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AI 很大
AI Is So Big It Makes Computers, Phones and Workers Hard to Find
HSK 1 Chinese listening practice. A simple story about how the AI boom makes phones, computers and skilled workers expensive and hard to find.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 1 minute. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 钱、贵、少 and walks through 5 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
Noun. Currency or wealth. Common collocation: 很多钱 (hěn duō qián - a lot of money).
Adjective. High price. Opposite of 便宜 (piányi - cheap).
Adjective. Not many. Used here to describe shortages of workers.
Noun. A person who does manual labor. Measure word: 个 (gè).
Noun. Literally 'hand machine'. Measure word: 部 (bù) or 个 (gè).
Noun. Literally 'electric brain'. Measure word: 台 (tái).
Verb. Used here in the context of electricians fixing things.
Verb. Searching for something or someone.
Adjective/Phrase. 够 (gòu) means enough, 不 (bù) makes it negative.
Adjective. Describing intelligence, used here to explain AI.
Noun. General objects. Literally 'East West'.
Phrase. Describing a difficult situation.
Simple description. '很' (hěn) is often used to link a noun and an adjective, even if not strictly translating to 'very'.
AI 很大 (AI is [very] big)
手机很贵 (Phones are [very] expensive)
工人很少 (Workers are [very] few)
Equating two things, similar to 'A is B'.
AI 是电脑 (AI is a computer)
钱是 Money (Money is Money)
手机是 Phone (Mobile phone is Phone)
Comparison pattern meaning 'Subject is like Object'.
像人一样 (Just like people)
Expressing non-possession or non-existence, 'Subject does not have Object'.
别的没有钱 (Others do not have money)
Present continuous tense, indicating an action is happening now.
大家都在买 (Everyone is buying)