Today : 4 hr 20 min
- 2 hours 35 Hello chinese. Did 6 lessons, 6 to go.
- 1 hour Vocab, > three is going slow....
- 30 minutes coursera
- 15 minutes Reading and listening on Mandarin Bean
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Challenge 3: Challenge 1: HSK 4 in a month - IN PROGRESS
Challenge 2: Reading and writing level up! - IN PROGRESS FAILED
Challenge 1: HSK 0 to 3 exam in 1 month - COMPLETE
Today : 4 hr 20 min
Today: 5 hours 15 min
So I am definitely in the vocab zone, upgraded my HSK2 vocab from 85% to 100% today and started on HSK 3 and up 5%. That's more than 35 words gained today!!!
Was too lazy to do a mock test though... Using work breaks for Hello Chinese def helped coz then only had to find time for vocab and coursera before bed and so may actually sleep early today I also found a new reading site, Mandarin Bean, and will begin adding a few minutes of that in
Cumulative time thus far: 52
Today: 5 hours
So I created a new plan for the next 12 days before the exams... let's see how long I stick to it... it's now countdown mode so I will be doing more mock tests, and trying to read as much as possible. Work is still going to be a priority so I am going to just cram all my breaks with mandarin to try have a minimum of 4 hours a day
Vocab test first,
HSK2 Mock test - much better
I know a rest day when the exams are less that two weeks away... It was glorious day and I spent it in the garden... Levelled some ground, created new flower beds, mowed and weeded the lawn!!! just no chinese... well 2 min of Hello Chinese to not lose my streak and some dram before bed. I was supposed to do mock exams today but was too tired so will do those tomorrow since it's a public holiday
Today: 2 hours 30 min
Today: 5 hours 45 min
Needed to play catch-up and boy did I ever!!!
So I was thinking of cancelling my HSK 3 booking but the payment was received before I could, so I took it as serendipity -(or stupidity, only future me will know) So the aim now is get all my vocab for HSK 2 down, then slowly add HSK 3 hoping to get half of he word in. Slowly work on some grammar coz that will def be needed for HSK 3. So I'm dropping writing totally and not focusing too much on speech either. Main focus is getting my reading as close to perfect as possible, listening with precision and figuring out sentence structure. That way I'll pass the exams... but will need to go back in future to get the speech and writing. I reckon it may even be fun because the vocab will slot in and make learning easier. I have begun to hear some words in cdramas but because I watch at 1.5 or 2x speed well...
... can put you to sleep....
Well that's what happened to me, 30 min in or so. I just drifted away. Guess I was bushed.
Time ca~ 30 min
Hours = 3
Work has been hectic busy and also been helping with my baby nephew... sleepless nights and no extra hours... so focusing just on getting that vocab in and transitioning form pinyin to get my reading better. Beginning to realise how I was relying a ton on the pinyin sigh. Better wean myself now.
Day 19
Hello Chinese app 30 minutes
Vocab Sticky study 1 hour
Day 20
Hello Chinese app 30 minutes
Vocab Sticky study 1 hour
Today 1 hour 50 minutes
vocab for 30 minutes -> HSK 2 vocab seems harder lol.
Coursera lessons -> 1hr 20 minutes
So discovered HSK 3 has no pinyin ?♀️??
Today 3 hours -> Total hours = 34
Testing 2 hours 15 minutes .
Did a vocab test first,
HSK1 Mock test - Last one at HSK 1 moving to HSK 2 now
HSK2 Mock test - saw fire...
40 minutes Vocab,
5 min Hello Chinese > to keep my streak lol
Todays hours 3 hours
Spent the whole day procrastinating, now trying to get some hours in... I discovered a new app, first paid one, called stickystudy. It made me realise I was learning all my vocab as units and not the individual characters. E.g. I can recognise bei zi for cup but not bei or zi by themselves ?♀️ so kinda feels like staring afresh.. For the example may just focus on units though, will be faster, but then again the ground work of individual characters can give me gain later... sigh.
Todays hours 4 hours 10 minutes.
Trying to play catch-up I realised that I need to figure out a way to speed up learning if I'm to get minimum 300 words in, 600 seems like a pipe dream. or 300 I need to learn about 14 words a day in the next 21 days, as I already know about 100 if i focus that is doable.... for HSK 3 I'd need to learn 24 words a day. Pin yin only may work... characters ha!!! But I'm gonna try anyway. I reckon I'll still write the exam... maybe. I don't know. If I pass two I'll likely skip 3 and go straight to 4 So I'm thinking maybe write it anyway even if I fail.. decision decisions.
Super Lazy... just going to do an hour of passive listening.. lol i.e cdrama
Today hours: 45 min
Slow day, was super busy, now its 11:30..
So just going to do a couple of Coursera lessons 30min
and some vocab before bed. 15min
Today's hours: 1.5
LOL I l looked up HSK 3 600 words so a tonne more, but that's not the issue.. writing is!!! I only know maybe 5 characters off by heart We'll see. Lets focus on two ad see how far I ge this week first. I may have to change my game plan. Regurgitating and cramming, and exam technique is easy for 1 and 2, but HSK 3 seems to be a different beast, so how to best get through 1 and 2 fast and yet benefit 3... mmm. I only have 9 days before payment deadline so I need to strategise.
Today's hours -> 2.8
Well I've finally caught up updating so log is now current After yesterday's good mock tests, I am wondering if I cant even just go for HSK 3? More research needs to be done, regardless I registered for it... I'll pay if it seems feasible LOL
Today 3.1 hours -> cumulative 20.2 hours
Another good day,
Basically about halfway 40 hours in so want to see if I could pass an HSK 1 exam.
Today 2.8 hours
Good session. Focus on vocab today to try and get as many words in as possible. Managed to register for HSK 2 will, pay next week.
Today 1.6 hours
Worked on Hello Chinese and other apps for 1.6 hours.
No work done today, just too lazy.. especially after realising I cant write mid May... so am thinking maybe double down and go for HSK 2 in June....
Day 1. 29 April - 5 hours 30 minutes
So I read somewhere that HSK 1 can be done in 40 hours... so I decided ok lets try that then.
I have minimal learning exposure -I did some Yoyo Chinese pinyin about a year ago, and one coursera lesson when i decided to learn guzheng. But 40 hours is doable so hey why not.
On the other hand I have a lot of hours... thousands... under my belt of Chinese drama. Thing is I watch it usually at 2x speed so cant pick out a lot of individual words... I may have to slow hat down now sigh.
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Day 2. 30 April
Spent 4 hours on coursera...
Day 3. 1 May
Day 4. 2 May
Day 5. 3 May
Nothing
Day 6. 4 May
Nothing
Day 7. 5 May
Tried to register for exam No luck seems home based is only in June... such a bummer But still could not register for that either.. finally got hold of CI and they said the site is down for now... so will retry in a couple of days time.