How to Talk About Age in Mandarin 🧧｜5-min Mandarin Lesson for Beginners

Описание: How do people talk about age in Mandarin — without directly asking? 🧧

In this episode, Mindy and Joeru break down the most natural ways to ask and answer age-related questions in Mandarin — including a very Taiwanese habit: using zodiac signs to roughly guess someone’s age.

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🎯 Today’s Topic:
Talking about age, birth year, and zodiac signs in everyday Mandarin

🗝 Key Sentence:
我屬馬。
(Wǒ shǔ mǎ.)
– I’m a Horse. / I was born in the Year of the Horse.

🗣 Listener Challenge:
「你屬什麼？」If you’re not sure, look up the zodiac animal for your birth year and give it a try!

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