Reading challenge, March 2020

Wow, I'm enjoying this, but now that I'm reading "at my level" (sort of) it almost seems harder. It's definitely challenging my recall of both characters and sentence structure. I think I need to u...

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西游记读完了！ WOOHOO! finished reading journey to the west, a modernized version. Had started last year, then dropped it for a while, took it up again thanks to this challenge here... now what’s next? A...

I got some of the books by B.Y. Leong and started reading the "HSK 1 Storybook" volume 1. Very beginner, beginning learner short stories. Definitely more my speed. Reading faster really helps get a...

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Finished reading 张爱玲 《牛》. Again read aloud the parts I already studied with focus on strengthening retention of vocabulary learned in past couple days. Read new parts to the end, with some new voca...

Continued detailed reading of 张爱玲 《牛》, re-reading aloud the parts I have read with emphasis on remembering the new vocabulary from last time, as well as read the next new part. New vocab include: 簌...

Work emails, WeChat and some online research about nuts and soy sauce 🙂. I guess it was much more, but I could not measure it, it was very intermittent work today.

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Read the Chinese text of Lessons 1 and 2 of Clavis Sinica Stepping Stones.

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A great description of unconsolable sorrow: 秃鹤不肯起来，泪水分别从两眼角流下来，流到耳根，又一滴一滴落在泥土上，把泥土湿了一片。But Bald Crane wouldn’t get up. Tears dropped from the corners of both his eyes, past his ears. They dropped...