Chinese reading challenge, August 2025

Up to page 289

Read the hsk 4 app short story today and yesterday but forgot to log it. Going to try and get some more reading done now before bed

Still going strong

Reading a few articles

Finished the Emperor's New Clothes

Two long chapters (haven't finished them yet) about the efforts of getting Model 3 into mass production. Very impressive to read! Page 265/590

Slower day today

Reading some articles

Up to page 253

Busy day but I got some done.

HSK 1234 app stories trad and simplified after spending day character counting, anki deck sorting cards i dont use 😂 I decided finally for this challenge I am going to read the Hsk4 app stories b...

A few more characters memorised.

I got tons done in the morning. Then dug out my old 幽默大师 from like 2008. Hilarious!

More reading

Model S appeared, Falcon 9 booster first landing in 2015, founding of OpenAI. Page 231/590

Sadly missed out yesterday. Need to get more reading done in the next few days

Only a few paragraphs today, need to set aside a bit more time tomorrow

Worked hard.

Chinese breeze book simplified

Page 200, a milestone

Back to Homage to Catalonia. I've learned an awful lot more military terms than I thought I would.

Did a bit not as much a yesterday

SpaceX succeeded with its fourth launch of Falcon 1, Tesla finally got on the right track and started designing the Model S. All during 2008/09. Now on page 191/590

Cheska joined the challenge!

Same article but with more characters learnt and learning.