Food & Health Card 10 of 12
Please Write It Down
The answer is getting complicated — a bus number, a price, an address. Written characters beat any amount of gesturing.
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您好，我的中文不太好。麻烦您把地址和价钱写在纸上，可以吗？我怕记不住，非常感谢！
In English
Hello, my Chinese isn't very good. Could you write the address and the price down on paper, please? I'm afraid I won't remember it. Thank you so much!
Pinyin
Nín hǎo, wǒ de zhōngwén bú tài hǎo. Máfan nín bǎ dìzhǐ hé jiàqián xiě zài zhǐ shàng, kěyǐ ma? Wǒ pà jì bu zhù, fēicháng gǎnxiè!
Good to know
No paper? People will happily type it into your notes app instead — hold out your phone with this card. Numbers are exactly what spoken English fails at here.
Want the full background? Read the survival Chinese guide .