Reading challenge, April 2019

Standard course HSK 4 - Reading of texts in lesson 2, 3 and 5

Read a complicated HSK 6 article about a kind of stand up comedy (海派清口). A lot of idiom related to comedy and several names in it.

Started reading 秦始皇.

Played through "Burning Building - 火灾"; got 95/105 points.

Pleco reader- this time the 1500 vocab-range Chinese Graded Reader; These are good in that they have audio books attached, and are contemporary literature. A bit bad for me in that Chinese contemp...

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Reading various, beginner level content I find on the web.

Reading radicals and flashcards.

Reading and re-reading Du Chinese newbie texts and NCPR vol. 1, section 4 dialogue

Hemingwayesque description of a school campus of straw houses.

A mix of textbook, comic books and Du Chinese reading; a bit scattered today, but something's better than nothing...

Played through "Escape! - 逃出去", which was quite fun. Got 125/155 points.

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More 第七天

Finished the first chapter of 西游记 and made flashcards for all the words and idioms I didn't know. Also read the second and third chapters without looking up any words but understanding the general ...

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Bald Crane's father tries to cure his baldness with a ginger concoction rubbed on his head.

Reading 余华的第七天。 Have been really interested in the story of marriage.