Beginner - Bargaining and Money Matters
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English - April 20, 2011 01:00 - 8 minutes - 229 KB - ★★★★ - 34 ratingsLanguage Learning Education Courses learn chinese learn mandarin chinese mandarin china chinese podcast language beijing hsk shanghai Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Now that you've lived in Hong Kong for a day or two, you might feel the need to venture out to buy some essentials like food, clothing and water. In other countries this would be a pretty routine affair. Go down to the corner store, flash that winning smile and walk out with your arms full of free goods. Sadly, in Hong Kong's relentlessly capitalist society, people expect you to pay.And that's where this lesson comes in. Regardless of whether you're haggling ten bucks off the price of that Dongguan shirt or trying to save twenty cents on your next purchase of life-giving mango juice, you'll need to know how to talk about money in Cantonese. Which is why we spend our lesson today covering the money, learning how to talk about prices, and then demanding lower prices repeatedly and insistently, although we leave the yelling and screaming up to you.