How to get better at reading Chinese language news



Reading the news in Chinese regularly is the best way to keep up with what’s going on in China, maintain and improve your Chinese language skills, and stay on top of the latest language trends.To get more news about chinese alphabet for beginners, you can visit shine news official website.

But it’s also a painful and sometimes almost impossible task to get through a Chinese news article, even for the most advanced language learner.

‘News Reader’ text books teach you ‘newsy’ language, but they don’t teach or prepare the non-native reader for “how” to read the news in Chinese.

That’s because it’s an art which you can only learn through long, lonely hours of wading through dull and frustratingly difficult news articles. I’ve been publishing the Slow Chinese 每周漫文 newsletter every week for nearly two years (86 weeks, but who's counting!), reading five to ten long-form Chinese news and opinion pieces each week.

Before starting to write Slow Chinese, I would hardly ever get through a whole Chinese news piece - giving up because it was too hard, boring, depressing, and/or confusing.

But through the process of reading and writing each week, I’ve developed a framework which makes it much easier to select, read and understand any Chinese language news article.The Methven Method is a framework which helps me improve my news reading skills and ability to choose and consume any news article more quickly and efficiently.

And I’m sure it can help you if you are an advanced learner of Mandarin who needs to read the news in Chinese.The course is led by me, Andrew Methven, with the help of Zoe Qian, who edits the Slow Chinese newsletter

As a native speaker, Zoe will share her takes, tips and tactics with students.

She will be presenting the second module on the Chinese language media landscape - a must for anyone who has to, or aspires to, read the news in Chinese as part of their job. Finally, if this course isn’t for you, but you want to support and help get it in front of the right people, please help share on your social channels and with your Chinese language learning networks.