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Dialing a Nonlocal Phone Number

Dialing a Nonlocal Phone Number
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ID: 1582 Intermediate
If you're like us, you know a lot of people, and you make a fair amount of calls with your cell phone. But every once in a while, you'll get this annoying recording telling you the call won't go through because it's a "nonlocal number." Fortunately there's an easy solution. Learn about it in this Chinese lesson.
Dilu,John
Dialing a Nonlocal Phone Number
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
糟了 zāo le 'oh crap'
快......了 kuài ... le soon
没电 méidiàn to be out of power
把 bǎ to take
糟了我的手机快没电了
zāo le 糟了wǒ de 我的shǒujī 手机kuài 快méidiàn 没电le 了
Oh, crap. My phone is almost out of power.
你要打电话吗可以用办公室的电话打
nǐ 你yào 要dǎ diànhuà 打电话ma 吗kěyǐ 可以yòng 用bàngōngshì 办公室de 的diànhuà 电话dǎ 打
Do you want to make a call? You can call from the office phone.
嗯好的我把号码找出来135
ng4 嗯hǎo de 好的wǒ 我bǎ 把hàomǎ 号码zhǎo 找chūlai 出来yāo 1sān 3wǔ 5
Yeah, OK. I'll get the number out. 135...
对不起您拨的是外地移动用户请在号码前加拨0
duìbuqǐ 对不起nín 您bō 拨de 的shì 是wàidì 外地Yídòng 移动yònghù 用户qǐng 请zài 在hàomǎ 号码qián 前jiā 加bō 拨líng 0
I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is a nonlocal China Mobile number. Please add an additional '0' before the number.
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