Personally when I speak Mandarin naturally I say it the Taiwan way but I used the Bejing way in the video as Bejing Mandarin is considered the proper Mandarn, or Standard Spoken Chinese.  The character lái (来) simply means to come. Make sure you get the second tone right on this one. The last character de (的) is simply a particle and means of or from in Mandarin Chinese.

I hope this video on learning to ask somebody where they are from in Mandarin helped. In the next video we’ll go through the countries so you’ll actually be able to tell people where you come from in Mandarin Chinese! Good luck!