At this stage if your viewing the beginner lessons we don't expect that you're fluent with the 4000 plus characters that you need to be able to read the Chinese newspaper. What were looking at is the choice, if you were not aware, you can get a newspaper the China Daily which is printed in English. Some times you just want to know what's happening in the world with out suffering a brain aneurism trying to follow the Chinese paper. Its all about knowing what to ask, so in today's lesson we show you how to ask for a newspaper and choose the English version.

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