[speaker001:] You have been here for how long? Four months now?
[speaker002:] Yeah, about.
[speaker001:] Do you know Chinese better now?
[speaker002:] Oh, definitely. I remember, when I first arrived in Guangzhou, my girlfriend was haggling with a sales clerk over the price of a mobile phone.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah. Many Chinese like to bargain. It happens almost everywhere.
[speaker002:] I mean, I understand that. But the speed of the conversation got faster and faster, until it seemed to me that they would fight. My perception of the tone was that it was a violent shouting match. The truth was that it was a perfectly normal conversation.
[speaker001:] A shouting match? You 're so funny. You must be exaggerating. I don 't believe it.
[speaker002:] I am not exaggerating at all. I 'm telling you the truth. That was how I felt at that time.
[speaker001:] Yes, perhaps. Chinese usually don 't notice that sort of thing. Maybe it 's quite natural to us.
[speaker002:] Yes, absolutely true.