Chinese reading challenge, April 2025

Read as much Chinese as you can before the end of the month! More details and suggestions for what (and how) to read can be found in the attached article.


Recent activities

30 minutes

Reading subtitles on various "Unconventional Chinese" YouTube videos

Friday, Apr 11

科龙
55 minutes

I first read through the paragraph to identify which characters and phrases were familiar. Then, I translated the paragraph into pinyin and read through it again using the pinyin. After that, I r...

Friday, Apr 11

特莎
90 minutes

Reading aloud several Du Chinese articles and one Teatime Chinese podcast transcript.

Friday, Apr 11

Angela (书歆)

Angela (书歆) joined the challenge!

Friday, Apr 11

Angela (书歆)
29 minutes

Some more reading on mylingua.

Thursday, Apr 10

峻鸿
15 minutes

read 2 pages of 两个想上大的孩子

Thursday, Apr 10

Funmi
35 minutes

A timely challenge to finish reading Sinolingua’s graded readers if possible. I’m almost done with the 1500 words one.

Thursday, Apr 10

Tikaf Viper
1 minutes

I have been looking forward to this challenge since the last reading challenge. So excited to actually focus on graded readers and complete a series as part of extensive reading. Though I have some...

Thursday, Apr 10

Funmi
32 minutes

Reading articles on mylingua

Thursday, Apr 10

峻鸿
20 minutes

Reading mylingua article about the year of the snake and about the black swans knocking politely on the door 😂

Thursday, Apr 10

cytryna37
35 minutes

Reading Chairmans Bao articles

Thursday, Apr 10

科龙
45 minutes

Read the paragraph once without pinyin. I write down the character(s) and phrases  don't know/understand, then look up their meaning. Re-read the paragraph with pinyin. 美国为什么会认为中国传统芯片对国家安全构成威胁...

Thursday, Apr 10

特莎
15 minutes

Read illustrated book of the immortals chapter 1-2 from hello chinese

Thursday, Apr 10

ROSALIA D

ROSALIA D joined the challenge!

Thursday, Apr 10

ROSALIA D

何克蒙 joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Apr 09

何克蒙

Vivi joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Apr 08

Vivi

Malaili joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Apr 08

Malaili

Sheila Forde joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Apr 08

Sheila Forde

cytryna37 joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Apr 08

cytryna37

robvie joined the challenge!

Monday, Apr 07

robvie

Michael Golth joined the challenge!

Monday, Apr 07

Michael Golth

Tikaf Viper joined the challenge!

Sunday, Apr 06

Tikaf Viper

峻鸿 joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Apr 02

峻鸿

Funmi joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Mar 18

Funmi

科龙 joined the challenge!

Thursday, Feb 27

科龙

Leaderboard

Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants23
Hours reported221.97
DurationApril 10, 2025 to
April 30, 2025 (21 days)