Extensive reading challenge, August 2015

Read in order to read a lot, quantity matters more than quality. It's okay to skip words, it's even desirable. You read to understand most of what's going on, but not everything. It should be fun to read and using dictionaries to look up unknown words typically isn't all that fun.


Recent activities

60 minutes

Monday, Aug 24

naphta
60 minutes

Just finished reading 活着。I found the story easy to read at intermediate level. The language is coarse, but the story is very touching.

Monday, Aug 24

Majiya
100 minutes

撒哈拉的故事

Monday, Aug 24

Sara K.
60 minutes

reading a few beginner-level short stories and re-reading two chairman's bao articles to consolidate the knowledge a bit.

Monday, Aug 24

Zach!
120 minutes

Read and re-read two pages' worth of an "easy" book. It can only get faster with practice.

Sunday, Aug 23

Ursula Kallio
10 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

nadav
8 minutes

marcopoloproject

Sunday, Aug 23

Sharon
30 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

naphta
15 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

naphta
40 minutes

Translation exercise

Sunday, Aug 23

Sharon
15 minutes

Magazine article on inner beauty

Sunday, Aug 23

Sharon
75 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

Majiya
15 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

nadav
6 minutes

Song lyrics

Sunday, Aug 23

Sharon
40 minutes

Sunday, Aug 23

shannon.aitken@gmail.com
20 minutes

Saturday, Aug 22

Ursula Kallio
10 minutes

Saturday, Aug 22

Ursula Kallio
29 minutes

撒哈拉的故事

Saturday, Aug 22

Sara K.
60 minutes

Started reading Lu Xun's novel "The True Story of Ah Q", will continue in the days to come.

Saturday, Aug 22

Millard Waltz
90 minutes

Saturday, Aug 22

Majiya
11 minutes

Chairman's Bao: Boy opens a stall to buy drinks for his grandparents, and North Korea gets a new time zone.

Saturday, Aug 22

Sharon
7 minutes

marcopolo project: first part of weixin vs. weibo

Saturday, Aug 22

Sharon
30 minutes

主席日报

Saturday, Aug 22

character
7 minutes

Learning Tip Yi Lin 3B Unit 1

Saturday, Aug 22

Annamaria Alfonso
60 minutes

afew chapters of Harry Potter

Friday, Aug 21

Millard Waltz

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Linkhttp://www.hackingchinese.c...
Participants64
Hours reported194.42
DurationAugust 10, 2015 to
August 31, 2015 (22 days)