This document summarizes a family's trip to China over the course of a week. They visited several cities including Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing. They went to restaurants, shops, tourist sites like Tiger Hill and the Gardens, and a soccer game. The mother got sick one day and visited a doctor. The trip helped introduce the reader to some basic aspects of Chinese language, culture, and diversity of the different ethnic groups in China.

1. By
Nick Franks

2. This is a story about a trip to Zhongguo to Present
some basic Hanyu he Zhongguoren culture. It will
introduce the reader to a small part of Zhongguo and
its natural beauty and Diversity.

3. Xingqiyi
Wo will spend zhege xingqi in Zhongguo with wo de jiating he wo
de pengyoumen.Women zuo feiji to Zhongguo. Women arrived in
Shanghai. Shanghai was hen da and had a hen da renkou. Soon we
zuo che to Suzhou where we would stay.

4. Women de pengyou were so
gaoxing to see us.

5. Xingqier
Jintian Women went to zhe ge fandian.
Fu wu yuan: huan ying guanglin.
Fu wu yuan:qingwen jiwei?
Baba: liu wei
Fu wu yuan: zhe shi caidan.
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Fu wu yuan: Nin yao dian shenme yinliao?
Baba: er bei shui, yi bei chengzhi, he san bei lutepijiu.
Fu wu yuan: Qing shao deng.
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Fu wu yuan: Nin chi shenme?
Baba: si wan mifan, er wan miantiao, san fen laziji, yi fen
suan la tang, er fen ma po dou fu.
Fu wu yuan: Qing shao deng.
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Baba: Yigong duoshaoqian?
Fu wu yuan: Yigon yibai ershi san kuai.
Fu wu yuan: Xiexie, zaijian.
Baba: zaijian.

6. Jintian Women ye went to shangdian
Mama: Dui bu bu qi, Qing gei wo caimai zhe ge qunzi he
kuzi. Duo shao qian?
Shangdian worker: Qunzi yi bai shiwu kuai. Kuzi qishi
kuai.
Mama: Zhe qunzi you dianr gui. Zhe shi yi bai ba shi wu
kuai.
Shangdian worker: Xie xie.
Mama: Zaijian.
Shangdian worker: Zaijian.

7. Wo: Nizenme le? Xingqisan
Mama: Wo sheng bing le.
Wo: Ni should qu yiyuan.
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Secretay: Ni hao, ni yao shenme?
Mama: Wo sheng bing le, wo yao see yihuan.
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Yisheng: Ni hao, nizenme le?
Mama: Wo touteng he duziteng.
Yisheng: Shi shenmen kaishi de?
Mama: Jintian
Yisheng: Ni he fashao. Ni xu yao. Zhe shi ni de yao ytian sanci yici liang pian.
Qingqu jiafeichu jiao fei.
Mama: Yigong duoshao qian?
Yigong ba shi san kuai.

8. Jintian women visited Tiger Hill Pogoda he Gardens.
Somebody asked to have a heying with us.
Nuren: Dui bu qi, nizhao shang ma?
Women: meiwenti
Nuren: xie xie
Women: Bukeqi

9. Xingqisi
Wo de pengyou jiao Michael. Michael de naozhong
broke. Wo wanted to get Michael a liwu haishi wo de
mama told me in Zhongguo it was not good to give
somebody a naozhong because zhong means end,
finnish, or death in hanyu. Suoyi instead wo gave ta
qiaokeli.

10. Jintian women went to a zuqiu bisai. Women went at
san dian ban. It was a yusai. It was michael de xuexiao
dui a shanghai xuexiao.

11. Xingqiwu
Jintian women zuo huoche to
Beijing. Beijing you duo piaoliang
jingdian.

12. Wo men went to a luguan haishi, women
de re shui qi huaile.
Mama: Ni hao, wo de re shui qi huaile.
Receptionist: ni de fang jian hao shi shenme?
Mama: yao er ba.
Receptionist: wo hui ren qu ni de fanjian
Mama: Xiexie.
Receptionist: Bu ke qi

13. Xingqiliu
Jintian wo have to leave zhongguo. Women caimai
feijipiao. Women will qi feiji from Beijing to niuyue.
Wo xihuan Zhongguo and miss it a lot.

14. Zhongguo you wushiliu minzu. Hanzu shi the main
one with 1,225,932,600 members. Some larger shaoshu
minzu are
Zangzu, Qiangzu, zhuangzu, manzu, mianzu. The
different minzu you duo different
clothing, art, religious practices, he social structures.

15. Wo hope ni found wo de story you yi si and helpful in
introducing hanyu he zhongguoren culture.