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iPhone Duo 起价1999美元，10月23日开卖
iPhone Duo Starts at $1,999; On Sale Oct 23
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Apple has unveiled its first foldable iPhone. Compare its two screens, $1,999 price, and October order dates in beginner Chinese. 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 10 key vocabulary words such as 苹果、买、钱 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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English transcript reference
Apple's new phone costs one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars.
So much money, what kind of phone is this?
This phone is called iPhone Duo.
Apple announced this name on September ninth.
This is Apple's first phone that can be opened and also closed.
After closing it, you look at the phone and see a small screen.
After opening it, you look at the phone and see a large screen.
One phone can have a large screen and can also have a small screen.
When you walk outside, you can close the phone.
When you watch a movie at home, you can open the phone.
When opened, the screen inside is very large.
This large screen is very large, it is seven point six inches.
When closed, the screen outside is a bit smaller.
This small screen is a bit smaller, it is five point four inches.
You can use the small screen to make calls.
You can also open the large screen to watch movies.
Apple says this phone cannot be bought now.
On October sixteenth, people can pre-order.
Pre-order means first saying "I want to buy," and the phone will come later.
On October twenty-third, this phone will arrive in stores.
Stores in China will also have this phone.
Stores in the United States will also have this phone.
Apple says many countries will have this phone.
Do you want to buy it?
First look at this price: one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars.
This money can buy many things.
It can also buy this phone that can be opened.
Some people want a large screen and also want the phone to be smaller.
For these people, a large screen and a small screen in one phone is very good.
Some people say: this phone is very good, but the price is too high.
Two people look at the same phone and think different things.
One person wants a large screen, one person says the price is too high.
On October sixteenth you can pre-order, on October twenty-third the store will have it.
Now, you cannot buy it.
For one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars, will you buy this phone?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇Apple is the company announcing the new phone.
The listener weighs whether to buy the phone.
The $1,999 price drives the story.
The phone reaches stores on October 23.
Used for looking at either screen.
The inner screen is big.
The central product in the story.
The foldable phone has an inner and outer screen.
The unit used for screen size.
The starting price is $1,999.
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法可以……也可以……
Shows two possible uses of the same device.
你可以用小屏幕打电话。
你也可以打开大屏幕看电影。
十月……日
Dates are given as month, day, then 日.
十月二十三日，这个手机会到商店。
Proper nouns
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