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HSK 3 Chinese Reading Practice

Stories and articles where at least 9 in 10 words are HSK 3 or below.

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Story series · 2 chapters · 1 min audio each楼下的小饭馆The noodle shop downstairsA new job in a new city. A small noodle shop. An egg nobody ordered.Chapter 1Chapter 2Starts with chapter 1

Story series · 2 chapters · 1 min audio each送错的外卖The wrong deliveryShe ordered a bowl of noodles. A birthday cake came instead.Chapter 1Chapter 2Starts with chapter 1

Story series · 12 chapters · 1 min audio each猫去哪儿了？The case of the missing catA fat white cat on a strict diet goes missing. A retired policeman and his ten-year-old granddaughter knock on every door. Every neighbour is hiding something.Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Starts with chapter 1

Story series · 10 chapters · 1 min audio each小侦探妞妞The little detectiveDad’s dumplings. Grandpa’s glasses. The cat’s fish. Things keep vanishing, and seven-year-old Niuniu has a notebook and a lot of questions.Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Starts with chapter 1

NewStory series · 2 chapters · 4 min audio each外婆的本子Grandma’s NotebookYuan grew up in Canada and speaks slow, careful Chinese. On his first day at Grandma’s, he drops her forty-year notebook of words in the rain. Every word washes away. So he will have to go and hear them again.Chapter 1Chapter 2Starts with chapter 1

NewStory series · 5 of 30 chapters out · 2 min audio each七楼Daily Chinese mystery story for HSK 3 learners: The Seventh FloorParcels keep arriving for the seventh floor of a six-storey building, and new parcel-station worker Qiao An, with nine-year-old Ningning, sets out to find who takes them and why.Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Starts with chapter 1

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Story series · Chapter 1 of 2 · 1 min audio不是我的蛋糕Not my cakeShe ordered a bowl of noodles. A birthday cake came instead.HSK 3

Article · 1 min audio为什么中国人见面总问“吃了吗”？Why do Chinese people ask “Have you eaten?”Every morning, the same question on the stairs: “Have you eaten?” Mark answers it honestly. That is his first mistake.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio我在咖啡店门口How to take a taxi in ChineseOne sentence, practised ten times. Two coffee shops. A driver on the other side of the road.HSK 3

Article · 1 min audio我们都到了却没见面Same Place Different DoorTwo friends are both at the shopping mall, yet neither can see the other. A few more precise words solve a familiar meeting-point problem.HSK 3

Story series · Chapter 1 of 12 · 1 min audio豆腐不见了The cat that didn’t come homeA fat white cat on a strict diet goes missing. A retired policeman and his ten-year-old granddaughter knock on every door. Every neighbour is hiding something.HSK 3

Article · 1 min audio汉字里的画Chinese characters that look like picturesA girl, a pencil and her first Chinese characters. Inside each one, a little picture is hiding.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio多少钱？How much is it?One fruit stall. Two numbers that sound almost the same. A notebook to the rescue.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio学用筷子Learning to use chopsticksA first dinner at a Chinese friend’s home. Chopsticks that will not behave. A three-year-old teacher with a secret.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio妈妈的电话Mum’s Sunday call: a phone conversation in ChineseEvery Sunday at eight, Mum calls. Every Sunday, the same three questions. This Sunday, her son calls first.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio我要一杯茶How to order tea in ChineseA hot afternoon. A small tea house. One visitor who just wants tea, and finds out there is no such thing.HSK 3

Story · 1 min audio地铁里的阿姨How to take the subway in ChinaHis first rush hour. A kind auntie who is going his way at every stop. A friend who isn't at Exit B.HSK 3

Article · 1 min audio只带了现金怎么办？How to pay with your phone in ChinaA 100-yuan note, a watermelon and a shop that can't give change. How China pays with a QR code, and whether cash still works.HSK 3