"我们在读报纸。"

Translation: We are reading the newspaper.

[moaremata]

what's the difference in this case between 看报纸 and 读报纸?

[EvonneHo]

The correct way of writing it is 看报纸 , but 读报纸 is the same thing, it's just a little weird to say it that way.

[ny4MS1qV]

读书 generally means study, but 看书 means reading a book. 看报 or 看报纸 is more natural than 读报 or 读报纸, people that 读 a newspaper really pay attention to the stories compared to those who just flip through the pages browsing (看).

[KCarmine]

I don't really get why 在 needs to be in this sentence...

[zest16]

在 denotes continuous mood. I guess that without it, some people would understand "we read the newspaper every day, but not right now". Hope a native lends us a hand.

[LilyAlcee]

Since when is 读 read? Not 看？

[Gabrielle145359]

看 means "to look". We can use it for silent reading (looking at words). 读 definately means reading (not just looking), and it can be used for reading aloud.

[liIDqa]

Newspaper = paper in the UK

[Peter126850]

Also in the us

[pkoutsenko]

Newspaper (singular) should also be correct

[JairoCaste19]

The official answer is in SINGULAR

[Juan_KW]

哈哈

[maartendoc]

报 (bào) = to announce/to inform/report/newspaper
纸 (zhǐ) = paper

报纸 (bàozhǐ) = an announcement paper (lit.) = newspaper

[Andrew-Lin]

我們在讀報紙。

[AlexZhang815693]

Why does the "the" have to be there I know it's correct grammar, but I just DON'T GET IT!

[Rumactree]

Are you doing the reverse tree? (Are you chinese/mandarin speaking and doing this course to practise English?)

Or are you an English speaker asking?

It makes a difference to how to answer you.