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I assume a sentence that starts with or in Mandarin, something like the follows:

M: Where are you from?

F: Chicago.

M: No, I meant which city you are from in China?

M: Or did you grew up in US?

In these sentences, is it correct to just use 或 to start the sentence? I haven't seen the kind of usage of 或; I only saw it is used within the sentence, combining multiple related items.

M: 你是从哪里来的?

F: 芝加哥

M: 我的意思是你是从哪个中国城市来的?

M: 或,你在美国出生和长大了吗?

Or if it is not correct, how should I start the sentence with or?

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the translation is fine, but if you speak it, that's pretty weird.

colloquially, we use 還是說 or 或是說 or 或者說

So, the sentences are better to be spoken like this:

M:你從哪來的?

F:芝加哥

M:我的意思是你是從中國的哪個城市來的?

M:或者說,你是在美國土生土長的?

for the most part, we add few redundancies to sentence to make it fluent.

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  • Thanks. Is this the same in Mandarin?
    – Blaszard
    Commented Aug 3, 2016 at 0:52
  • It's already Mandrain.
    – TomN
    Commented Aug 3, 2016 at 1:00

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