Reading challenge, July 2021

Du Chinese

The Legend of the Lantern Festival (Graded Reader)

The power of habits (simplified version) https://www.alllanguageresources.com/intermediate-chinese-practice-power-of-habit/#more-9815

Posts on zhihu https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/312380735 https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/260385342

Shadowing

Reading 活着

Graded reader 750 汉字。 四大美女之杨贵妃。 Timed my reading speed. 87 characters per minute.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-42149172.amp

Read parts 30-34 of 火锅家族, realized that 咋 means how, and 不 can be used at the end of a sentence in which the speaker is seeking some kind of agreement, so it can replace 吗, for example, 漂亮吗？， 漂亮不？

Read 3 articles

I read sample lessons on The Chairman's Bao and read comics on the M Manga app.

Taipei People's 尹雪艷 Probably will leave it aside for another book, I'm just about 40-50% comprehension and go really slow. Will finish my manga choice first.

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DuChinese 《礼物》 《陈世美》

Yay! Completed 《火灾》and started on Murder in the Tearoom.

"The Fighting Cricket" by Pu Songling

Read chapters 5 and 6 of Great Expectations book 2

Gaining face - different speeds (watched the video with transcript) https://mandarincorner.org/listen-to-audio-with-transcript/#stories_in_slow_chinese

JiangXia joined the challenge!

Abridged version of 西游记

Read four episodes of "火锅家族", a fable called "先衣服" and a small part (1st chapter) of "美好的前途" (Chinese graded reader book)