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Essay: My Toy Bears

A quick child’s essay about two toy bears – a present from mom.

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Essay: Watermelon

A young child’s thoughts and description of watermelon, their favorite fruit.

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Essay: Setting Off Fireworks

A short first-person essay about a kid lighting firecrackers with his parents. I went back and forth on whether to classify this as “beginner” or “intermediate”. It’s easier than most of my intermediate stuff, but it’s got a tighter density of higher-level words than my beginner stuff. But it’s only a few sentences long. I […]

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Essay: I Did Something for Mom

A sweet essay about a young child doing something nice for her mother.

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Father and Son Don’t Get Along

Another super-simple and very short children’s joke.

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Joke: The Desert

This is a very short beginner children’s joke.

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Children’s Stories: The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly

A story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson.

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Cat Goes Fishing

A short story about an older cat teaching a younger cat a lesson as they fish together.

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Mr. Wang Works at the University

A very short, very easy, Chinese passage about a fictional teacher at Beijing University, suitable for newer readers. You’ll learn a couple of interesting Chinese abbreviations for some of the biggest and most famous universities in Beijing, and a few school-centric words. Not a whole lot of compelling narrative here, and not much of a [...]
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Three Good Friends

A very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.

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Feeling Sick

A passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold.

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Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad

This short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping (江苹) before she leaves the country.

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Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave

A very short children’s story about a bear’s search for a new home.