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

It’s been hectic with travelling so anti and my turtle book have been my friends. I am now on chapter 12 in Tuttle. Revision of husk 1 is complete, Husk 2 and 3 still in progress HSK vocab only at about 50 words in….

Im attending and helping in a wedding this week, so it will likely be more of the same.

No I haven't fallen off the bandwagon... yet lol
day 10 I revised coursera HSK 1 - not sure why i did it was too easy, but I'll believe it was reinforcement, continued with vocab learning

day 11 to 15, vocab on anki, it has been slow going because I'm travelling soon and work is busy. So I plan to sue my transit and waiting for flights time to do the rest of the coursera and start on edex courses so for now just anki, only about 50 words learnt for HSK4 and still have HSK 3 leeches grrr I had hoped to have all my vocab by the 20th... not sure I'll make it so I hope I cover grammar by then and then just keep working on the vocab till month end

Still working on the words, taking longer than anticipated, mainly because 3 took longer to review and I'm only spending about 40 minutes a day on vocab. Currently only have time for anki and not much else so have begun to also shadow the speaking phrases and not just focus on characters and vocab.

Tsitsi

Vocab Reviewing going good, and slowly learning new vocab for HSK 4
Still on anki and Tuttle book, hope to ad sticky study tomorrow and well as some grammar revision soon.

Life happened and mandarin was a casualty. So challenge 2 was a failure.

But I was reminded that I did want to learn this language properly lol I also recently joined a Chinese orchestra and feel lost lol, so learning is paramount

My personality is that I am competitive and like setting challenges for myself; so this April I'm starting a new challenge -> Get to an HSK 4 level in a month. Why a month? coz I say so...

Day 1 figuring out my materials and resources

• I have installed lute for my reading and uploaded a ton of books
• I plan to read at least 15 minutes a day
• I have loaded my anki decks and will begin with revising HSK 1 and 2 over the next few days
• I have gotten my text book and character books ready

My main resources

1. Tuttle Chinese Characters
2. Lute and Du Chinese for reading
3. Sticky Study and Anki - refold deck for hanzi and vocab SRS
4. Grammar book - New Practical Chinese Reader plus Chinese Gramma wiki
5. Coursera courses on YouTube, EdX Beginner ad Intermediate Chinese
6. YouTube and Instagram channels that I come across when doom scrolling
7. anything else that takes my fancy... 30 days is along time lol

Some things to note for this challenge

• I plan to take a mock test before starting to see what I would score, as a bench mark and to see what I still remember. I don't think it will be that bad because I still watch a ton of Chinese drama so even with subtilties I think some decay has happened but not an astronomical amount. The past year I have done very little study, anki says less than 1 hour same a using mylingua only a handful of times for around 5 minutes
• figure out how to measure the time used, so trying to create a tracker of sorts on notion or with python just so I see what I really spend time on
• I will not actively practice writing unless I totally bored and have time to mess around. 
• I will start practicing to type on PC and not just on my phone