"他们不看汉语书。"

Translation: They do not read Chinese books.

[Mandarin269814]

What about, 'They are not reading Chinese books?'

[Imnuts7]

不在看

[GTPrice]

I don't see why Chinese and Mandarin are not interchangeable in the English translation.

[alotofpeople]

Dialects other than mandarin are still written the same way, just spoken differently. Plus, the provided Chinese doesn't specify that the books are supoosed to be in Mandarin at all.

[Haylie24]

Isn't 语 supposed to pertain specifically to spoken language, though?

[LazyEinstein]

So could “他们不看中文书。“ be used for anything?

[AmitChopra9]

Would " They can't read Chinese books" be wrong?

[BZH1423]

I think that would be 他们不会看汉语书 or 他们不能看汉语书