Reading challenge, April 2018

Intensive reading - a short story. 王小波的一只特立独行的猪 on Popup Chinese. Read several times then checked new words. Could get the gist although a lot of unknown words. Interesting story.

5th chapter of internet story

Just got quizzed by a robot. Three riddles on the Chinese characters he was thinking about. I think I got the satisfaction of guessing correctly that a 7 year old in China would have gotten. Still...

Complete lesson from a text book, 汉语教程。 Good for intensive reading and brushing up grammar and vocabulary.

锤锤腰 老老像棵树， 我想啄木鸟， 举起两个小拳头， 我给姥姥捶腰。 捶得姥姥咯咯笑， 不疼，不疼，不疼了。 By 尹世霖

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愛的往事 第四章

愛的往事 第三章

Still working at Into the Haze. Just about to enter a dark abandoned subway station. Wish me luck.

Concentrating only on Into the Haze. Definitely improving my reading skill. Can guess meanings and most pinyin, but without tones, of almost words I didn't know when I started 10 days ago.

Work memos and emails

Du Chinese

Du Chinese

friend WeChat updates

Du Chinese

reading over the transcript of the video and reviewing vocabulary

Into the Haze and Escape.

More Into the Haze. Also started a little bit of the comics.

Read story from 汉语趣读. Too many unknown words. Read one from Chairman’s Bao. Useful vocab. TCB flashcards - can remember recently read but have completely forgotten older ones.

Wordswing Into the Haze. Was able to get to a 2nd checkpoint. Also reading the Escape game, but the text is more obscure than Into the Haze. The character translations don't add up on the senten...

愛的往事 第二章

lingq, Steve's Introduction to LingQ

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The Chairman's Bao. Read 2 new stories and did all exercises. Also reviewed some words with their Flashcards.