Vocabulary challenge, October 2020

jgodfrey2 joined the challenge!

Anki vocab review. Started looking up "leeches" in the Outlier Mini dictionary, which is helping me understand the components, and thus remember the characters/words better. Don't know why I didn't...

Words from 3 articles from Mandarin Bean and Lesson 51 of Assimil Chinese.

Ed Kalas joined the challenge!

queue: 299 reviews, 0 characters, 10 words learned from new deck.

Reviewed Skritter queue this morning on the Qingdao Metro :).

First cleared my review queue (25 min). Then did some extra reviews of my HSK 5 words (40 min), and finally learned 16 new words from HSK 5 as well (1.5 h).

salisha kwon joined the challenge!

Normal evening routine: HSK 2: reviewed 32. HSK 3: learned 4. LingoDeer: 3 lessons (which nicely matched earlier Drops vocab from Building/City categories). Made note of some words/sentences to br...

Studied radicals, studied characters in subtitles of Donnie Yan's Iceman movie

Phase 2 (active studying of vocabulary): I spent some time taking all the new vocabulary I learned in yesterday’s italki lesson and added them to my 中文課 Notion page. Each word now has a custom exam...

The non writing part of my skritter practice

Boom! Cleared my Skritter cue on a good first day. 311 total review. 2 new characters learned.

Reviewed 60 flashcards out of 499

reduced queue from 1852 to 1116, looked up the words. no new words learned.

卡佳 joined the challenge!

Reviewed vocab using 4 different aps. As usual I remember the vocab aurally and via pinyin better than via characters, unless it is well established vocab.

Worked on breaking down the meaning of some idiomatic expressions heard today on 《演员请就位2》(checked Baidu if necessary). Also worked on example sentences using words from my vocabulary book. I wish I...

HSK 5 + 6 on Skritter, added some new queues as well

Susie joined the challenge!