Reading challenge, November 2020

Read as much Chinese as you can before the end of the month! More details and suggestions for what (and how) to read can be found in the attached article.


Recent activities

30 minutes

Mandarin companion breakthrough reader - finished one chapter and then reread whole chapter to refresh memory of what happened.

Sunday, Nov 15

Jin
28 minutes

Finished Vol.1 of Ajin: Demi-Human 《亚人》 (繁体字). Still getting by on good guesses with unfamiliar traditional characters. Still hoping to catch up to the anime ASAP. Noted 诱饵 because even though the ...

Sunday, Nov 15

Esther
60 minutes

Finished the book about Qin Shi Huang. It says it's a 750-character level book, but the words used and annotated are often very specialized and only used once in the book. That's not the design I'd...

Sunday, Nov 15

杜雁子
30 minutes

Chairman's Bao HSK3 articles. Many non HSK3 words in some of them, but didn't seem exceedingly complicated

Sunday, Nov 15

rand
30 minutes

WordSwing: completed the Wandering Cat story (125/150)

Sunday, Nov 15

Ilia
25 minutes

Chinese Breeze Grade Reader Series, Level 1 我可以请你跳舞吗?(26/45) I was thinking to read all these Graded Readers, from the Level 1 to the highest one! The story is pretty interesting, and I think tha...

Sunday, Nov 15

Renzo Braga
95 minutes

Reading 撒哈拉的故事. Started the 荒山之夜 (Night on a barren mountain) chapter. San Mao described on the last chapter Saharan wedding customs and the suffering of a girl from her neighbourhood that was fo...

Sunday, Nov 15

quack 嘎本
60 minutes

Read two new short stories from HSK reading site...Talking About The Weather (Tan2 Tian1Qi4) and Buying Some Fruit (Mai3 Shui2 Guo3) I read through the stories, then, I wrote them out in the chin...

Sunday, Nov 15

Tessa Hall
70 minutes

哆啦A梦:第二卷 (128/191) Chapters read: 1. 城市太郎;2.静香的羽衣; 3.撒谎镜子;4.时间包袱皮;5.百发百中手相图;6.老狼一家;7.N和S徽章 New gadgets: 1.城市太郎娃娃;2.飘带;3.撒谎镜子;4.时间包袱皮;5.百发百中手相图;6.月光灯;7.NS徽章 (the chapters sometimes actually presen...

Sunday, Nov 15

Renzo Braga
30 minutes

Chinese For US HSK 2 reading.

Sunday, Nov 15

文佰川
40 minutes

Chapter 13 of "Family" -- It's New Year's Eve and the whole family is there to eat 年饭 and generally have a good time. Some of the characters end up playing drinking games 行酒令 (after reading, I had...

Saturday, Nov 14

Esther
25 minutes

Finished reading the last part of yesterday's story ( Niǔyuē de liúlián xiānsheng (Mr. Durian in New York- part 3). Started reading another short story (Let's Build a Snowman) from https://hskread...

Saturday, Nov 14

Tessa Hall
8 minutes

找不着北

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen
10 minutes

找不着北

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen
9 minutes

找不着北

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen
10 minutes

找不着北

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen
10 minutes

找不着北

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen

Cliff Larsen joined the challenge!

Saturday, Nov 14

Cliff Larsen
15 minutes

In the Sinolingua reader, Qin Shi Huang is now 20 years old and has exiled his mom. (She wasn't all that nice herself, but still.)

Saturday, Nov 14

杜雁子
50 minutes

Read 2 chapters of 《一個人好想吃》by 高木直子 and 2 Du Chinese lessons

Saturday, Nov 14

Amy Blake
34 minutes

美好的前途 (下) 第八章

Saturday, Nov 14

老爸满恩德

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.quack 嘎本35.02175%
2.gaojian_studygram34.43344%
3.文佰川 25.62102%
4.Esther24.81124%
5.Renzo Braga23.78118%
6.老爸满恩德22.93114%
7.Pavel21.59143%
8.Vic Sheldon20.55102%
9.Olle Linge20.34101%
10.Kaynis20.27101%
11.Ilia19.4292%
12.tiwi19.1795%
13.Amy Blake18.83188%
14.Kevin Lee15.56103%
15.Jorrit van der Heide14.1878%
16.Juan Diego (俊伟)12.4495%
17.Kim12.37123%
18.packupthemoon11.33113%
19.Bianca Licassali Lucindo11.17111%
20.Cheryl Wang11.1555%
21.Peter W10.92109%
22.Ed Kalas10.83108%
23.Anna Grivtseva 安娜10.6871%
24.花谢月令10.5852%
25.character10.48104%
26. Cody10.44104%
27.Tessa Hall10.18101%
28.Michael Prokopchuk10.17101%
29.Eleanor J10.16101%
30.Sander 森德10.08100%
31.Paul269.5795%
32.Swimmingcat599.25102%
33.Milja8.9944%
34.Alyssaaaaaaaaaa8.59171%
35.Jin7.4174%
36.rand7.050%
37.Pami6.6666%
38.lvhitch6.0960%
39.Warren Lammert5.9459%
40.馬笑天5.6628%
41.Antonina5.1832%
42.fay5.050%
43.杜雁子4.896%
44.Lilian4.47111%
45.Alexa 4.26142%
46.乐乐4.13103%
47.JuJuA88884.1182%
48.Caitlin 3.85128%
49.Lee3.4234%
50.JN3.3466%
51.Mac The Womble / 西非同3.0930%
52.JD3.04152%
53.Emilie3.042%
54.Kristen Harrison2.9674%
55.Thomas V2.9197%
56.Tyler T2.7769%
57.Amity Claggett2.7290%
58.Megan/艾珍2.6626%
59.zack2.65132%
60.Troy2.62131%
61.daBABY?2.553%
62.Anthony Perna2.58%
63.Anxi2.4924%
64.Aidan Kerwin g6 p2 Chinese2.44122%
65.Brady 2.4381%
66.cindy2.317%
67.AveryPonyCakes2.2575%
68.Madelyn 2.2110%
69.Ryan:)2.1872%
70.Parker2.13106%
71.liver👻2.12212%
72.Jules2.0941%
73.Anish Prasad2.0820%
74.Scott123452.08208%
75.Quinnc1.9828%
76.EllaTheBear1.9539%
77.史康斯1.9264%
78.Ollie1.963%
79.Valeria 1.8994%
80.Hailey1.8894%
81.Nic(^○^)1.8793%
82.Madden B1.8614%
83.Ellieeee1.8145%
84.TATumm1.890%
85.Bella1.7587%
86.madeleine 1.785%
87.Mr vegetable1.6727%
88.Natalia Ortiz1.6683%
89.Yankees4WorldSeries20211.60%
90.Gregan1.5715%
91.Lillian 1.5717%
92.Ayşe Nur1.5522%
93.aVa mAvA*1.54154%
94.Rae1.510%
95.Michael F.1.4514%
96.HSquared1.4235%
97.liisabella101.3913%
98.Daniel Rich1.3313%
99.Cliff Larsen1.326%
100.HawkinsonAnnika90190771.326%
101.The Big Cheese 1.19119%
102.Asia1.1711%
103.Estefanía1.0815%
104.Wa90193611.0310%
105.Wolfi1.05%
106.Father, I wish to consume the cheddar.0.990%
107.tanner0.929%
108.BevisTy ( -_- )0.7676%
109.Molly S0.757%
110.Alicia MSA0.510%
111.Alexia0.550%
112.LS0.55%
113.Jrainwater0.4747%
114.jk0.4321%
115.Nat0.424%
116.madison0.3712%
117.leo0.252%
118.Bevis original (legit) 0.171%
119.Catherine Lundgren0.081%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants171
Hours reported880.85
DurationNovember 10, 2020 to
November 30, 2020 (21 days)