Participation
in Chinese reading challenge, April 2025
170 minutes 2.83h
End of the challenge for me with some more of 皮皮鲁。 It's nice to at last be able to feel the enjoyment of reading in Chinese, although it is still limited to children's book.
Although I vow never to buy any book with pinyin hiding card again, I must confess that some of Sinolingua's graded reading stories were really interesting and enjoyable to read.
130 minutes 2.17h
Read some more of 皮皮鲁, but most of it on class prep reading comprehension. Traditional characters make the process much slower, but it’s actually faster to get used to than I originally thought.
60 minutes 1.0h
A few pages of 皮皮鲁 （children book）and some article reading from MyLingua.
90 minutes 1.5h
I started reading one of 皮皮鲁’s children’s book. Natives tell me it’s for kids aged 10-12. Significantly harder than the 3k words graded reader.
160 minutes 2.67h
Finished reading Sinolingua’s graded readers. Now moving on to 皮皮鲁’s adventures.
120 minutes 2.0h
Read on. Weirdly, the 3k graded reader feels somewhat easier than earlier ones.
120 minutes 2.0h
Finished the graded reader book. On to the 3000 words one.
90 minutes 1.5h
Graded reader
60 minutes 1.0h
Getting on with graded reading.
180 minutes 3.0h
Kept reading the last graded reader’s story ”懒得离婚” by 谌容。really interesting.
90 minutes 1.5h
Working on the last graded reader story for this opus.
100 minutes 1.67h
Finished the 1500 words graded reader from Sinolingua. For some reason I already read the 2000 and only have one story left in the 2500. It’s a hundred pages but I’ll try to finish it for this challenge, as well as the 3000, which I haven’t started yet.
120 minutes 2.0h
I calibrated an AI agent to give me feedback on my writing. It mustn’t give me answers but guide me to find the answer myself. Then I give both versions to my teacher with the script of my discussion with the bot.
I also tried playing a game called Eve online in Chinese for a while. Tough.
60 minutes 1.0h
More graded reading
30 minutes 0.5h
Graded reading. Reread part of the first 马小跳 comic book I read 2 years ago to benchmark my progress in this never ending intermediate plateau :)
90 minutes 1.5h
More graded reading, with a seasoning of Wechat, Taobao and friends.
45 minutes 0.75h
Graded reading
90 minutes 1.5h
Went on with graded reading today + training on reading traditional characters
180 minutes 3.0h
Reading comics in the library.
35 minutes 0.58h
A timely challenge to finish reading Sinolingua’s graded readers if possible. I’m almost done with the 1500 words one.
| Challenge time progress: | |
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| Goal progress: |
| Score | 33.67 |
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| Rank | 1st |
| Hours reported | 33.67 |
| Goal | 30h |