Chinese reading challenge, July 2024

Finally finished reading the Mandarin companion book to my mother in law. Ransom of Red Chief. She loved it.

More and more reading

Almost finished Sinolingua’s 1k. Had a reading bout with my Chinese teacher and spent some time on sentence mining on Chinese pod vocabulary base that I just discovered the other day. Very nice to ...

Duolingo, Chinese pod, anki....so much.

Anki flashcards!! Plus found that I could search words on Du Chinese which is really useful to see new vocab used in different contexts rather than just in isolated sentences.

More graded reader today.

Reviewed teacher’s corrections on article writing + some graded reader

did tons of reading while watching football

Read a bit.

Did tons of reading.

I finished the first 500 words graded reader from Sinolingua. I’m pleasantly surprised by the last few stories, much more interesting than some of the first ones.

all kinds of reading for me today!

Read some more of the grader reader

Went to a library-café for a bit of reading. I found this book about a Chinese young woman living in Paris. Half is her depicting her daily Parisian life in different spots, half her own sketches o...

Did the best I could

A few stories of Sinolingua’s graded readers

7.18 forgot to post.

Picture this: I'm at the table reading RANSOM OF RED CHIEF 红后的价格 in Chinese to my mother in law. She is sitting there in rapt attention. Sometimes finishing the lines before I say them! Thanks Mand...