Participation
in Chinese reading challenge, November 2024



90 minutes
1.5h

Had enough with the annoyingly ineffective "pinyin shadow card" of my graded reader and went for a new 皮皮鲁 novel.
PS: How do you call that in English? Apart from the thing above, I found Pinyin cloak card.

Is that the pinyin card from the Sinolingua Chinese Graded Readers? I have no idea what the proper English name is, but I do remember giving up on using them pretty early on and just trying to ignore the pinyin as best I could. I suppose I could call it a bookmark for all the good it did me. ;)

80 minutes
1.33h

Read some Du Chinese and went on with 皮皮鲁 just to get to my 20 hours finish line

30 minutes
0.5h

Early reading bout to finish the 4th story in the graded reader

15 minutes
0.25h

A few minutes of graded reader

30 minutes
0.5h

Reading class assignment and a few pages of the graded reader.

20 minutes
0.33h

Some grade reader and class material

200 minutes
3.33h

Reading some more kids books and started story 4/5 of sinolingua’s graded reader.

30 minutes
0.5h

Some more light reading for 10 year old kids

30 minutes
0.5h

Bits and bobs of reading here and there

150 minutes
2.5h

Finished the 3rd story of Sinolongua’s graded reader 2500 words.
Then read a story for end of primary school children level. That was a quick but interesting read, as I did get engulfed in the story without thinking it was characters. Reading below one’s level to develop fluency (what’s that article again, Olle?)

50 minutes
0.83h

Story 3 of the graded reader.

110 minutes
1.83h

Finished the second story of Sinolingua's graded reader. I tried a few pages of a short story by Liu Zhenyun called 塔铺 but that still is too difficult for now.

1 minutes
0.02h

Going on with graded readers’ stories.

75 minutes
1.25h

Going on with graded readers’ stories.

30 minutes
0.5h

I started the second story of sinolingua’s graded reader, and read some news from iDaily app, but the latter is still very complex.

TEatime Chinese, Nathan Rau, now has a very short and simpole news chanel. Audio and annotated text. This is today- https://teatimechinese.com/news-nov-11-2024/ Only started a few weeks ago.

85 minutes
1.42h

Finished the first story of the graded reader.

180 minutes
3.0h

For this challenge I'll be reading Sinolingua's Graded Reader 2500 words. The first story “清高” is nice, but a bit challenging sometimes. I had to reread some passages and ask natives for clarification.
I'm keeping tabs on words I add to Pleco, which are probably too numerous already, but that's a helpful sieve to avoid overburdening Anki in the end, as some actually 'stick' without need for SRSing them. I wonder if other people feel the same at the same level (about HSK5ish), for reading anyway, not listening.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:100.5%
Score20.09
Rank4th
Hours reported20.09
Goal20h