Chinese writing challenge, January 2025

This month's challenge is all about writing ability! Set a goal and write as much as you can, but remember that quality also matters. Make sure you get feedback so you know what you should improve. Please read the attached article for more information and inspiration.


Recent activities

107 minutes

第一部分结束了。pretty intense day. Loved the writing. Didactic discourse- a great format for a limited vocabulary. about 1000 hz

Tuesday, Jan 21

janette raven
150 minutes

Part one rewritten as a didactic discourse. To get the feeling that I want. Of a journey inexhorably unfolding in small, simple steps. 950 hz

Tuesday, Jan 21

janette raven
45 minutes

Did TONS of Duolingo work....

Tuesday, Jan 21

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

working with a native tutor on 词汇 for expressing scapegoats and solutions... awesome.

Tuesday, Jan 21

janette raven
60 minutes

drafting and reviewing.

Tuesday, Jan 21

janette raven
1 minutes

I ADORE having a limited yet functional vocabulary. It forces me to be really, really clear about what I want to say/write, and think outside the box for ways of expressing this. It often involves...

Monday, Jan 20

janette raven
10 minutes

playing w 句子 and the subtle energies of some 词汇。。。 Generally doing a lot of thinking, and related listening and gradually getting my thoughts together. This occupied 3 hours..(unclaimed)

Monday, Jan 20

janette raven
30 minutes

spent time with a friend swapping sentences and words we had written and correcting them together.

Monday, Jan 20

Funmi
30 minutes

Working with tutor, looking at partially written text. Not really any tweaking . The subtle differences in the way some terms are applied eg 科技 literally means science and technology, but is now wi...

Monday, Jan 20

janette raven
60 minutes

I came up with a prayer in Chinese for my family. And I wrote it on a big poster... it took a while. It is a combination of a couple different prayers. I took what I liked and left what was not nec...

Monday, Jan 20

Cliff Larsen
60 minutes

R E V I S I N G 第一部分。

Monday, Jan 20

janette raven
90 minutes

revision. amazing way to transition procedural learning into output via "practice" cf Justin Sung next task write other half. really enjoying.

Sunday, Jan 19

janette raven
10 minutes

I am currently deconstructing paragraphs from a film in lingq(free version) theres new words and characters being learned, how to finally write that sentence I keep hearing and just generally tryin...

Sunday, Jan 19

Funmi
10 minutes

Discovered Dapeng about a week ago through the Dong website. His short explanations in Chinese of how to use a word, phrase or expression 表达 using examples gets me inspired to write something. http...

Sunday, Jan 19

Funmi
10 minutes

still here just not doing well with tracking this activity as there is a lot to it. Also my concentration puts me in a drowsy state after after about 10-15mins sometimes. I am either doing 2 hours ...

Sunday, Jan 19

Funmi
45 minutes

wrote a lot. Then I got busy.

Sunday, Jan 19

Cliff Larsen
90 minutes

第一部分结束了。 480 汉字。 areas of time wastage---- spelling mistakes typing in Hanzi. switching between Latin alphabet and Hanzi, estimating this wastage at maybe 20%.. Significant. Procedural? Practic...

Sunday, Jan 19

janette raven
1 minutes

how to construct complexity out of related parts- Justin Sung learning expert. Watched 2 vids last night. Really helpful even though not explicitly aimed at lang learning. 1 https://www.youtube...

Saturday, Jan 18

janette raven
90 minutes

科技生活 part one written. got a bit bogged down. try to tackle rest in one go. Need a new mindmap or a new key word list?

Saturday, Jan 18

janette raven
60 minutes

Yesterday Friday Jan. 17

Saturday, Jan 18

Cliff Larsen
1 minutes

lot of evening spent gathering 故事词汇。Since writing was not involved not claiming.

Saturday, Jan 18

janette raven
42 minutes

Saturday, Jan 18

Jo437
5 minutes

figuring out my approach, how to break it down into small bite size bits.

Friday, Jan 17

janette raven
25 minutes

我在准备。 Fleshing out in engl the structure for a long written discourse on technology and the present time/world situation. This immediately highlights the vocab I will either need to acquire or w...

Friday, Jan 17

janette raven
10 minutes

词汇句子。

Friday, Jan 17

janette raven

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.janette raven40.25100%
2.Cliff Larsen14.46144%
3.Cassandra Hafen11.5115%
4.byestudando6.870%
5.Jo4376.861%
6.Funmi5.6856%
7.Jazzie1.2531%
8.William_C0.338%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants23
Hours reported87.14
DurationJanuary 10, 2025 to
January 31, 2025 (22 days)