<p>This group is for advanced students who want to be able to follow current affairs in Chinese. The material to train for this must meet the following requirements:<br /><br />- Good quality audio <br />- Downloadable files (instead of streaming only)<br />- Spoken at normal speed<br />- Transcripts available<br /><br />Some weekly stories by Deutsche Welle (DW) meet these requirements. They do not stay online forever so if you're interested you may want to download the three following mp3 files right now. There's one about Facebook, one about Nuclear Power in Germany and one about the Yahoo-Microsoft merger.<br /><br />http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5918885_type_audio_struct_1682_contentId_5918882,00.html<br /><br />http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5978173_type_audio_struct_1681_contentId_5978039,00.html<br /><br />http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5945598_type_audio_struct_1682_contentId_5942115,00.html<br /><br /><br />The way to work is to annotate the vocab and to sort out obscure passages. Heres' my annotated transcript for the last of the above audio files (the Yahoo&Microsoft story):<br /><br />https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=12eeyQlXKNuZQMs3lJwMIyWhWx8u0O9ZgSONGqQQoyp4&hl=en_GB&authkey=CKnB-O4H#<br /><br />In this text, i'm not clear how the starting clause (这是这两家公司就互联网搜索合作达成一致之后) connects to the rest of the sentence.</p> <p> </p>