What's going on ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Monkey Mandarin's second post. I was reading browsing some Chinese news sites and came across this iPhone 6s review and thought it would be a great idea to be used as reading practice. Seeing the Chinese text in it's raw form will give you a sense of how news and review articles are written in China.
The article was quite long to digest in one sitting and contained a lot of new vocabulary that's is specific to mobile phones and technology so I decided to break it up into three posts to not overwhelm you. This post is the first part of the article. We will have the second and third parts been posted online soon.
After finishing the today's post, I found that I had quite a bit of fun and I think this will make for a good genre for future posts. I mean it's very practical for your Chinese reading practice to also have some articles from real Chinese newspapers or blogs instead of only getting short Chinese stories or Aesop's Fables.
A bonus is that the vocabulary and sentence structure in this article are quite commonly used in daily life in China. People regularly use a lot of these terms when talking to their friends about the latest smartphone they just bought. So hopefully soon you'll be able to speak like a mobile phone connoisseur after you're done with this this three-post series.
If you have any questions or comments, leave a message below. I hope you enjoy it!
But first, let's deconstruct some of the key vocab:
Key Vocabulary:
陆续(lù xù) - gradually
消费者(xiāo fèi zhě) - consumer
媒体(méi tǐ) - media
纠结(jiū jié) - hesitate
下单(xià dān) - order
测评(cè píng) - 测 means testing, 评 means evaluate or comment
体验(tǐ yàn) - experience
运行(yùn xíng) - functioning
上手(shàng shǒu) - these two words are not difficult to understand if you look at them separately, however when you combine them together, it means to master or obtain (for example, a new skill). The way I think of it is 上手 means "on the palm of your hands" in other words, to acquire something like a new skill.
触发(chù fā) - trigger
反馈(fǎn kuì) - feedback
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