With Susan staying with them for Chinese New Year, Miao's family feels a bit unsure how to act in front of the foreign guest.
There are different ways to ask someone his or her name. For people who are older than us, "nin" should be used, while "ni" should be used for younger people.
A tradition of Chinese New Year is to eat dumplings with family but there's also another tradition within the dumplings. Can you guess what it is?
Coins are traditionally incorporated into the Chinese New Year dumplings with a symbolic meaning.
Since she's planning on becoming independent from her family, Susan will be staying with Miao's family long-term.
The mystery of the dumplings is that the person who eats the lucky dumpling with the coin filling will be the luckiest person in the coming year.
Fighting jet lag is the worst. Miao stays up with Susan while she's attempting to adjust to the time change.
It's very easy to state the date in Chinese. All you need is the number plus the words "year," "month," and "day."
The family gets into an argument, debating whether Susan should sell Chinese food or Western food. Do you think that Susan is really trying to open a breakfast shop?
Chinese is very complicated because the same characters can have different meanings depending on the context, similar to homographs in English.
There are two ways of introducing people to others. One is more formal and the other is more causal.
A blind date is a traditional way to meet new people. In present day China, many couples are still formed in this way.
In order to escape the blind date, Mai Miao and Susan plan to call Xiao Wei so that he can have an excuse to leave early. What would you do to escape such an awkward event?
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