# Who it’s for

URL: https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/
Updated: 2026-11-05

One page for each situation, such as a business trip, a first holiday, a stopover, a semester abroad or meeting a partner’s family.

For each situation: what usually happens in China, the Chinese phrases you will need, and which parts of the game practise them.

## Pages

- [Chinese for your first trip to China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/first-trip-to-china/): Ordering at a breakfast stall, asking for no chili, paying by phone, finding the metro and buying a train ticket.
- [Chinese for a visa-free stopover in China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/visa-free-transit-china/): A short stay between flights: showing your passport, leaving the airport, one night in a hotel and a day out.
- [Chinese for a family trip to China with kids](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/china-trip-with-kids/): Mild food, restrooms, drinks, photo requests, a tired child, and describing someone in a crowd.
- [Chinese for travelling solo in China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/solo-travel-in-china/): Eating alone, sharing a table, a lost phone, a stomach ache, and being asked “by yourself?”.
- [Chinese for a business trip to China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/business-trip-to-china/): The ride from the airport, hotel check-in, paying, small talk with drivers and toasts at dinner.
- [Chinese for teaching English in China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/teaching-english-in-china/): Your school works in English, but daily life outside it is in Chinese: questions from strangers, children, errands and evenings out.
- [Chinese for studying abroad in China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/study-abroad-in-china/): For exchange and degree students: the everyday conversations outside class, from ordering milk tea to making friends.
- [When you know Chinese from an app but freeze when you speak](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/freeze-when-speaking-chinese/): For learners who recognise the words on a screen but cannot think of them when someone asks a question.
- [Chinese for meeting your partner’s family](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/meeting-chinese-partners-family/): Bringing a gift, greeting the parents and grandparents, making dumplings, and saying you are full.
- [For heritage speakers who understand Chinese but don’t speak it](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/heritage-speakers-chinese/): You follow the family conversation in Chinese but answer in English. This page is about practising the answers.
- [Chinese for moving to China](https://verychinesetimeinmylife.com/for/moving-to-china-for-work/): For expats and their partners: shops, markets, the pharmacy, a lost phone and the neighbours.