洗手间在哪里？
Where is the bathroom?
Day 5 of 57 · Week 1 · Mandarin operating system
Clock time and dates
Say three appointment times, today/tomorrow, and December 1. Read an invented departure time from a screen.
Start with the guided teaching
Learn the number-building rule so you can decode new amounts instead of memorizing every price.
Above ten, put the number of tens before 十, then the remaining units after it. 二十五 = two tens + five. 三十五 = three tens + five. 四 sì and 十 shí sound different; pay close attention.
Read a price, hear a number — complete guided explanation
Do the work in five passes
- Listen and pronounce — 25 min · shadow 6 phrases; compare a recording.
- Read and recognize — 25 min · complete the guided teaching, then read today’s words.
- Build and speak — 25 min · build a guided request; then make 10 variations.
- Solve a situation — 25 min · practice both sides, then hide the hints.
- Retrieve and review — 20–80 min · due review, quizzes, and a spoken recap.
Completion records effort; quiz results measure recognition. Neither proves conversational fluency. Use the interactive trainer for review scheduling and saved progress.
Today’s sentence machinery
Where is it?
Place + 在哪里 / 在哪儿. The unknown location stays where a location would normally go.
Bathroom + located + where?
Your language for today
六
Six
6
七
Seven
7
八
Eight
8
九
Nine
9
十
Ten
10
十一
Eleven
ten + one
二十
Twenty
two + ten
二十五
Twenty-five
two tens + five
Practice the situation
First conversation
A person speaks quickly after you introduce yourself.
你好！你是哪里人？
Hello! Where are you from?
A useful response
我是美国人。
Answer the country question.
你会说中文吗？
Do you speak Chinese?
A useful response
我只会说一点中文。
Say you speak only a little.
好的。你想去哪里？
Okay. Where do you want to go?
A useful response
请说慢一点。
Practice repairing the conversation before answering.
Outside the trainer: spend 10–20 minutes repeating these exchanges with a Mandarin speaker when available. Ask them to change one reply so you must listen. Fixed audio and scenarios cannot reproduce every real conversation.