Your new Chinese friend Huang Xiaoming has invited you to his family home. See what you make of his introductions. There are five questions to check how much you know.

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Huang Xiaoming introduces you to a lady and says in Chinese: This is my daughter. Click on the phrase you think you've heard.
This is my son.
This is my mother.
This is my daughter.
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Huang Xiaoming's daughter introduces you to a man and says: Zhè shì wǒde zhàngfu. What does she mean?
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Huang Xiaoming has also got a son. Do you know the word for 'son'?
mum
son
girlfriend
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You then ask his son if he is married. He answers Wǒ méi jiéhūn. What does that mean?
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What is ai'rén, literally a 'love person' in Chinese?
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You got out of 5 right the first time!


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