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Day 29 of 57 · Week 5 · Handle problems

Check in and show documents

Check in with a reservation, passport and two-night stay. Ask your room number and checkout time.

Start with the guided teaching

Recognize reception, elevators and room numbers, then ask where to go.

Find the whole label first. 电梯 is elevator; 楼梯 is stairs. Both contain 梯 but the first character changes the kind. On room signs, 楼 means floor and 室 means room; do not infer a floor just from a room number.

Find your way inside a hotel — complete guided explanation

Do the work in five passes

  1. Listen and pronounce — 25 min · shadow 6 phrases; compare a recording.
  2. Read and recognize — 25 min · complete the guided teaching, then read today’s words.
  3. Build and speak — 25 min · build a guided request; then make 10 variations.
  4. Solve a situation — 25 min · practice both sides, then hide the hints.
  5. 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

Experience: 过

Verb + 过 means an experience has occurred. Contrast an experienced event with a specific completed event.

我去过北京。

Wǒ qù guo Běijīng.

I have been to Beijing.

I + go + experience + Beijing.

Your language for today

我有预订。

Wǒ yǒu yùdìng.

I have a reservation.

I + have + reservation

我想办理入住。

Wǒ xiǎng bànlǐ rùzhù.

I'd like to check in.

I + want + process + check-in

这是我的护照。

Zhè shì wǒ de hùzhào.

Here is my passport.

this + is + my + passport

住两晚。

Zhù liǎng wǎn.

I'm staying two nights.

stay + two + nights

有空房间吗？

Yǒu kōng fángjiān ma?

Do you have a room available?

have + empty + room + question

我要一个单人间。

Wǒ yào yī ge dānrénjiān.

I'd like a single room.

I + want + one + measure + single-person room

Practice the situation

Taxi ride

Give the destination, ask the time, then stop.

您去哪儿？

Nín qù nǎr?

Where are you going?

A useful response

请送我去这个地址。

Show the address and request the destination.

好的。

Hǎo de.

Okay.

A useful response

大概多久？

Ask the approximate travel time.

到了。

Dào le.

We have arrived.

A useful response

请在这里停车。

Ask to stop here.

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.