My new composition that probably needs serious correction.

[Quest]

昨天晚上王先生一家人到我们家来玩和吃晚饭。我太太做了很多菜，有牛肉，糖醋鱼，还有饺子。王太太说她从没见过这么多菜。王先生的孩子没吃过糖醋鱼。我觉得很意外！但他吃的时候说糖醋鱼不但是好，而且比其它的菜还要好得多。除了饺子，王先生一家人什么都喜欢。我们吃过饭后，我要请王先生来划拳。我请他把一瓶玫瑰露拿进来，可是他不想划拳，因为他不会。他想到电影院去看电影，可是我没有钱，所以我们选择了看电视。过了一会儿百先生也来拜访我们家。然后, 我们一伙到了外面边喝茶边谈。百先生第一次来。他对我说：“你家这个地方很好啊。山水如画。茶也很好！”我想他太客气了。我们喝了茶以后，王先生对他的家人说：“很晚了，我们走吧。”我对他们说：“今晚真高兴，希望你们下次有空一定要再来！”

[xuechengfeng]

为甚么我太太 as opposed to 内人? is it more natural, or common?

她.. we haven't learned this.. I'm assuming it means "her?"

and a few characters i don't understand, i can find them in conjuction with a whole word, but not the ones i'm looking for..

觉得很意外

选择

一伙到了外面边喝茶边谈

如画

下次有空

谢谢您。对不起，太麻烦了。

[Quest]

内人 gives me goose bumps, it's worse than 内子.

I am not sure if 太太 is understood to be wife in the north, though.

觉得 很 意外 (feel unexpected/surprised)

选择 (choose)

外面 (outside. 外头 is dialectic)

边 喝茶 边 谈 ([一]边......[一]边...... to describe two things you do at the same time)

如画 (like a drawing = beautiful)

下次有空 (空 kong4 = free time)

[xuechengfeng]

謝謝你們﹗﹗

[Guest Yau]

太太 and 内人 is equally good to me.

I can imagine if a foreigner introduced his wife to me, and say "it's my 内人", how impressed I'd be.

Here are some more you can learn, but just take it for fun.

爱人 Lover---- A common word that once refered to wife or husband in modern china, but i really doubt its popularity today.

女人 Woman ---- Some still use it to refer to his wife, though it's quite weird. Don't forget to add "我" before it.

犬儿 (literally means Dog-Son) --- it refers exclusively to a "my son", never take it to mention "other's son". A humility in ancient china.

[xuechengfeng]

i hope this is grammatically correct, but

我是能說“我內人”﹐還是能說“內人”呢﹖

or 都可以﹖

i've seen both versions, but i thought 內人 meant "inner" or "my inner" person.. so if it was 我內人 it would seem to me it would be like my my inner person

[Quest]

内人 is discriminatory!

wifes are not 内人s anymore.

ok it probably means 内家的人 but anyways, I think it's very 肉麻。

so if it was 我內人 it would seem to me it would be like my my inner person

no it has nothing to do with your inner peson. only if translations were that simple!

[xuechengfeng]

對不起﹗我不太聰敏了﹗﹗﹗我不知道。

[Guest Yau]

我是能說“我內人”﹐還是能說“內人”呢﹖

or 都可以﹖

Both are idiomatically correct.

Some more to add:

內人 literally means a person who works in the house (and refer to "my wife" only).

I don't think it's discriminatory at all. There's even no any serious debate on it in china, don't believe any statement that insists the political correctness about chinese family title. There's no such thing.

However, it's true that this word is quite strange nowadays. When you say that, people may think you come from an ancient world, you must be a very traditonal person, but nobody finds it offensive. Anyway, just use it for fun.