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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Goodbye at the Gate

See your parents off at the airport with Lan: wish them a safe journey, report that your mother can't bear to leave, hear come again next year, relay your father's charge to take good care of Lan, and say even your dad is crying.

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THE STORY

The departures gate at Hangzhou's airport early on a Thursday morning, two suitcases heavier with tea, and four people who don't want to say goodbye.

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叔叔， 阿姨， 一路 平安！shūshu, āyí, yílù píng'ānUncle, Auntie, safe journey!
谢谢， 陈兰！xièxie, chénlánThank you, Lan!
到 了 给 我 打 电话。dào le gěi wǒ dǎ diànhuàCall me when you've arrived.
他们 几 点 的 飞机？tāmen jǐ diǎn de fēijīWhat time is their plane?
舍不得 走。shěbude zǒucan't bear to leave
我 妈 说 她 舍不得 走。wǒ mā shuō tā shěbude zǒuMy mum says she can't bear to leave.
我 也 舍不得。 明年 再 来！wǒ yě shěbude, míngnián zài láiI can't bear it either. Come again next year!
谢谢！ 明年 见！xièxie! míngnián jiànThank you! See you next year!
好好 照顾 你。hǎohāo zhàogù nǐtake good care of you
他 让 我 好好 照顾 你。tā ràng wǒ hǎohāo zhàogù nǐHe tells me to take good care of you.

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