Hear the story of Anthony as he explores the China/Mongolia border
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| Anthony: Hi I am Anthony. |
| Lanzi: 大家好，我是Lanzi。 |
| Anthony: And the train has just dropped me off in a little town on the Chinese Mongolian border called Erlian. |
| Lanzi: 二连 |
| Anthony: And I had an empty stomach. So I heard that this town has really good dumplings. |
| Lanzi: 饺子。 |
| Anthony: I ran into a couple of people from 宁夏 |
| Lanzi: 哦，宁夏来的人。 |
| Anthony: And they were really into drinking games. |
| Lanzi: 哈哈，他们很爱猜拳。 |
| Anthony: And you are going to find drinking games played basically everywhere in China, isn’t that right? |
| Lanzi: 对，对。非常流行。 |
| Anthony: And what do Chinese people usually drink when they go out? |
| Lanzi: 呃，他们喜欢喝二锅头。 |
| Anthony: Okay yeah and this stuff is pretty heavy. |
| Lanzi: 对，至少有40度。 |
| Anthony: Yeah at least 40 proof alcohol. |
| Lanzi: 诶，你也在猜拳。 |
| Anthony: Yeah I am getting involved in the festivities playing a game called 15-20. |
| Lanzi: 啊，十五二十。 |
| Anthony: That’s right. |
| Lanzi: 诶，你输了吗？ |
| Anthony: Yeah I lost. So the next morning I get up luckily without a hangover and I got to get to the border as fast as I can. |
| Lanzi: 嗯，赶去。 |
| Anthony: And there is two ways that you can get to the border. One is by taxi. |
| Lanzi: 打的。 |
| Anthony: Which will cost you about 10 quay each way. |
| Lanzi: 啊，十块钱。 |
| Anthony: And for the more frugal travelers, you can take the city bus for 1 quay. |
| Lanzi: 好便宜啊。 |
| Anthony: Yeah very cheap and actually it was a nice view and it was a nice ride out there. |
| Lanzi: 诶，还有彩虹。 |
| Anthony: Yeah this was the very welcoming border crossing out in the middle of nowhere and… |
| Lanzi: 真的什么都没有。 |
| Anthony: And it was kind of interesting to see that this border was really heavily fortified. |
| Lanzi: 对，诶，还有军人。 |
| Anthony: Yeah they have a couple of soldiers. I think they are playing the game of soccer, I don’t know. Well join us next week as I cross into Mongolian territory and make sure to visit us at chineseclass101.com, sign up for your free lifetime subscription. I am Anthony. |
| Lanzi: 我是Lanzi，下周见。 |
| Anthony: Bye bye. |
| Lanzi: Bye. |
| 二锅头 |
| 猜拳 |
| 打的 |
| 干冷 |
| 彩虹 |
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