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Day 51 of 57 · Week 8 · China simulation II

Your room has no hot water

Explain no hot water and ask for a room change. Repeat the room number you hear.

Start with the guided teaching

Tell success from failure, then ask for an alternative way to pay.

支付 is payment. The following word tells you its result: 成功 = success; 失败 = failure. Seeing 支付 alone is not proof that you have paid.

Read a payment screen and recover — 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

A little and again

一点 softens a quantity or adjective. 一下 makes an action brief. 再 asks for another attempt; 一遍 is a complete repeat.

请再说一遍。

Qǐng zài shuō yī biàn.

Please say it again.

Please + again + say + one complete time.

Your language for today

我的包丢了。

Wǒ de bāo diū le.

My bag is missing.

my + bag + lost + now

我的护照丢了。

Wǒ de hùzhào diū le.

My passport is missing.

my + passport + lost + now

我找不到我的孩子。

Wǒ zhǎo bu dào wǒ de háizi.

I can't find my child.

I + search + cannot reach + my + child

请帮我报警。

Qǐng bāng wǒ bàojǐng.

Please help me contact the police.

please + help me + report to police

请叫救护车。

Qǐng jiào jiùhùchē.

Please call an ambulance.

please + call + ambulance

我需要医生。

Wǒ xūyào yīshēng.

I need a doctor.

I + need + doctor

医院在哪里?

Yīyuàn zài nǎlǐ?

Where is the hospital?

hospital + at + where

药店在哪里?

Yàodiàn zài nǎlǐ?

Where is the pharmacy?

medicine shop + at + where

我不舒服。

Wǒ bù shūfu.

I don't feel well.

I + not + comfortable

这里疼。

Zhèlǐ téng.

It hurts here.

here + hurts

Practice the situation

Get to know someone

Move past greetings into a real exchange.

你做什么工作?

Nǐ zuò shénme gōngzuò?

What work do you do?

A useful response

我是电工。

Use the electrician example, or say your own true answer aloud.

你有什么爱好?

Nǐ yǒu shénme àihào?

What hobbies do you have?

A useful response

我对科学感兴趣。

Talk about your interest in science.

我也喜欢科学。

Wǒ yě xǐhuan kēxué.

I like science too.

A useful response

我们可以加微信吗?

Ask to connect on WeChat.

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.