Do you have trouble understanding what the announcement says when you ride the bullet train in China?
In today’s sentence, we learn how to say “Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard this train”, which is usually the first sentence in every train announcement.
This is the accompanying blog post for our master lesson “Train Announcement“.
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