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 2 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 动画、一定、公司 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 have definitely heard the name.
Your parents watched it, and so did you.
These past few days Star Wars has put out something new, but this time it is not a film, it is animation.
The people who drew it are a Japanese company, not an American one.
So this Star Wars looks very different from before.
There is a girl in the story, and her name is Kara.
Kara's father makes swords.
These are not the ordinary swords you usually mean.
This kind of sword glows, so even in a very dark place you can see it.
In Star Wars, only one kind of person uses this kind of sword.
There used to be a great many of them, and then one by one they were gone.
The ones left now are very few.
Someone wants to find them and bring them back.
Kara picks up the sword her father made and goes along too.
She has to travel far, to find the ones still alive.
The new Star Wars is eight episodes in all, on Disney.
People who have seen it say it looks wonderful, but the story is a little slow.
Think about it: have you seen Star Wars?
Do you prefer the films, or the animation?
Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
动 (move) + 画 (drawing). Contrasted in the episode with 电影.
你一定听过 = you have definitely heard of it.
一家日本公司 = a Japanese company. 家 is its measure word.
还活着的人 = the people still alive.
跟着一起去了 = went along with them.
现在剩下的，没有几个 = there are hardly any left now.
The lightsaber the whole story turns on.
这种剑会发光 = this kind of sword glows.
The protagonist, Kara.
* beyond level超纲词
看上去……
"looks / appears …". About appearance, not fact.
所以这个星球大战，看上去和以前很不一样。
一个一个
"one by one". Reduplication that makes the process feel slow and inevitable.
以前这种人非常多，后来一个一个都没有了。
A，还是 B？
Offers a choice between two things in a question.
喜欢电影，还是动画？
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