The Grandmother Enigma

About

"It says that Chinese people really care about family," Larry Page leafed through the consulting report.

For the last few months, impassioned youth from all over the country had been flooding the Internet with

impassioned pleas filled with references to their grandmothers. From its headquarters tracking online

sentiment, Google was sure somewhat strange was happening in the country, but what exactly?

Learning Chinese? This lesson is for Absolute Beginners to the Chinese language. Even if you don't

know any mandarin this lesson should be simple enough to get you started. So join us as we cover two

essentials: how to ask questions about time, and when and where to invoke the names of close friends

and relatives. We thrive on your comments and suggestions, so if you have any, please feel free to leave

a comment in the discussion space below or send us an email at service@popupchinese.com.

Sentences

你什么时候去中国?

nǐ shénme shíhòu qù Zhōngguó ?

When are you going to China?

我的票是...昨天的?

wǒ de piào shì . . . zuótiān de ?

My tickets are... yesterday?

啊?

a ?

Huh?

奶奶的...我错过飞机了。

nǎinai de . . . wǒ cuòguò fēijī le 。

Great grandmother... I missed my flight.

Vocabulary

我

wǒ

me

pronoun

你

nǐ

you

pronoun

什么时候

shénme shíhòu

when

phrase

什么

shénme

what

question

时候

shíhòu

time

noun

去

qù

to go

verb

来

lái

to come

verb

吃饭

chīfàn

to eat

verb

中国

Zhōngguó

China country 昨天 zuótiān yesterday

noun

飞机

fēijī

airplane

noun

奶奶

nǎinai

grandmother

noun

奶奶的

nǎinai de

goodness gracious

phrase