Participation
in Chinese vocabulary challenge, May 2025
36 minutes 0.6h
Cleared my Skritter queue. Really wish I’d noted the number of words I knew before I started. My Skritter graph has a very impressive upward curve. Final total word count is 455 (421 unique). Got a long way to go still!
60 minutes 1.0h
379 Skritter cards studied, 21 words learned (still all HSK 2). Have been focussing on the words I’ve already come across on Duolingo, Du Chinese and my chinese dramas. Curious to see how many words I actually know. Of course, writing them and getting the tones right are quite different from recognising the spoken word in a sentence!
5 minutes 0.08h
Was ill so only got a minimum amount done.
38 minutes 0.63h
Skritter queue hsk 2 and some drama words (xinu - calm down)
37 minutes 0.62h
Skritter queue. Getting tough now as it’s a lot of 100% new words. Have started adding cdrama words too (gui - ghost, emo - devil and rumo - posessed). Exciting as this will help not needing subtitles for my favourite xianxia dramas (:
17 minutes 0.28h
Helping friends move house so limited time to study. Will try to catch up.
40 minutes 0.67h
30mins Skritter, 10 mins Du Chinese Flashcards
30 minutes 0.5h
Cleared skritter queue and added 23 words.
65 minutes 1.08h
40mins skritter queue (306 cards). 25mins Du Chinese flashcards, Duolingo and Skritter time attack.
Skritter flashcards seems to work better for me than the Du Chinese ones. I nearly always mark the cards as “not known” on Du. It seems that the writing, voice and tone checks on Skritter are a powerful combo for remembering.
16 minutes 0.27h
Busy day so only got a bit done (Duo, Skritter)
35 minutes 0.58h
393 Skritter cards (cleared due) and Duolingo.
60 minutes 1.0h
280 cards studied. Have started adding words from DaShuMandarin’s teacher Richard to keep things more interesting. I have gone past the HSK 1 & 2 words I find easy and am starting to slow down on the clearing of my queue. Will have to be careful not to add too much from now on before it gets unmanageable.
42 minutes 0.7h
Mostly Skritter (199 cards) and a bit of Duolingo.
41 minutes 0.68h
Continued adding new items to the skritter deck.
194 cards studied, 25 learned.
Going well - still making some errors on the tones but the rest is pretty smooth.
18 minutes 0.3h
Busy day so couldn’t do the full 30 minutes. 2mins skritter, 14 minutes Du Chinese flashcards and 2 mins Duolingo.
30 minutes 0.5h
213 Skritter cards (finally getting better at remembering the tone cards as well as the rest!)
20 Du Chinese cards
Duolingo
45 minutes 0.75h
Filled in the gaps I had on the HSK1 & HSK2 Skritter decks.
23 minutes 0.38h
Still revising backlog of Du Chinese flashcards. 40 resolved. Revised Skritter deck including 1 addition and did 1 Duolingo lesson (second run through the course).
33 minutes 0.55h
Still going through my Skritter and Du Chinese flashcard decks (HSK 2 and random words from the elementary stories on Du Chinese. Am quite behind on the Du flashcards - still have 57 words to study and 38 words to improve on.
31 minutes 0.52h
13minutes on Skritter (114 cards)
18minutes DuChinese flashcards (80 cards)
Daily Duolingo (no idea how mnay words exactly)
Challenge time progress: | |
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Goal progress: |
Score | 11.69 |
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Rank | 2nd |
Hours reported | 11.69 |
Goal | 10h |