HSK 0 to HSK6 -> 1 month Challenges to learning mandarin

2hr 20 reading on du chinese, it gets easier as I go :)

Love my hsk 1 writing book, it stats with easier characters so been smooth sailing so far now at char 58

First it was camp, I did spend 30 minutes reading out there in the bundu on the du app... that's something

Then I cam back and I just could not figure out where to begin

Then a week passed...

Then I printed the first 200 characters from a frequency list -> so many new words spent some time on the first 30 or so

Then I read from Du a bit

Then I thought maybe a need a copy book, so went on Amazon and ordered a few... they arrived yesterday, So spent time on 1 characters...

To say I am behind is an understatement. Basically wasted half a month. Lets see what I can salvage in the last few days

Total Time spent

Reading: 1 hour 30 min

Writing: 1 hour 25min

Characters I can write approx 30

Well not quite nothing, I practiced one character that counts right? We are off camping tomorrow so I will take my study material with me... just not sure how much will get done over the next three days with minions in tow. Maybe I should find the characters for marshmallows and smores and write those ?

Not a bad day overall spent two hours copying script on my tablet... and then tried form memory... much harder then but we shall persevere!

So to get going again I am starting a new challenge. I've had a 3 week break so it's time to consolidate and build up areas that I did not focus on before. I will also be beginning Korean this month but real slow. I know my target speeds are ambitious... but that's what makes it a challenge

Challenge 2: Reading and writing level up!

• handwriting and typing all HSK3 600 characters in 1 month -> target speed of 40 characters per minute
• and reading well, to read an HSK 3 book by month end -> target speed of 40 characters per minute

Today I was gathering materials and making a game plan.

• Found tons of writing practice PDF's
• work on minimum 20 characters a day, writing, typing
• I will finish the HSK 3 course on coursera.
• I will work on Hello Chinese again, use sticky study ever so often to keep my vocab.
• My English typing is slow so I'll be training to touch type as well, else I'll never get to typing 40 chars a minute
• I'm going through character book reviews to see if I'll like to use any of them
• I will use learning with texts - I'll use a lot of songs I've come to love and poetry and idioms, yes this will be extra vocab that I don't know but I enjoy the material more so...
• I will use new reading sites e.g. little fox, chairmans bao, duchinese, dong chinese
• join the tadoku reading challenge
• also add anki sentences into the mix

Worked on the first 20 characters.