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超级碗上的西班牙语歌
Bad Bunny Sings in Spanish at the Super Bowl — A First with Lady Gaga Watching
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A simple story about Bad Bunny singing Spanish songs at the Super Bowl with the Puerto Rico flag flying. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 minutes. 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 没关系、我们、你们 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.
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English transcript reference
Yesterday I watched TV.
This was a very big game.
In America, everyone was watching this game.
This game is called the Super Bowl.
But, I do not watch the ball game.
I only watch the singing.
In the middle of the game, a person came out to sing.
This is a man.
His name is Bad Bunny.
Do you know him?
He is very famous right now.
Many people like to listen to his songs.
Yesterday he did a big thing.
This is the first time.
What first time?
It is that he only sang Spanish.
He did not speak English.
Before, in this game, everyone sang English.
But yesterday, it was all Spanish.
I think this is very interesting.
He made a small house on the stage.
That house was small, but very pretty.
That is his home.
He is a Puerto Rican person.
He loves his home very much.
He wants to let us see his home.
He also loves his friends.
His friends also came.
Lady Gaga came.
Ricky Martin also came.
Everyone sang together, danced together.
In front of that small house there were many people.
Everyone was very happy.
Although he spoke Spanish, everyone could understand the music.
Music is a very good thing.
Bad Bunny only spoke one sentence of English.
He said God bless America.
But he also held many flags.
Those were flags of many countries.
Those flags were very pretty.
He said we need to be together.
We need to have love.
Do not have hate.
This is called unity.
However, one person did not like this.
That person is Trump.
He said on the internet, this was not good to watch.
He said this was the worst.
He said he could not understand by listening.
Because he does not understand Spanish.
But Bad Bunny did not care.
He was very happy there.
He wanted to tell everyone who he is.
He wanted to tell everyone where his home is.
I also think it was very good.
Because the music was good to listen to.
I also want to go to his home to look.
Inside that small house there are many stories.
Inside there, he also gave a trophy to a small child.
That child was very happy.
I think this is love.
Will there be more songs like this in the future?
I think there will be.
Because the world is very big.
There are many people.
There are also many languages.
Everyone wants to speak.
Everyone wants to sing.
I finished watching TV, I went to sleep.
But I was still thinking about that music.
That music was very happy.
If you have a chance, you can also go listen.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand.
As long as you are happy it is fine.
This is what happened yesterday night.
Now let's talk about something else.
Besides singing, what else was there yesterday?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇Noun. Used for sports games or contests. Measure word: 场 (chǎng).
Verb-Object compound. Literally 'sing song'.
Noun. The language spoken in Spain and much of Latin America.
Phrase. 第 (prefix for ordinal numbers) + 一 (one) + 次 (time/occurrence).
Noun. A general term for a house or room. Measure word: 个 (gè).
Noun. A piece of cloth used as a symbol. Measure word: 面 (miàn).
HSK 1. it doesn't matter.
HSK 1. we; us.
HSK 1. you (plural).
HSK 1. what.
HSK 1. now.
HSK 1. friend.
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法Indicates an action happening at a specific location.
大家都在看这个比赛
他在台上做了一个小房子
Used to emphasize a detail (like time, place, manner, or agent) of a past event.
这是一个很大的比赛
他是波多黎各人
Used to express thoughts, feelings, or opinions (to think/to feel).
我觉得这很有意思
我觉得会有
Proper Nouns
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