你会说英语吗？
Do you speak English?
Day 23 of 57 · Week 4 · Actual conversation
Family and home
Say where you live and who is in your family. Use 的 to express possession.
Start with the guided teaching
Move from a memorized introduction to recognizing the question that comes next.
A question word replaces the missing information. 你是美国人 is “you are American.” 你是哪里人 asks “you are a person from where?” Keep the word 哪里 in that slot.
Introduce yourself and catch a question — 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
Can: 会 / 能 / 可以
会 often means learned ability; 能 practical capability; 可以 permission or acceptability. Their uses overlap.
Can you do this learned skill?
Your language for today
你做什么工作？
What work do you do?
you + do + what + work
我是电工。
I'm an electrician.
I + am + electrician
我以前做项目管理。
I used to work in project management.
I + before + do + project + management
我现在在家照顾孩子。
I'm at home looking after my child/children now.
I + now + at home + care for + children
Practice the situation
Pay for a purchase
Try payment, discover a failure, find another option.
一共二十五块。
Twenty-five yuan in total.
A useful response
可以用微信支付吗？
Ask whether WeChat payment is accepted.
可以，请扫码。
Yes, please scan the code.
A useful response
在哪里扫码？
Ask where to scan.
支付没有成功。
The payment did not succeed.
A useful response
可以用现金吗？
Ask whether cash is accepted.
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.