A lot of Mandarin language students (myself included!) find it really difficult to consume Chinese news, even after yearsss of study
So I’d really recommend taking a look at this guest blog post by mylingua, they’ve come up with 10 must-know words to make reading Chinese news a lot less daunting!
Here’s some of the words I found particularly useful:
将 (jiāng): used to express the future; like a formal version of 会
及 (jí): this means ‘and’ or ‘to extend to’; often used like a formal 和
之 (zhī): used as a possessive particle; similar to a formal 的
There’s a lot more examples (including sentences and audio!) on the blog, so do go take a look if you’re ready to tackle some Mandarin news
Do you guys have any tips for learning Chinese with the news?
My master degree is in interpreting and translation so when I was in university I used to read as much international news as possible to be always updated and be ready to interpret everything.
During those years I really improved my Chinese because I was reading a lot, and one very useful exercise that my teacher used to make me do was: read an article in chinese, underline the main points and then expose the core content of the article in front of the class. In this way not only I had to understand what I was reading, but I also had to speak about it, which was very useful to learn new vocabulary and strucures!
Nice article! Honestly this makes me feel better about being able to recognize characters in the news sometimes but not understand their meaning in that context - e.g. I had no idea 其 could be used as a possessive pronoun, I thought it was just short for 其实
