Reading an entire Chinese news article is a big challenge.

It can be slow, demoralising and almost impossible to get to the end. It's not the same as reading in your own language. So it needs to be done differently.

How? You need to learn how to skim read!

If you follow these 3 steps you can quickly skim read any article BEFORE you decide if you should invest your time into it:

#1 Read headings and sub headings

Get an overview of the structure of the article. Learn any challenging words in the titles as these will be key to understanding.

#2 Look at the pictures

These gives good clues about people, places and companies in the article. Look them up first.

#3 Read the last para

The main point is always at the end in Chinese. If you know how the text is going to end it makes it much easier to follow and understand.

Now you've done a quick skim of the article, you know: who's in it, what it's about, and how it ends.

Now you can start reading....