How to answer a delivery phone call in ChineseFree in the app

Unknown number, rapid-fire Chinese, something about a package. It's your kuaidi. Here's how to get your stuff.

What you'll say

Tap play to hear it. Everything on this page runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Heads-up: the voice you hear here is your browser’s built-in Mandarin — the app sounds considerably better. On iPhone it uses Apple’s enhanced and premium system voices, plays at real conversational speed, and has a slow mode for practising.

This device has no Chinese voice installed, so audio can’t play here. The app doesn’t have that problem — it uses the Mandarin voices built into iOS.

放在门口就行。

Fàng zài ménkǒu jiù xíng.

Just leave it at the door.

就行 (jiù xíng) = 'that's fine / that works'. Extremely useful pattern.

放快递柜吧。

Fàng kuàidìguì ba.

Put it in the package locker.

快递柜 = the metal locker banks outside most compounds.

我不在家。

Wǒ bú zài jiā.

I'm not home.

我是外国人，请说慢一点。

Wǒ shì wàiguórén, qǐng shuō màn yìdiǎn.

I'm a foreigner, please speak slower.

Your emergency button for any phone call. Works wonders.

What they'll say back

This is the part nobody teaches. Real Mandarin comes back fast and blunt, so hear it at natural speed first.

Press play before you read. In the app, anything you miss comes back slower and then again later, until you catch it at full speed.

They say

你好，你的快递到了，你在家吗？

Nǐ hǎo, nǐ de kuàidì dào le, nǐ zài jiā ma?

Hi, your package has arrived, are you home?

You can answer

在家，放门口就行。

Zài jiā, fàng ménkǒu jiù xíng.

I'm home — just leave it at the door.

不在，放快递柜吧。

Bú zài, fàng kuàidìguì ba.

Not home — put it in the locker.

They say

你的地址是几号楼？

Nǐ de dìzhǐ shì jǐ hào lóu?

Which building number is your address?

You can answer

五号楼，二单元。

Wǔ hào lóu, èr dānyuán.

Building 5, Unit 2. (swap in your own numbers)

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