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Taxi Chinese Tutor
Monday, December 27, 2004-8:09 AM
Taking a taxi isn't only a good way to get around. It's also a good place to practice Chinese.
My driver today told me some things that you might want to know if you're interested in becoming a taxi driver in China.
Like the other taxi drivers I talked to, he doesn't originally come from Guangzhou. He came to Guangzhou from some place near Shantou (another city in Guangdong) 15 years ago.
In China, it's a lot more common to talk about salaries. He asked about mine and told me he works about ten hours a day and makes six to seven thousand RMB a month. (That's about eight hundred dollars.) Of that, he spends a little less than half on him (and his family?).
In the end, I paid 30 RMB for a 30 minute cab ride and a 30 minute Chinese lesson.
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