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

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
9 minutes

A few minutes' reading before bed

Friday, Aug 22

峻鸿
30 minutes

Little bit here little bit there.

Friday, Aug 22

Cliff Larsen
49 minutes

Up to page 403

Friday, Aug 22

Akobato
82 minutes

Read about Neuralink. Maybe a few decades from now, Chinese learning is done via brain implant? Will people still read books then? Page 392/590

Thursday, Aug 21

Akobato
5 minutes

Unfortunately another busy day, managed to find time to read an article on Mylingua

Thursday, Aug 21

峻鸿
35 minutes

Poem, read sleeping beauty to my mother in law. Learned 咒语 zhou4 yu3 and a few other things.

Thursday, Aug 21

Cliff Larsen
72 minutes

Up to page 367

Thursday, Aug 21

Akobato
15 minutes

excruciating 15 mins lol I read from the HSK 4 app again getting bored with the story but I think the biggest challenge today was actually not recalling what words meant so a lot of looking up but ...

Wednesday, Aug 20

Funmi
62 minutes

Getting there, page 350/590

Wednesday, Aug 20

Akobato
14 minutes

Just a few articles today

Wednesday, Aug 20

峻鸿
15 minutes

Not much since I was so busy.

Wednesday, Aug 20

Cliff Larsen
72 minutes

The second half of a book always feels like walking downhill. Page 335/590

Wednesday, Aug 20

Akobato
24 minutes

Chairman's Bao and MyLingua; back in the saddle after a long time on foot.

Wednesday, Aug 20

Kenny

Kenny joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Aug 20

Kenny

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Akobato35.75119%
2.Cliff Larsen15.52110%
3.峻鸿10.32103%
4.Funmi5.2552%
5.Sammy2.525%
6.Angela (书歆)0.752%
7.Kenny0.413%
8.LLLS0.171%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants22
Hours reported70.66
DurationAugust 10, 2025 to
August 31, 2025 (22 days)