Chinese for family
In-laws, grandparents, a partner's childhood in another language. You want the dinner table to include you.
Family Chinese is warm, fast and full of food words. Learn the names people call each other, the dishes on the table, and one story you can actually read aloud.
Your first ten minutes
- 1 Start with the family words
Baba, mama, and the whole word family that grows from each one. Watch the strokes draw themselves.
- 2 Read My Family out loud
Ten sentences, every word inside Band 1. Grandma will be delighted; mildly amused counts too.
- 3 Read the tea-or-milk standoff
A ten-line dialogue about the politest fight in China: who pours what for whom. Be armed.
Dinner-table openers
妈妈做的菜很好吃。 Māma zuò de cài hěn hǎochī. Mom's cooking is delicious.
我家有四口人。 Wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén. There are four people in my family.
再来一碗！ Zài lái yì wǎn! One more bowl!
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