answer: #Person2# has been in China for four months. When #Person2# first arrived in Guangzhou, #Person2# felt the tone used when the Chinese bargain was a shouting match. #Person1# tells #Person2# it is quite natural to Chinese.
documents: #Person1#: You have been here for how long? Four months now?
  #Person2#: Yeah, about.
  #Person1#: Do you know Chinese better now?
  #Person2#: 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.
  #Person1#: Oh, yeah. Many Chinese like to bargain. It happens almost everywhere.
  #Person2#: 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.
  #Person1#: A shouting match? You ' re so funny. You must be exaggerating. I don ' t believe it.
  #Person2#: I am not exaggerating at all. I ' m telling you the truth. That was how I felt at that time.
  #Person1#: Yes, perhaps. Chinese usually don ' t notice that sort of thing. Maybe it ' s quite natural to us.
  #Person2#: Yes, absolutely true.