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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Inviting Missus Lin Home

Call Missus Lin in Seattle with Lan: tell her the wedding is in October, ask her to come without fail, hear that she hasn't been back for forty-five years, offer to book her plane ticket, and hear her say she's coming back.

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THE STORY

A video call on Lan's phone one September evening, Missus Lin at her kitchen table in Seattle, where it is morning, Owen and Lan side by side at Master Chen's table.

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林 阿姨， 我们 十月 办 婚礼。lín āyí, wǒmen shíyuè bàn hūnlǐMissus Lin, we're having the wedding in October.
我 知道！ 在 村里 办 吗？wǒ zhīdào! zài cūnlǐ bàn maI know! Are you having it in the village?
对。 请 您 一定 来！duì. qǐng nín yídìng láiYes. Please, you must come! Politely.
四十五 年。sìshíwǔ niánforty-five years: falling, rising, then low
没 回去 了。méi huíqù lehaven't been back, and still so
我 四十五 年 没 回去 了。wǒ sìshíwǔ nián méi huíqù leI haven't been back for forty-five years.
我 去 接 您。wǒ qù jiē nínI'll come and pick you up. Politely.
机票 我们 订。jīpiào wǒmen dìngThe plane ticket, we'll book.
不 用， 我 自己 订。bú yòng, wǒ zìjǐ dìngNo need, I'll book it myself.
陈 师傅 天天 等 您。chén shīfu tiāntiān děng nínMaster Chen waits for you every day. Politely.

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