Chinese reading challenge, November 2023

Chinese novel.

小蘑菇 chapter 1, Kuaikan Manhua

LaurenF joined the challenge!

I don´t remember how much I read so far but I enjoyed spending some time on https://www.zhihu.com/ .

Finished reading The Last Leaf on DuChinese, plus a bit of reading on Lingq.

Keeping on with 《皮皮鲁和魔方大厦》。

Finished 1 Mandarin companion, started another 1. Also 西游记 and 孔子.

西游记，Pepper 地15书

Yet more 活着

Du intermediate

More 活着

Read the "Escape!-逃出去" text adventure on https://wordswing.com/ . Still haven't escaped!

Read another chapter of the Mandarin Companion book The Misadventures of Zhou Haisheng. It went pretty smoothly. We'll see how it goes when I try harder reading, but I won't rush it.

MelissaN joined the challenge!

Finished the Chinese Tea break podcast transcript on the Aging Population in China. I think it is useful to read in depth pieces like this as it really helps to solidify the new vocab which is repe...

I continued reading the 恐怖高校 web novel. Turns out it is 1276 chapters long! I think I'll set my stopping point at a modest 12 to 20 chapters. Until then, I will keep practicing the vocabulary I lea...

西游记，Pepper 地15书。

Vic Sheldon joined the challenge!

For this challenge I'm focusing on working through a random webnovel from the site 全本小说网，called 恐怖高校. I'm enjoying the somewhat cheesy elements to the horror (a blood-red sky; ashy black clouds; pe...

Izzy joined the challenge!

HSK sample test Mandarin Bean/Mandarin Companion graded reader "我们是朋友吗“？/podcast transcripts on https://maomichinese.com/podcast “Have You Worked Hard Enough?"/

Reading Mandarin Companion Xiao Ming Boy Sherlock, which I read a while ago. I seem to be faster than I was last time, but got stuck on a few passages -- not because I didn't know the characters, b...

Du Chinese. Finished reading "The Kiss" and started reading a new intermediate story, "The Last Leaf." There are more words I don't know in these stories, but I think it's going pretty well. I'm e...

I spent time going through https://mandarinbean.com/ and slow mandarin https://kitchenknif.github.io/ today. Then wrapped things up with 5 podcast transcripts on https://maomichinese.com/podcast/