Reading challenge, July 2021

Started 火锅家族 thanks to the recommendation of Jamie Lee

I read some of the HSK 1 comics on M Mandarin and it went much better. I was able to understand most of the words and learn some new ones.

Abridged version of 西游记

Reading some chapters on Du Chinese

Reading files copied into Pleco.

Read part 19-22 of 火锅家族， these ones today were particularly funny!! I definitely recommend giving it a read. I even learned a few new words and phrases such as; 表白= confess, 如意= unsatisfactory, no...

Read a bit of 饥饿游戏

WordSwing game where you’re escaping. Much easier to read than when I tried this last year!

I gave up on Pepper and Carrot ep. 3 - there were just too many unknown characters for comfortable reading. Now I'm reading 《火灾》and it's feeling a lot more comfortable.

'清单人生'

Started Great Expectations book 2 and read the first chapter (and a bit of the second chapter)

Finished NIIA article.

DuChinese 蒲松龄的《画皮》

Wordswing的漫画《小辣椒与萝卜头》 第三集到第四集

Reading the news + WordSwing dialogues

《先問，為什麼》

read two idiom story from elementry chinese reader book vloume 2nd

Read short story called 'Evidence'. (mandarincorner.com)

Reread 'The Payback' (mandarincorner.com)

Finished chapter 2 of 骆驼祥子 and started 第三章！The main character, an orphan boy working as a rickshaw in 1920s Beijing (then 北平）certainly endures some hardships.

Read the story “画龙点睛” (15min) + read two short stories on DuChinese “上豆瓣看一看” and “你不知道的那个” (5min)

NBA articles and Twitter

Read chapter 2 of The Moon Sculpture Left Behind (留在中国的月亮石雕 Chinese Breeze)

Read 18 pages of 月下老人 graded reader.