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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4708146, member: 225"] Looks like the Terra Cotta Warriors Museum in Xian, China. My son taught at a university in China for awhile and while traveling around the country with him, we visited the museum. My son taught me a bunch of survival Chinese, including asking how much something cost. No matter what they said the price was, I was to respond with the Chinese equivalent of "too expensive!" Then the negotiating would begin. Outside the museum, we stopped in a small souvenir place and I found something I wanted. I asked the price (in Chinese). The guy told me and I emphatically said (in Chinese) "too expensive". The guy looked at my son, smiled, and then to me in perfect English said "OK, how much?" [/QUOTE]