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30Jul, 2014

Guest Post: The History of Chinese Americans

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Learn to read Chinese free: simplified Chinese character exercises - Guest Post: The History of Chinese Americans

Hey, whaddaya know! A guest post. Been a while since we got one of these. Many thanks to Ryan, who submitted recently. Ryan tells us: “This is a very interesting article about Chinese-Americans that shouldn’t be too hard for intermediate-level readers. The grammar in this article is fairly simple, and I could understand most of it, having learnt Chinese for half a year.”

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10Jun, 2014

Why are some peppers different colors?

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Learn to read Chinese free: simplified Chinese character exercises - Why are some peppers different colors?

Science! A quick paragraph about why peppers come in so many hues. Though the sentence structure here isn’t too bad and the article is very short, I’m classifying this as ‘advanced’ since several of the words are quite chemistry-specific.

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28May, 2014

Desk-chairs of the Future

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Learn to read Chinese free: simplified Chinese character exercises - Desk-chairs of the Future

This post kicks ass, if I do say so myself. This kid was asked to imagine the perfect desk-chair of the future – what it would look like, and what it would do – and boy, does he ever. The chair turns into all kinds of utopian machinery. It flies, it helps you sleep, and it carries your books to school. Sentence structure is pretty easy and the language is solidly intermediate, with very little advanced vocab (one idiom, a couple of advanced words but not much). At six paragraphs, the text is a bit long, though.

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7May, 2014

Catching Frogs

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Learn to read Chinese free: simplified Chinese character exercises - Catching Frogs

Though this post is beginner-level, it’s also very condensed. I’d say you’ll have to stop and remind yourself what something means every few words or so.

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2May, 2014

Poem: Dewdrops

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Learn to read Chinese free: simplified Chinese character exercises - Poem: Dewdrops

A quick and simple poem about morning dew.

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