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为什么硅谷有那么多印度人？
Why Are There So Many Indians in Silicon Valley?
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A simple story about Silicon Valley sending jobs to India as Google and Apple hire where talent lives. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
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 15 key vocabulary words such as 公司、电脑、高兴 and walks through 6 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
Let's talk about work and people.
Here is a big boss.
We call him Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang is very rich.
He has a big company.
This company is in the United States.
There are many computers in the company.
Mr. Wang wants to make new things.
He wants to make very good computers.
Making computers requires people.
It requires people who know how to do it.
It requires people who study well.
Mr. Wang looks inside the company.
There are too few people here.
No one knows how to do this.
Mr. Wang is very unhappy.
He wants to find new people.
Where does he look for people?
He goes to other countries to look.
For example, going to India to look.
There are many people there.
The people there are numerous.
The students there are very good.
They all know how to make computers.
They study very hard.
Mr. Wang is very happy.
Mr. Wang wants to ask them to come.
Ask them to come to the United States.
Come to the United States to help him work.
But now there is a problem.
Going to the United States is very difficult.
Really very difficult.
It requires a lot of money.
It requires a lot of time.
Before, it only required a little money.
Now it requires a lot of money.
Those people do not have money.
Mr. Wang also does not want to give it.
Because it is too much money.
There are also many procedures.
The procedures are very troublesome.
People cannot come by plane.
People cannot come to the United States.
So what to do?
Mr. Wang thought for a while.
He has a good idea.
If people cannot come here,
he can go there.
Mr. Wang goes to India.
He opens a company there.
He buys tables there.
He buys chairs there.
He puts computers there.
People do not need to take a plane.
People work at home.
People can be anywhere.
Mr. Wang gives them money.
They make computers there.
This is very convenient.
This is also very fast.
What is this story saying?
It talks about big American companies.
For example, Google and Apple.
They need good talent.
But the visa to go to the US is very difficult.
A visa costs one hundred thousand US dollars.
This is too expensive.
People cannot go to the United States.
So the company goes to India.
The company goes to places where there is talent.
Where the people are, the company goes there.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇A business organization. Measure word is 家 (jiā).
Literally 'electric brain'. Measure word is 台 (tái).
Adjective describing a feeling of joy or gladness.
Verb indicating assistance. Often used as 帮 + person + verb.
Can mean a question to answer or a difficulty to solve.
Noun referring to the concept of time or a specific period.
Adjective describing high cost.
HSK 1. we; us.
The owner or manager of a business.
Describes putting in a lot of effort.
The administrative steps required to do something.
Adjective for something inconvenient or annoying; can also be a verb 'to bother'.
A solution or way to handle a situation.
Adjective describing something that saves time or effort.
Refers to a talented person or human resources.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法Expresses existence (there is/there are) at a specific location.
这里有一个大老板。
公司里有很多电脑。
那里有很多人。
Expresses a desire or intention to do something (would like to/want to).
王先生想做新东西。
他想找新的人。
王先生想叫他们来。
Indicates an action taking place at a specific location.
他在哪里找人？
他在那里开公司。
人在家里工作。
Using 'de' to create a descriptive clause modifying a noun (people who...).
需要会做的人。
需要学习好的人。
说的是美国的大公司。
Proper Nouns
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