Chinese reading challenge, August 2025

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

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Same article but with more characters learnt and learning.

More reading, page 171/590

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Still hunting for material in the meantime reading transcripts for interviews and shows have watched in traditional and get more familiar with zhuyin can see slight dfferences in sound. I went b...

Ended up watching the Perseids for too long, only got a bit of reading done

Wow. Just couldn't stop reading!!!

Read about the first two launch attempts of SpaceX and the difficulties of Tesla around 2008, page 157/590

Still going with the same article. Challenging my brain!

More about Tesla, page 139/590

Got tons read.. found a sad story about a little match girl.

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Read about the beginnings of Tesla, page 127/590

Mostly news articles today

Learnt about the beginnings of SpaceX until around 2004, page 115/590

Started reading “Cultural China: Highlighting the Start of Autumn with the Lingering Summer Heat and the Chirping of Cicadas” in Mylingua. Not long but with my limited ability found it challenging....

Started (re-)reading Homage to Catalonia. Challenging in Chinese but a great book.

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Bible, story about paper cutting, anki, mylingua, duolingo and more!

Read about Musk's year after Paypal and his first ideas about going to Mars, page 88/590

Reading a story on Du Chinese app "The Necklace"