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Organization of the ChiNews-On-Web

The ChiNews-On-Web Course offers a menu of 90 audio and 50 video Chinese news segments as follows:

Politics
Economics
Science and Technology
Military
Culture and Education
Social News
Industry and Agriculture
Internal Affairs

The news segments are classified according to level of difficulty, in accordance with the ILR scale. Audio segments range from 1+ to 2+ and video programs range from 2 to 3 (High).   You may select segments in any order at any level of difficulty. 

If this is your first time using the course, please select Student's Manual: How to Use this Course before you begin.   

If you would like some additional information on strategies you can use while working through the course, select ChiNews-On-Web Strategies.

If no further instructional guidance is needed, you may start by selecting a lesson.  To select an audio or video lesson, click ChiNews-On-Web Media Matrix.

If you want to start the program now you can select Begin.