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Asthma Attack: Emergency Department Consultation
Nurse (speaking English) and Mother (speaking Afrikaans) talk through “Asthma Attack: Emergency Department Consultation”. You interpret both ways — English into Afrikaans, and Afrikaans into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Full transcript
Can you tell me exactly what time Pieter's breathing became difficult this morning, before you brought him to Joondalup Health Campus?
Dit het vanoggend om sesuur begin. Ek het hom twee sluke van sy blou pomp gegee, maar dit het glad nie gehelp nie, sy asemhaling het net erger geword.
Has he experienced asthma attacks like this before, and is he currently on any daily preventer medication prescribed by his regular doctor?
Ja, hy het al van kleins af asma, maar hy gebruik nie elke dag 'n voorkomende pomp nie — die dokter het net die blou noodpomp voorgeskryf.
We're going to give him four puffs of salbutamol through a spacer right now, then monitor his oxygen levels closely for twenty minutes.
Wat presies is 'n spacer? Ons het nog nooit een gebruik nie, by die huis het ons net die pompie self.
A spacer is simply a plastic chamber that helps the medicine reach deep into his lungs; without it, a lot of the dose is wasted in his mouth.
Sal julle vandag een vir ons gee, of moet ons dit self by die apteek gaan koop?
I'll give you one spacer to take home today, and refer Pieter to your GP for a written asthma action plan within the next week.
Sal die afspraak by die GP baie kos? Ons het nie bykomende privaat versekering nie, net Medicare.
If you're registered with Medicare, the GP consultation should be bulk-billed, meaning you won't have to pay anything out of pocket.
Dankie, dit stel my baie gerus. Ons sal definitief 'n afspraak maak sodra Pieter uit die hospitaal ontslaan word.
Terms in this dialogue that cost marks
CCL is marked on information transferred. These Australian terms have no direct word in most test languages — get one wrong and the segment's information is gone.
- asthma action planVertaal as 'asma-aksieplan' — dit is duidelik en direk verstaanbaar.
- medicareSê net 'Medicare' soos dit is; dit is 'n eiename en het geen Afrikaanse vertaling nie.
- out of pocketSê 'eie bydrae' of 'geld wat uit eie sak betaal word'.
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Practice dialogue written to the CCL specification (two speakers, segments of 35 words or fewer, about 300 words). It is a practice text, not a NAATI test paper, and the AI score is this site's estimate, not a NAATI result. All Afrikaans dialogues · All languages