🇨🇳 Essential Chinese Phrases
Free cheat sheets for the Chineseyou'll actually use — each phrase with its English meaning, ready to say out loud. Learn them here, then practise them in a real spoken conversation on Yap.
The polite essentials — hello, thank you, sorry. Twelve phrases that set the tone of every conversation you'll ever have.
Cafés, bars and restaurants: how to order, ask for the bill, and compliment the cooking — the most-used phrases of any trip.
Where is…, left, right, straight ahead — the survival kit for finding your way (and being found when you're lost).
Prices, quantities, phone numbers and times all run on the first ten numbers — the fastest vocabulary win in any language.
Prices, sizes, paying by card or cash — how to buy things without pointing and hoping. Haggling optional.
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most.
Names, where you're from, and the magic words — 'more slowly, please'. The phrases that turn strangers into conversations.
Today, tomorrow, Monday, 'at what time?' — the words every plan, ticket and meeting depends on.
Reservations, keys, Wi-Fi passwords and breakfast times — everything you say at the front desk, sorted.
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Phrases stick when you say them.
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