A Chinese podcast · Same story, 4 levels
尼泊尔和西藏之间的冰川塌了。仪器上那个四点四级的地震，其实是山掉下来的声音。
Nepal–Tibet Glacier Collapse Mimics Earthquake
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Nepal–Tibet Glacier Collapse Mimics Earthquake. 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 水、块、下面 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
Between Nepal and Tibet there are very high mountains.
The mountains are high, and up there it is cold.
On the mountain there is ice.
One day in August, a little after eight in the morning.
A block of ice on the mountain came down.
That block of ice was very, very big.
The ice came down, and rocks came down with it.
Below the mountain there is water — a river.
The ice and the rocks all went into the river.
The water in the river could not get through.
The water stopped there.
The water got more and more, more and more.
Then, the water came down.
The water was big and it was fast.
Below the mountain there were people.
Many people come here to see the mountains, and to walk on them.
They did not know the ice had come down.
The water came.
Four hundred people died.
More than a thousand people cannot be found.
The ice on the mountain came down.
The people below did not know.
Think about it:
One block of ice on a mountain — what can it do?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇河里的水，走不了 — the water in the river could not get through.
一块冰 — one block of ice. The unit the whole story hangs on.
山下面有人 — below the mountain there were people.
下面的人，不知道 — the people below did not know.
山上有冰 — there is ice on the mountain.
山很高，山上很冷 — the mountain is high, and it is cold up there.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法越来越……
"More and more" — the quality keeps increasing.
水越来越多，越来越多。 — The water got more and more.
……不了
Cannot manage to do it. Attached to the verb.
河里的水，走不了。 — The water in the river could not get through.
一千多个人，找不到。 — More than a thousand people cannot be found.
Proper nouns
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