A Chinese podcast · Same story, 4 levels
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星战新动画《第九个绝地》：日本工作室重画的星球大战
Japan Redrew Star Wars, and Lucasfilm Told Them to Ignore the Canon
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 9 key vocabulary words such as 画、东西、长 and walks through 3 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.
Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.
Star Wars — you know it, right?
A great many people have seen the Star Wars films.
Now Star Wars has something new.
This new thing is not a film. It is drawn.
The people who drew it are Japanese.
In the new Star Wars there is a girl.
Her name is Kara.
Kara's father makes swords.
What is a sword?
A sword is a long thing.
With a sword, a person can fight.
The swords Kara's father makes are not like other swords.
These swords have light.
Even in a very dark place, you can see this sword.
Later, Kara got a sword of her own too.
She has to go somewhere very far away.
She has to look for some people.
In the past, there were a great many of these people.
Now there are hardly any left.
Kara wants to ask them to come back.
The new Star Wars has eight episodes.
Think about it: have you seen Star Wars?
Do you like it?
Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
是画的 = it is drawn, i.e. animation rather than live action.
一个新东西 = something new. The most general noun in the language.
很长的一个东西 = a long thing.
很远的地方 = a place far away.
请他们回来 = ask them to come back.
Taught in the episode: a long thing you can fight with.
这个剑，有光 = this sword has light — a lightsaber.
The main character of the story.
她要找一些人 = she has to look for some people.
* beyond level超纲词
不是 A，是 B
"not A, it is B" — the plainest correction pattern.
这个新东西，不是电影，是画的。
和……不一样
"different from …". The thing compared goes after 和.
Kara 爸爸做的剑，和别的剑不一样。
有了……，可以……
"once you have …, you can …".
人有了剑，可以打。
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