A Chinese podcast · Same story, 4 levels
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六万人涌向欧洲：西班牙小城 Ceuta 的海边，至少 70 多人溺亡
60,000 Rushed Europe's Doorstep at Ceuta. Dozens Drowned Trying to Cross.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 2 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 7 key vocabulary words such as 钱、想、学校 and walks through 2 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.
Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.
Today, we're going to talk about something very sad.
There's a small place, and that place is good.
In that place, people have money and rice to eat.
In that place, their sons and daughters can go to school too.
In front of this good place, there are huge numbers of people.
These people have no money, and no rice to eat.
They all want to go to that good place.
They think: if we go to that place, we'll be well off too.
But that good place doesn't want them to come.
In front of the good place is a vast, vast sea.
The sea is huge.
In July, huge, huge numbers of people wanted to go to that good place.
Many people walked into the sea.
The sea was too big; the water was too much.
Many people were lost in the sea.
Many, many people were gone, and did not come back.
That good place — so many people came.
That place called in many soldiers.
The soldiers stood in front of the sea, so these people couldn't come over.
This is terribly sad.
These people wanted to reach a good place, and in the end were lost in the sea.
The people in the good place have money and rice to eat.
The people with no money have nothing.
They too want money, and rice to eat.
Wanting to reach that good place, they walked into the vast, vast sea.
And you?
Think about it: would you walk across a vast, vast sea?
Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
那个地方，人有钱 — in that place, people have money.
他们都想去那个好地方 — they all want to go to that good place.
儿子、女儿，也能去学校 — sons and daughters can go to school.
有米饭吃 — have rice to eat.
是很大很大的海 — is a vast, vast sea.
叫来了很多兵 — called in many soldiers.
那个好地方 — that good place.
* beyond level超纲词
也……
"also / too". 我们也会很好 — we'll be well off too.
我们也会很好。
太……了
"too ...". 海太大了 — the sea is too big.
海太大了，水太多了。
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