Sports: a Chinese text with translation
An older brother loves sports and teaches his younger brother to swim, which turns out to be more fun than the internet. HSK 2, 11 sentences, 145 characters. Tap a line to see the translation, tap the icon to hear it.
我和运动 wǒ hé yùndòng
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My older brother loves sports, and he's very tall.
He runs every morning and plays basketball with friends on Saturdays.
He plays basketball very well, and he runs fast too.
I don't really like sports; I like to stay home and go online.
My brother often says that exercise is good for your health.
Last month, he had me go swimming with him.
I couldn't swim, so my brother taught me.
The first time, I was very tired and my body hurt.
But I went every week, and now I swim pretty well.
I think swimming is much more fun than going online.
This Saturday, we're going swimming together again.
HSK 2 words in this text
- 运动yùndòngsport; exercise
- 个子gèziheight
- 高gāotall
- 每měievery
- 跑步pǎobùjog
- 打dǎplay (ball games); hit
- 篮球lánqiúbasketball
- 跑pǎorun
- 快kuàifast; soon
- 上网shàngwǎnggo online
- 经常jīngchángoften
- 身体shēntǐbody; health
- 让ràngtell (someone to); let
- 跟gēnwith; and
- 一起yìqǐtogether
- 游泳yóuyǒngswimming, swim
- 就jiùright away; exactly
- 教jiāoteach
- 次cìtime (occurrence)
- 累lèitired
- 疼ténghurt, ache
- 但是dànshìbut, however
- 已经yǐjīngalready
- 游yóuswim
- 不错búcuònot bad, good
- 比bǐthan (comparison)
- 有意思yǒu yìsiinteresting
Questions on the text
What does the brother play on Saturdays?
Basketball.
Who taught the narrator to swim?
His older brother.
What does the narrator think is more fun than the internet?
Swimming.
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