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

Anna Luiza joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Aug 13

Anna Luiza
15 minutes

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...

Wednesday, Aug 13

Funmi
25 minutes

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

Wednesday, Aug 13

峻鸿
107 minutes

Wow. Just couldn't stop reading!!!

Wednesday, Aug 13

Cliff Larsen
72 minutes

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

Wednesday, Aug 13

Akobato
10 minutes

Tuesday, Aug 12

LLLS
30 minutes

Still going with the same article. Challenging my brain!

Tuesday, Aug 12

Sammy
51 minutes

More about Tesla, page 139/590

Tuesday, Aug 12

Akobato
71 minutes

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

Tuesday, Aug 12

Cliff Larsen

Rogue joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 12

Rogue
54 minutes

Read about the beginnings of Tesla, page 127/590

Tuesday, Aug 12

Akobato
60 minutes

Mostly news articles today

Monday, Aug 11

峻鸿
97 minutes

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

Monday, Aug 11

Akobato
30 minutes

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....

Monday, Aug 11

Sammy
65 minutes

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

Monday, Aug 11

峻鸿

sigeleakosua@gmail.com joined the challenge!

Monday, Aug 11

sigeleakosua@gmail.com
40 minutes

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

Monday, Aug 11

Cliff Larsen
58 minutes

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

Monday, Aug 11

Akobato
45 minutes

Reading a story on Du Chinese app "The Necklace"

Monday, Aug 11

Angela (书歆)
15 minutes

HSK transcript this morning not sure the plan yet but most likely continue with graded readers spent the morning learning Zhuyin so considering switching to traditional now and find graded reade...

Sunday, Aug 10

Funmi

Funmi joined the challenge!

Sunday, Aug 10

Funmi

Angela (书歆) joined the challenge!

Sunday, Aug 10

Angela (书歆)

Sammy joined the challenge!

Sunday, Aug 10

Sammy
54 minutes

I've started reading the Chinese translation of an Elon Musk biography. My hope is I can finish the book by the end of the month, which is a challenge but seems possible. This morning, I read about...

Sunday, Aug 10

Akobato

Akobato joined the challenge!

Sunday, Aug 10

Akobato

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Akobato35.75119%
2.Cliff Larsen13.9899%
3.峻鸿8.5585%
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 reported67.35
DurationAugust 10, 2025 to
August 31, 2025 (22 days)