💼 Lesson 9 — Talk about your job and make plans with friends!
Speak Chinese Today
An Interactive Mandarin Course for Beginners
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Chapter Nine

Work & Plans 💼
你做什么工作?

Two essential skills: tell people what you do for work, and make plans to meet up. Both come up in every real Chinese conversation.

💼 6 Jobs 📅 Making Plans 💬 2 Dialogues ⏱ ~12 min
💼 Jobs

What Do You Do? — 你做什么工作?

我是
Wǒ shì
I am a...
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Click 我是 first,
then click a job card below 👇
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Formula: 「我是 + job」= I am a ___. Click 我是 first, then the job — you're already speaking Chinese sentences! 我是医生 (I'm a doctor), 我是老师 (I'm a teacher), 我是学生 (I'm a student).
🏢 Vocab

Office & Work Life

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The「很」(hěn) pattern: Put before an adjective = "very [adj]". 「很忙」= very busy, 「很累」= very tired, 「很好」= very good, 「很贵」= very expensive. It's the most useful pattern in Mandarin — learn this and you can describe almost anything.
💬 Dialogues

Two Everyday Conversations

↑ Click each tab — Play All plays the visible one
Plays the conversation in the active tab
🎯 Practice

Shadowing Drill

🔁 Say it out loud!

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