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Topic: What do you think about...
Name: Takako Nishimura
Class: Oral Communication Strategies 5
Date: 11/24/2000
Takako: Good morning.
Yasuko: Good morning.
T: What do you think about Internet shopping?
Y: Ah, Internet shopping. To tell the truth, I have never bought anything.
T: Through… BY using (the) Internet?
Y: Yeah.
T: Me, TOO (either). But why DIDN'T (don't) you use Internet shopping?
Y: I think it's DOUBTFUL (suspicious). Have you...?
T: I haven't bought anything on (the) Internet because I worried about…I'm worrying that that might cause some problems.
Y: Yeah, we have many problems.
T: For example, even if we pay FOR the bill, BUT we can't get the goods (sometimes).
Y: I'm THINK (thinking) of IT (that).
T: I think (the) Internet is so useful when I try to find some information for research papers or reports, (or) something like that. But sometimes I can't trust the Internet.
Y: Me, too. I think THE famous COMPANY IS (companies are) TRUSTED (trustworthy).
T: Really?
Y: Yeah, for example, Yoji-ya.
T : Yoji-ya? I don't know that.
Y: You know, the paper which…
T: Yeah, I remember that.
Y : Or VICTORIAS SECRETE (Victoria's Secret). It (is) a maker FOR (of) underwear. Their underwear is very, very cute and cheap. But we don't have the shop in Japan. In Yoji-ya, we can get…
T: Kyoto?
Y: Yeah, IN only (in) Kyoto. The Internet is useful for such (a) shop.
T: But when we buy something on the Internet, we must put our credit card number or bank number, password, on the Internet. So I'm afraid.
Y: Maybe we can choose which…when we get the goods, then.
T: After we get the goods?
Y: So you can use the postman, not postman…
T: Maybe you mean the worker FOR (at) a post office.
Y: Yeah, post office or…
T: Delivery service?
Y: Yamato Takkubin or something like that. Maybe you can choose (which one you want). I have never done it. I don't know but maybe you can choose...
T: I wanna TALKING (talk) about (the) Internet more, more. I also... I often use the CITE OF (site for) fortune telling.
Y: Oh really.
T: Have you USE THE (used a) fortune telling CITE (site)?
Y: Not. No.
T: No? Don't you like fortune telling?
Y: I don't, maybe. I use it for e-mail.
T: Oh really?
Y: I always use it…
T: Oh, it's time. So thank you very much.
Y: Thank you.
