Everybody in the House

🎒 What you need

• the shared phone, about 15 minutes
• your actual family

✋ Do this

1. Open the audio list and listen to the five family words. Notice that the second syllable is always softer and shorter.
2. Repeat each one five times until the light second syllable feels natural rather than forced.
3. Point at each person in your household as you say their Chinese word aloud. Bàba. Māma. Gēge. Jiějie.
4. Record yourself saying 我家有五个人 — wǒ jiā yǒu wǔ ge rén — 'there are five people in my family', changing five to your real number.
5. Draw your family on paper, one stick figure each, and write the Chinese word under each figure. Stick it on the wall.
6. Teach 妈妈 to your actual mother. She will remember it.

💡 Why it works

🔥 Challenge

📖 New words