Participation
in Reading challenge, April 2017
15 minutes 0.25h
Finished chapter 1 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(下)Great Expectations, Part 2.
Fun, not hard, still sloooow.
30 minutes 0.5h
Started Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(下)Great Expectations, Part 2, got through most of first chapter. I think I need a break!
60 minutes 1.0h
Got to the end of chapter 8 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations.
Seems to be about 20 minutes per chapter, less if not interrupted.
60 minutes 1.0h
Finished Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations, Part 1!
I feel like I read very slowly. In fact, for everything Chinese, it feels like my brain functions about 10 times slower. Presumably I will get faster some day if I keep at it.
In the meantime it's interesting living the life of a C ... h ... i ... n ... e ... s ... e ... t ... u ... r ... t ... l ... e . . .
15 minutes 0.25h
Didn't finish chapter 6 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations. Need more time.
15 minutes 0.25h
Finished chapter 5 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations.
That one was pretty quick. Read it on my phone while eating a 飯糰 and a 豆漿 in front of an OK Mart.
30 minutes 0.5h
Finished chapter 4 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations.
It's going ok. I don't fully understand some turns of phrase, but it's ok. Reading what feels like a children's story in Chinese, I'm reminded of when I was a kid and tore through books without fully understanding everything. Who cares as long as you get the story!
15 minutes 0.25h
Got to chapter 4 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations.
30 minutes 0.5h
In chapter 3 of Mandarin Companion's 美好的前途(上)Great Expectations.
A bit slow.
15 minutes 0.25h
First chapter of Mandarin Companion's Great Expectations Part I 美好的前途(上)simplified characters on Kindle iPad.
Pretty easy, but I had started reading this once before, so it's familiar. Simplified is a bit harder, but practice with Wordswing has made me better at simplified. And Kindle's built-in simplified dictionary is helpful (hey Amazon, why no traditional character dictionary? This is why I chose to buy the simplified edition).
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Goal progress: |
Score | 4.75 |
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Rank | 17th |
Hours reported | 4.75 |
Goal | 7h |