🇨🇳 Chinese (Mandarin)
中文 • Han
Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)
Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.
What matters most
您 is polite ‘you’; polite words/phrases are common.
- When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
- Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
你好吗？
Nǐ hǎo ma
How are you?
您好。
Nín hǎo
Hello (polite).
你会说英语吗？
Nǐ huì shuō Yīngyǔ ma
Do you speak English?
Mini challenge
Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
1/6 • Score: 0
Which sentence matches “How are you?”?