Mandarin Daily News eReading - Taiwanese online newspaper for kids

[wibr]

Mandarin Daily News is a publisher in Taiwan offering four different newspapers for kids which are also available online for people who don't live in Taiwan.

There are 國語日報, two levels of 國語日報週刊 and 中學生報. Naturally, all of those are in traditional characters, the former three additionally provide bopomofo.

 

Since the 中學生報 is written for teenagers, I would say it's the most suitable one for adult Chinese learners. It's released weekly and has 16 pages, in the online edition each page is available as an image. This is a major drawback, I would much prefer a proper pdf, but the resolution is sufficient for the Pleco OCR to do a reasonable job. The first two pages have short articles in both English and Chinese, which is great as a warmup excercise or to check how much you have understood. In general I like the selection of topics and I feel the difficulty is a bit easier than the regular news, also due to the maximum article length being limited to one page. For around 30€ per year, paid with credit card, you get a steady stream of native material for studying, so even if you have just a few minutes there are some shorter articles in the reading pipeline. They provide an older edition online for evaluation, the format is exactly the same as the one you get with a subscription.

[Tomsima]

great resource, thanks for sharing

[mungouk]

The Beijinger has a very brief look at 4 "news apps" today:

• iDaily
• 后续 hòuxù
• Kzfeed/快知 kuài zhī
• Q Daily/好奇心日报 hàoqí xīn rìbào. 

 

Mandarin Monday: The Best News Apps to Help You Learn Chinese

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eRxllOnB7bwzRoR4r4iTkQ

 

(Quite possibly an old article as they seem to be recycling a bit at the moment.)