Chinese vocabulary challenge, May 2025

This is a vocabulary challenge meant to help you boost your learning of characters and words! Set your own goal, report progress and participate along with other students. Please read the attached article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

25 minutes

Skitter review 3 new words

Tuesday, May 13

ROSALIA D
83 minutes

Tons of work in 2 sessions

Tuesday, May 13

Cliff Larsen

alexxela12345 joined the challenge!

Monday, May 12

alexxela12345
33 minutes

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...

Monday, May 12

Inge Schoorl
14 minutes

Added some new cards to Anki

Monday, May 12

峻鸿
29 minutes

Cleared my list.

Monday, May 12

Helmer Aslaksen
31 minutes

I just realized that Skritter keeps track of my time, so I can actually register accurately. I also do some stuff in Du Chinese, but I will just report the Skritter work.

Monday, May 12

Helmer Aslaksen

Marketa joined the challenge!

Monday, May 12

Marketa
120 minutes

Using reading to review vocabulary-focusing on special vocabulary I want to learn-trying to use multi-sensory reviews for at least 3 words each session to help me remember them

Monday, May 12

Cassandra Hafen
28 minutes

Tough to find time today

Monday, May 12

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Reviewing 刀 /刂  (dāo) radical and the ten words below made from the radical, along with the many words made from majority of the ten words. 刀 knife - dāo刂 刁 diāo - wicked, tricky 刃 rèn- blade...

Monday, May 12

特莎
35 minutes

I clear my Skritter cards every day, and add 5 from the HSK 4 deck. I also mark as "hard" every word where I have to swipe to look at the hint. So it takes quite a bit of time.

Monday, May 12

Helmer Aslaksen
31 minutes

13minutes on Skritter (114 cards) 18minutes DuChinese flashcards (80 cards) Daily Duolingo (no idea how mnay words exactly)

Sunday, May 11

Inge Schoorl
5 minutes

Reviewing Anki cards. I may have to adjust the settings during the challenge...

Sunday, May 11

峻鸿

Inge Schoorl joined the challenge!

Sunday, May 11

Inge Schoorl
30 minutes

Reviewing 冂 (jiōng) radical and the eight words below made with the radical, and the words made from the eight words which are many. 1. 冂 (jiōng) – open country, borders (a radical, not commonl...

Sunday, May 11

特莎

Ben B joined the challenge!

Sunday, May 11

Ben B
65 minutes

Today I increase my words to revise in anki (150-> 225) and the new ones (7 ->10) and I also study the leech deck because why I keep confuse 方便 and 便宜 is beyond my mind.

Sunday, May 11

Vivi
40 minutes

Duo. Anki. Botany. Pleco.

Sunday, May 11

Cliff Larsen

Cliff Larsen joined the challenge!

Sunday, May 11

Cliff Larsen
27 minutes

I'm selecting a Chinese radical from the 214-character radical chart and learning vocabulary and phrases built from that radical. I'm starting with the radical "人 rén", meaning "person." This singl...

Saturday, May 10

特莎
35 minutes

I spent 10 minutes adding manually and through excel some words to anki and then, I go to review 150 words and learn 7 new ones. Since I finish in less time than thirty minutes, I learn the new wor...

Saturday, May 10

Vivi
27 minutes

Reviewing vocabulary saved on mylingua in last month's challenge

Saturday, May 10

峻鸿
11 minutes

Reviewing vocabulary and characters on Anki

Saturday, May 10

峻鸿

峻鸿 joined the challenge!

Friday, May 09

峻鸿

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen16.5482%
2.Inge Schoorl11.69116%
3.特莎10.69106%
4.alexxela1234510.63106%
5.Helmer Aslaksen10.02100%
6.Ben B9.55136%
7.cytryna376.020%
8.ROSALIA D5.5955%
9.峻鸿4.3186%
10.Vivi3.1728%
11.Cassandra Hafen2.010%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants21
Hours reported90.19
DurationMay 10, 2025 to
May 31, 2025 (22 days)