Chinese reading challenge, August 2025

Not much today....

I had a lot of bookmarked articles on Mylingua, going back and reading them now

While waiting for our oldest in soccer practice.

78 pages left

Purchase of Twitter, introduction of Optimus, 96 pages left

Got it 👍 That makes a lot of sense. You’ve nailed the problem most learners hit: 👉 You know every word, but you don’t see the scaffolding — where the main verb is, and how everything else is jus...

I got stuck in the difference between 不得不 and 得不得了meaning have to, no choice but to and terribly, exceedingly, completely, overly. grammar tangent because I had misread it has 急得不得不了 😂 that extra b...

Lots of time reading Mylingua

Did a bit

Berliony joined the challenge!

115 pages left

Mostly reading on Mylingua today

Various topics. Just 136 pages left

First day of school. Not much.

Some reading Sunday evening

read another article a large use of words not commonly used so difficult but was interesting to keep 专心 "Ayesha Curry Opens Up About Marriage and Motherhood with NBA Star Stephen Curry"

read an article "Former Shanghai Shenhua Player Mao Jianqing Praises Li Weifeng as Most Impressive Player in Professional Team" on a new website really like the concept as i don't like flashcards b...

Got tons done

Finally finished the first chapter of Homage to Catalonia.

出事以后 chapter 5-6 30 mins will try again later finally getting into it again good books really.

Tons of good reading

Getting into a habit now, in the last week

really 3 hours but am going to put 2 hours because of how many off tangents grammar reading i did lol separable verbs 呢, 吧, 吗 use in a question all very interesting but actual reading said story mi...

Read during my school's convocation!

The Twitter saga started. The last part of the book is much more detailed, documenting mostly the years 2022 and 2023. Up to page 439