Chinese reading challenge, August 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

15 minutes

Not much today....

Friday, Aug 29

Cliff Larsen
24 minutes

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

Thursday, Aug 28

峻鸿
30 minutes

While waiting for our oldest in soccer practice.

Thursday, Aug 28

Cliff Larsen
77 minutes

78 pages left

Thursday, Aug 28

Akobato
73 minutes

Purchase of Twitter, introduction of Optimus, 96 pages left

Thursday, Aug 28

Akobato
15 minutes

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...

Thursday, Aug 28

Funmi
15 minutes

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...

Wednesday, Aug 27

Funmi
41 minutes

Lots of time reading Mylingua

Wednesday, Aug 27

峻鸿
25 minutes

Did a bit

Wednesday, Aug 27

Cliff Larsen

Berliony joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 26

Berliony
86 minutes

115 pages left

Tuesday, Aug 26

Akobato
25 minutes

Mostly reading on Mylingua today

Tuesday, Aug 26

峻鸿
64 minutes

Various topics. Just 136 pages left

Tuesday, Aug 26

Akobato
20 minutes

First day of school. Not much.

Tuesday, Aug 26

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

Some reading Sunday evening

Monday, Aug 25

峻鸿
15 minutes

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"

Monday, Aug 25

Funmi
15 minutes

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...

Monday, Aug 25

Funmi
60 minutes

Got tons done

Monday, Aug 25

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Finally finished the first chapter of Homage to Catalonia.

Sunday, Aug 24

峻鸿
30 minutes

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

Sunday, Aug 24

Funmi
60 minutes

Tons of good reading

Sunday, Aug 24

Cliff Larsen
22 minutes

Getting into a habit now, in the last week

Saturday, Aug 23

峻鸿
120 minutes

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...

Saturday, Aug 23

Funmi
43 minutes

Read during my school's convocation!

Saturday, Aug 23

Cliff Larsen
153 minutes

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

Saturday, Aug 23

Akobato

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Akobato30.1100%
2.Cliff Larsen13.9899%
3.峻鸿8.2882%
4.Funmi5.2552%
5.Sammy2.525%
6.Angela (书歆)0.752%
7.Kenny0.413%
8.LLLS0.171%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Days left2
Participants22
Hours reported61.43
DurationAugust 10, 2025 to
August 31, 2025 (22 days)