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Taxi Chinese – Can We Make A Quick Stop To Eat?

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You’re in a cab after work and you want to ask the taxi driver if you can stop off quickly at a convenience store to grab a bite to eat and then continue on to your final destination.

I hopped into a local taxi here in China and asked the driver exactly how you’d say such a phrase. I really like asking local people here in China about local phrases because then you all know the local way to say it. It’s not textbook Chinese. It’s not university Chinese. It’s real-life Chinese, with accents and colloquialism. The Chinese you need to learn to connect with Chinese folk and have a more meaningful life here in China.

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Need Your Taxi Driver To Make Two Stops?

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Maybe you’ve mastered the “basic” phrases for communicating with taxi drivers. Possibly you’re confident in saying your address or directing them left or right when they get to a crossroads. You might even be happy asking which payment forms they accept and that you’ll be paying with AliPay.

Now, let’s build on those phrases. Today, we’ll learn how to ask your taxi driver to make two stops. Copy down the vocabulary. Save this video for later. This one is a game-changer. Are you ready to level up your Mandarin and impress those taxi drivers?

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