Reading challenge, November 2020

One chapter of Emma Mandarin Companion Level 1 (traditional characters though... harder) Also a game on wordswing

霍比特人 (The Hobbit)

Finished chapter 6 of Great Expectations 1.

Pomodoro session reading Chapters 1-3 of Mandarin Companion's "Country of the Blind/盲人国" + 5 mins vocab review.

It's nice to see that I know more than I think I know! I believe these kids newspapers are actually going to be good reading material and will be more enjoyable than I expected.

60-minute analogue reading session from 「履歷表」. Happy that a lot of the words I had highlighted in the past are easy to understand these days (I started the book over since it’s been almost a decade...

Another chapter of Family. At this point, I am understanding the character's personalities a lot more and how their approaches to different situations. I am definitely seeing some themes running th...

I finished the first chapter of 哈利波特与魔法石。There were some new words, but I didn't check all of them, because could understand the meaning. It's very much of help, that I read this book in my mother ...

reading the news: 拜登可望延续印太战略 联手抗中面临三大挑战

Read 1 chapter of 两件红衬衫 and an article for my class tomorrow.

Today’s Intensive reading - Taiwan CDC Instagram account (@taiwancdc) from 11/3 and 11/10. Not focusing on the caption text yet just pictures as I notice my brain goes blank anytime the font gets d...

HP4

Evening: Finished chapter 4 of Great Expectations 上

I started reading “哈利波特与魔法石头‘ from the very beginning. I've never read it before. I like it! I didn't finish the first chapter, because looked up some new words and characters in the dictionary. Th...

Started Jeff Pepper's “西游记” graded reader. Got through about half of book 1, “猴王的诞生”. Seems to be quite easy, maybe even easier than “电脑公司的秘密” from Chinese Breeze...

Revising Chapter 1 and 2 TSG.

Textbook

Going through some graded readers (for now, below my level, looking for good stories to share with students). I read "The Cowherd & the Weaver Girl", Sinolingua