Most of the riders that ride in my car for Uber are international students from China. Sometimes, it's hard to understand their accents, even though that deciphering accents is something I like to think that I am good at. 

What I need are some basic phrases that would help me. It would go a long way. (I would just use Google Translate, but I guess Google messed up and said something super rude. I got reported for being rude, so I wanted to see if anybody actually knew) 

1. How are you doing today? 

2. Are you [insert name here]? 

3. Are we still going to [insert destination here]? 

And any other phrases that people think might help. 

It's been a long time since I took any Chinese classes (besides LingoDeer, which I last used last month and had to put aside because of summer school). If I know anything, google translate is kinda useless if you are clueless to the language you're trying to learn. For a start, when you meet the international Chinese students, you can say you're not good at speaking Chinese by saying "Wo zhongwen shuo de bu hao." This way, your riders are aware that you're not fluent in Chinese, but you are trying.

For the first one, you can say "Ni hao ma" which means "how are you?" (A common response to get from this is "wo hen hao" which means "I am good / doing well")

Second one, you can say "Ni shi (name) ma?" 

The last one, I didn't learn to say in Chinese class, so I tried doing a quick search and could not find exactly what is needed. I did, however, find "women qu nali" which means "where are we going?" 

Hope this helps a bit.

You know, way back when, I been wanting to learn a little bit of Chinese as well, but not as big as how much I want to learn Japanese today. Mostly because I kinda like some of the Chinese lettering that I have seen on some appeal, tattoos, and all sorts of content. Although that has big as I am with Chinese today, but I wouldn't mind learning a few words though.