🇫🇷 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.