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Daniel Cavanaugh Xi Yan

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Start: Daniel: Your English鈥�

Xi: So.

Daniel: I didn鈥檛 realize, until the end of the meeting, that you鈥� (Silence) Speak. English.

Xi: Ah! I, um, live. Outside. China. For am, six year, ah, no, month. Six month. Outside. Therefore, ah. Study.

[... .. ...]

End: Xi: English teacher, yes! Telling, I saying you no. No deal. (Xi gets up to leave. Daniel begins dialing his cell. Then:)

Daniel: But--the food hasn鈥檛 arrived yet. Food?

Xi: Oh, I no order. <Thumbs-up!>

Daniel: <Thumbs-up!> But why? Why are you. Helping me? Why? (Pause.)

Xi: Use at your own risk.

Hwang, David Henry, Chinglish, Theatre Communications Group, 2012, pp. 39-48.

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