Happy Chinese（快乐汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. In Season I, we will focus on daily life Chinese. It will helps the foreigners not only just know what to say, but also how to use it. 快乐汉语系列一《日常生活汉语》主要教授在中国家庭生活及学校生活中的日常用语。我们将以情景剧的方式帮助大家理解和掌握这些句子。

Sentences:

1.您多大年纪了？
How old are you?
你多大了？
What's your age?/How old are you?
用汉语来询问别人年龄的时候，一般可以这样问。如果对方是小朋友，你可以问“你多大了”或者“你几岁了”，如果对方是年轻人，你也可以问“你多大了”还可以根据对方的相貌先做出一个简单的年龄判断，然后再询问。比如：“你十几了”、“你二十几了”如果对方看起来年龄比较大，你可以问“您多大年纪了”当回答别人的询问时，如果年龄在十岁以上，口语中常常省略“岁”。比如“你多大了”、“十一”。
The following are the ways to ask in Chinese about someone's age. If the person you ask is a child, you may say "Ni duo da le" or "Ni ji sui le". If the person you ask is young, you may say "Ni duo da le". You may also have a rough assessment of the person's age based his/her appearance, then say, "Ni shi ji le"(for a teenager), "Ni ershi ji le"(for a person above 20). If the person you ask is old, you may ask by saying "Nin duo da nianji le"(How old are you). The person asked, if aged above 10, often omits the word "sui" in answering a question about his/her age. For example: "Ni duo da le"(How old are you),"Shi yi"(I am 11).

2.我没带钱，你呢？
I have no money with me. How about you?
我吃饱了，你们呢？
I'm full. How about you?
在一定的上下文中，汉语中的助词“呢”，前面可以只有一个名词性成分，有的时候是问“在哪儿”，比如“我的钱呢”，有的时候是问“……怎么样”，比如“我会常来的，你们呢”。
In a certain context, before the Chinese auxiliary word "ne", there can be a noun composition. The pattern is used to mean "where", for example "Wode qian ne"(Where's my money), or "how", for example "Wo hui chang lai de. Nimen ne"(I'll come here often. How about you).