🌍 Where are you from?

Unit 2 · People, family & numbers (HSK 1) · 8 min

Ask nationality: 你是哪国人？ "Which country are you from?" — 我是埃及人 "I am Egyptian." Country + 人 rén = a person from that country: 中国人 Chinese, 埃及人 Egyptian.

Words in this lesson

• 哪 (nǎ) — which
• 国 (guó) — country
• 人 (rén) — person; people
• 中国 (Zhōng guó) — China
• 埃及 (Āi jí) — Egypt
• 是 (shì) — to be; is

Project: Write three Chinese sentences giving your and two friends' nationalities.