Participation
in Reading challenge, April 2018



120 minutes
2.0h

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.

80 minutes
1.33h

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

90 minutes
1.5h

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.

90 minutes
1.5h

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

60 minutes
1.0h

Took time reading a story without dictionary several times and guessing unknown words. Finally, checked in dictionary.

60 minutes
1.0h

Read yesterday's stories again. One new article from The Chairmans Bao

90 minutes
1.5h

2 articles from 汉语读取, one lower level and I knew more than 90% of the words so easy to understand. The new words were interesting. The higher level article was interesting but only knew around 50% so needed dictionary and several readings to understand. In fact I need to go back to it today. One article on The Chairman's Bao. HSK4 good level for me to understand easily.

30 minutes
0.5h

One article on Chairman's Bao, HSK4. Also listened to recording. Some useful phrases to pick up.

70 minutes
1.17h

2 stories from 汉语趣读. Higher level had too many unknown words. One article from Chairman's Bao HSK3. Interesting article about photographing leopards, with just a few new words that are useful for reading. Then flashcards in Chairman's Bao.

90 minutes
1.5h

I read Olle's article on extensive reading and have changed my approach. I read 2 articles from a learner's collection of stories 汉语趣读. Lowered my level to HSK 3 and 4 on Chairman's Bao and read 2 articles. It worked. I came across several same phrases twice. Reading each article 3 times was quicker and I started to notice and review grammar patterns as I wasn't struggling for meaning.

120 minutes
2.0h

autobiography, 杨绛,我们仨。First reviewed vocab in Pleco for 2 pages previously read. Then re-read these pages. Read 2 more pages for gist, then read again and found and saved vocabulary.
Chairman's Bao, joined and read one article and reviewed vocabulary.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:93.8%
Score15.0
Rank2nd
Hours reported15.0
Goal16h