Asking where someone is from

The simple question "where are you from?" seems to an English speaker like it should be simple. And it is fairly simple in Chinese. But there is a problem: there are way too many ways to ask this question in Chinese. The result is that learners can feel stupid (for a pretty long time) because they can often be stumped by an unfamiliar form of what they think should be a simple question. This page will break it all down for you.