Chinese reading challenge, August 2025

Read about the beginnings of Starship, page 318/590

another 15 minutes this morning just reading the hsk4 app story new grammar structure learned 既....又 and only a few words unknown so making it a great balance for me right now. also able to switch ...

Some reading in bed

Did the best I could but I drove 6 hours and heard a lot of Chinese but couldn't read much....

Designing Cybertruck, building the Tesla factory in Shanghai. Page 303

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