Reading challenge, November 2020

北京摺疊

Starting reading at my level now: Chinese translation of 4th edition of "Languages and Children: Making the Match" by Curtain & Dahlberg.

Read "Sports Fan", another Sinolingua reader that claims Intermediate Low ACTFL proficiency level. Full page illustrations; feels rather vocabulary-driven rather than story-like. (All about how the...

Finished the Jack Ma (mini) book.

Finished chapter 9 of Great Expectations part 2. Only 2 chapters more to finish this great story. Would like to continue and finish the book right now, but I think I’d better leave something for to...

中国式的圣诞节 (Christmas in China) short story. Thought I would give HSK 5 level a try tonight.

Reading 撒哈拉的故事 Couldn't sleep, so I finished the 天梯 (Starway To Heaven) chapter. Found a really nice idiom, 賣關子, "To sell Guanzi". I think it's used for when you keep something from someone in se...

Read an article for tomorrow's class out loud for myself. Got through it in half the time I did yesterday!

Word swing text adventure “逃出去”。 Another 3 tries, 155/155 points.

Read a Du Chinese article about wedding chengyu

整容游戏（快看漫画） Chapters： 26. 小黑记不得易蓉了？；27.易蓉和小黑的约会；28. 小黑的超直觉；29. 易蓉的主角光环；30. 易蓉性感的模样； 31.手机里的秘密； 32. 有人放火？; 33. 离死亡一线之隔；34. 小黑舍命救易蓉！； 35. 结束这一切吧； 36. 整容游戏的争夺战； 37. 姐姐遇见了小黑（上）； 37. 姐姐拼命寻找易蓉（下）；38. 小黑的...

Went back and read all of the reading comprehension narratives in IC ! Workbook.

After seeing Olle Linge's post about "Folding Beijing", I checked out the first chapter. I also read chapter 18 of Ba Jin's "Family". My takeaway quotation is, “你以为一个人应该把自己的快乐建筑在别人的痛苦吗？” I was a...

HP4

Started Journey to the Center of the Earth MC. Level 2!! I read 1 chapter. I've been trying to get to Level 2 for months, but now I can finally understand it ok!

Read 3 chapters of Mandarin Companion Great Expectation Book 2 and 6 chapters of Du Chinese The Human Chair (finished). Read 1 chapter of 《深夜食堂22》comic.

At the middle of the forth chapter of Harry Potter. New words: 巨人，巫师。I'm interested in 提鼻涕，but there were almost no examples in baidu, so I'm going to ask my chinese friend, if I can use 提 with 鼻涕 ...

Reading 撒哈拉的故事 Still through the 天梯 (Starway To Heaven) chapter. San Mao found a driving teacher that was interested in Chinese culture and philosophy. She asked him if he knew Zhuangzi and he sa...

I studied the glossary and read about a class learning about milk.