Family gatherings and hometowns: tell your story

How can you explain a gathering and invite a friend to join?

Family connections provide the cultural background. Distinguish Spring Festival practices from the fictional birthday and weekend lunch; hometowns and family arrangements can differ.

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Invite a friend to lunch

Fictional story · local synthesized audio, listening review pending

星期天，我想邀请你来我家。

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Translation and pinyin

I would like to invite you to my home on Sunday.

Xīngqītiān, wǒ xiǎng yāoqǐng nǐ lái wǒ jiā.

我的家人也在。

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Translation and pinyin

My family will be there too.

Wǒ de jiārén yě zài.

我们一起吃午饭。

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Translation and pinyin

We will have lunch together.

Wǒmen yīqǐ chī wǔfàn.

十二点，可以吗？

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Translation and pinyin

Is twelve o’clock all right?

Shí’èr diǎn, kěyǐ ma?

Supporting vocabulary

星期天 — Sunday

午饭 — lunch

邀请 · 家人 · 一起 ·

Find evidence in the text

Which day is the gathering?

What time does the host suggest?

Turn the story into an exchange

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Main scenario

Invite a friend to a gathering in Chinese

Lunch is at your home in the city on Sunday at twelve. Your family will be there and share hometown photos. This may be fictional.

Make a specific invitation, confirm time, and handle a later arrival and food preferences.

A different setting

Variation: invite a classmate to a museum

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Cultural notes and sources

UNESCO’s description of Spring Festival includes celebrating family reunions.

Spring festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of traditional new year

Is there a similar or different practice in your life? You may invent an example or skip this question.

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