S01E19【ENG】💫 Bonjour Paris! 🇫🇷 Essential Mandarin for Travelers

🇫🇷 Bonjour Paris! Ready to explore the City of Lights—using Mandarin? 🗼✨Planning a trip to Paris or just love travel-themed language learning? In this episode, we take you through a perfect day in Paris, step by step, with essential Mandarin phrases for transportation, sightseeing, cafés, shopping, and hotels! 🚇🥐🛍You'll learn:✔️ How to buy a metro ticket and navigate Paris like a pro 🚆✔️ Order a croissant and coffee at a café ☕️✔️ Ask for discounts while shopping 🛍✔️ Check into a hotel and get around like a local 🏨🎧 Plus, we cover an important grammar point of the day and practical sentence examples so you can start using these phrases right away!💡 Check the episode description for today’s key vocabulary and grammar—it will help you review!📚 Grammar of the Day: How to Ask for Locations & Directions🛤 句型:…在哪里?(…zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is …?This is a simple but essential question structure to ask for directions or locations.🔹 Structure:👉 [Place] + 在哪里?(zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is [place]?🔹 Examples:地铁站在哪里?(Dìtiězhàn zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is the metro station? 🚇咖啡馆在哪里?(Kāfēiguǎn zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is the café? ☕️博物馆在哪里?(Bówùguǎn zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is the museum? 🏛酒店在哪里?(Jiǔdiàn zài nǎlǐ?) – Where is the hotel? 🏨💡 Tip: You can replace 在哪里? with 怎么去…?(zěnme qù …?) to ask "How do I get to…?"请问,怎么去卢浮宫?(Qǐngwèn, zěnme qù Lúfúgōng?) – Excuse me, how do I get to the Louvre? 🖼📌 Key Vocabulary & Sentence Examples🚆 Transportation地铁 (dìtiě) – Metro请问,地铁站在哪里?(Qǐngwèn, dìtiězhàn zài nǎlǐ?) – Excuse me, where is the metro station?地铁站 (dìtiězhàn) – Metro station我要去地铁站。(Wǒ yào qù dìtiězhàn.) – I want to go to the metro station.票 (piào) – Ticket我要一张地铁票。(Wǒ yào yī zhāng dìtiě piào.) – I need a metro ticket.🏛 Sightseeing & Museums博物馆 (bówùguǎn) – Museum请问,这个博物馆几点开门?(Qǐngwèn, zhège bówùguǎn jǐ diǎn kāimén?) – What time does this museum open?☕️ Food & Café Culture咖啡馆 (kāfēiguǎn) – Café我们去咖啡馆喝咖啡吧!(Wǒmen qù kāfēiguǎn hē kāfēi ba!) – Let’s go to a café for coffee!可颂 (kěsòng) – Croissant我要一个可颂和一杯咖啡。(Wǒ yào yīgè kěsòng hé yībēi kāfēi.) – I’d like a croissant and a coffee.🛍 Shopping & Discounts购物 (gòuwù) – Shopping我喜欢在巴黎购物!(Wǒ xǐhuān zài Bālí gòuwù!) – I love shopping in Paris!打折 (dǎzhé) – Discount这个有打折吗?(Zhège yǒu dǎzhé ma?) – Is this on sale?🏨 Hotels & Accommodation酒店 (jiǔdiàn) – Hotel你好,我有一个酒店预订。(Nǐ hǎo, wǒ yǒu yīgè jiǔdiàn yùdìng.) – Hello, I have a hotel reservation.

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