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• You should be familiar with the social etiquette used to welcome friends in Chinese.
• Confidently use the following words and sentences in Mandarin:
  1. please, drink, tea, you (polite form), enter, welcome, thanks, polite, to smoke
  2. Come in, please.
  3. Don't be polite.
  4. Do you smoke?
  5. What would you like to drink?
• Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 12 characters introduced in lesson 8.
• Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 8. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.