Newly launched News
goulnik
June 20, 2009, 09:12 AM posted in General DiscussionI don't know whether I will still have time to publish news here, and in view of the amount of good content now available, I am not even sure what the value would be.
One of those is the newly launched CCTV.com news bulletin published daily by iMandarinPod.com, combining podcast, full transcript, vocab and practice drills. These 3-5 short news pieces are read a slightly slower speed than normal.
Interesting stuff, but politically correct and spot clean as you would expect. Here's their announcement :
好消息！！！ 我们和央视网（CCTV.com)联合制作推出了一档“慢速新闻汉语”节目，把每天的新闻趣事以慢速播音的方式播发，让大家一边学习汉语，一边了解世界各地刚刚发生的新闻消息。
changye
June 20, 2009, 12:49 PMI really appreciate your contributions here. The headlines in English were just great!
mikeinewshot
June 20, 2009, 03:52 PMgoulnik
I may be being stupid, but I could not see how to navigate to the news broadcasts on the imandarin.com site
goulnik
June 22, 2009, 06:31 AM@mikeinewshot, their News link is the problem. What you want to check is Special Chinese, and that certainly is confusing.
changye
June 22, 2009, 01:32 PMHere is a piece of hilarious news. A Chinese student wrote an essay using ancient Chinese scripts, such as 甲骨文 (oracle bone scripts), 金文 (bronze inscriptions) and 篆书 (seal scripts), in this year's college entrance exam (高考) in the PRC. This "incredible" applicant lives in 四川省 (Sichuan province), where is a center of 甲骨文 study/research in China. Great guy, I just hope he will pass the exam, hehe.
四川高考出现甲骨文作文？
http://web.xwwb.com/wb2008/wb2008news.php?db=4&thisid=50347
四川高考现甲骨文作文，续
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/edu/edu-kczj/news/2009/06-22/1742973.shtml
changye
June 27, 2009, 02:44 PMAnother "extraordinary" student appeared in this year's college entrance exam (高考) in the PRC.
An applicant in Hubei province (湖北省) wrote an essay in the exam all in archaic Chinese (文言). Furthermore, in the essay, there is a classical poem (古诗) that contains more than a hundred lines of seven-character phrase (七言).
The student naturally got a perfect score on the essay exam, but unfortunately and strangely, his total score in the entrance exam is only 370, less than a half of the perfect score 750. Looks like he is NOT a "Jack of all trades", hehe.
湖北考生高考作文写古体长诗获满分
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-06-23/063918073814.shtml
最牛满分作文作者高考总分370
http://fzwb.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=53414301
henning
June 20, 2009, 10:08 AMYour contributions here would be really missed.
I liked the selection and diversity of topics and the choice of vocab.