杭州：今天慢慢走

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HSK 1 Chinese listening practice. Walk around Hangzhou’s West Lake with two speakers, then pause for Longjing tea.

This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 5 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 风景、湖边、散步, 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.