A Chinese podcast · Same story, 4 levels
警察用3D打印机做了个假摄像头当诱饵。砸了它的年轻人，被控三条重罪。
Florida Vandal Charged Over $5 Fake Camera
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Florida Vandal Charged Over $5 Fake Camera. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
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 6 key vocabulary words such as 钱、多少、东西 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.
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原文Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.
English transcript reference
There is a small town in Florida.
On the roads of this town there are many cameras.
The cameras watch cars. A car comes, and the camera watches it.
Some people do not like these cameras.
In the summer, several Flock cameras were broken.
The police did not know who did it.
The police made a new camera.
This camera was fake.
An officer printed it at home.
Once it was printed, they put it out on the road.
It sat there for two hours.
A man came.
That fake camera was broken too, and the police came.
Now this man faces three serious crimes.
A serious crime depends on how much the thing you broke was worth.
A lot of money means a serious crime.
But that camera was fake.
An officer printed it at home.
How much is that worth?
The mayor of this town says it is hard to say.
The mayor did not even know the fake camera was there.
Think about it:
If you break something that is fake, how much have you broken?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇How serious the crime is depends on 多少钱 — how much money.
这个，是多少钱？ — How much is this worth?
你弄坏的东西 — the thing you broke.
警察不知道是谁弄的 — the police did not know who did it.
Literally a "photograph-image head" — the camera on a pole.
这个摄像头，是假的。 — This camera is fake.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法Marks what something is made of, or who did it. The 的 at the end is required.
这个摄像头，是假的。 — This camera is fake.
是一个警察在家里印的。 — It was printed at home by a police officer.
不知道 + 是谁……
"Does not know who ..." — the question word 谁 stays inside the sentence, no word order change.
警察不知道是谁弄的。 — The police do not know who did it.
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