Three pomodoro sessions this morning to ensure I spent ample time focused on vocabulary. Cleared queue. Studied some new characters from 台灣通用字彙 （第五級）and did a testing activity on all the new vocabulary I learned this month from my Assorted Collection and 2020中文課 decks. Basically, one big review day of many of the things I’ve been learning over the month. Later today I’ll put a bow on this challenge and clear the new cards I learned in the morning.

14 new words learned in Skritter and all additional due cards studied for the day.

time-boxed an hour of studying today. Created a new deck section for last week’s Chinese class vocabulary, wrote example sentences, did some deep digging into usage of some interesting words and phrases, and then added them to my 2020中文課 Skritter deck. Next up, clearing the queue for the day and then learning these new items in Skritter.

Cleared due cards for the day in the evening for the first time since this challenge started. It felt a bit strange to break the routine, but I still had a solid retention rate. Still need to learn some new words this evening before calling it a night to set myself up for a strong finish tomorrow, and hopefully the completion of my target goal of 15h.

(note: it is still Fri. Oct. 30th here as I write this) Pretty sure the Vocabulary Challenge is on Swedish time or something, but I'm planning on reporting my progress until the end of my day tomorrow and editing the submission date if necessary).

Cleared the queue of new characters learned today, and also added a few new words to my Assorted Collection deck for October 2020. Fun one for the evening was 奶爸 since I was hanging with the kiddos until bedtime solo :)

App testing, but really just learning a bunch of new characters from the 台灣通用詞彙（第五級）。Deck is nearly finished at this point, and I will review the words that have been added to my queue later tonight for max gains and possiblity to forget things a bit.

Daily due cards finished

Studying items 21-40 of the Naught Chinese deck (WIP) on Skritter.

Due cards cleared for the morning.

Morning study routine complete. Due cards finished, and a few notes/definitions edited for some pesky cards I’ve gotten wrong a few too many times.

Learning some new new words from 21-40 the Naughty Chinese Instagram deck I’m slowly putting together.

Adding and learning some new vocabulary from Du Chinese readings during lunch break.

早上复习做完了

Sunday morning due cards cleared.

20 minutes of clearing due cards, and 15 minutes of learning some new stuff late last night before bed.

20 minutes to studying and deck creation, and 20 minutes of learning the new material in Skritter. Gotta make a push this weekend to ensure I hit my goal!

Cooking up a spicy study deck based on the Naughty Chinese Instagram account. The posts make me laugh, a lot, and I'll see if I can make this thing public in the future.

Skritter review queue, and a few new characters from 台灣通用字彙 (第五級）

Realized I didn't add my review time from yesterday on HC challenge, so adding it now. Whoops!

Lots of reading practice during lunch today. Added a bunch of new words to my Assorted Collection deck from each of the short readings I was doing. Will be learning them (read: reviewing) via Skritter later and getting them into the daily study queue.

Daily due cards are done for the day!

More character learning this evening from 台灣通用字彙 （第五級）. Section 1 of the deck is finally a wrap tonight, as I continue to fill in the missing gaps of known characters from these decks.

Bundling last nights learning session of six new words from some random articles with 10 minutes of review this morning to clear out the queue.

10 minutes to clear the queue this morning, and another 10 minutes of dead time study while in the checkout line today to add a few more characters to the review queue from 台灣通用詞彙 (第五級）

Due cards cleared for the day. Last night I also added a few words to my Assorted Collection deck from some DuChinese articles I was reading. I find it so much more rewarding to read 5-10 articles in an evening that are “below” my level and pick up a few interesting words that I simple didn’t know of haven’t seen in a while vs. reading one single article that forces me to lookup a million things along the way.

Learned 7 new characters from 台灣通用字彙 （第五級）

Studied all the items in 《木蘭詩》deck and then cleared my review queue for the day. All said and done today was 181 reviews with 6 characters learned, and 15 words learned. Now the real challenge of memorizing the entire poem beings.

Due cards for the day cleared. Goal is still to add 5-10 new characters today. I’m focusing on memorizing the poem I’ve been studying now, so new vocab item adding is on hold until I find a new article, song, etc. to work on.

Added 53 new words to my 《木蘭辭》 study deck and prepped it for a learning session later today. This is the final section of the deck, and once I have all the vocabulary down rock-solid I'll start memorizing this thing for real (finally). Perhaps this weekend 吧！

Absolutely crushed my reviews (including new characters from yesterday) this morning. Have a lot on my plate this week, so I don't mind being super speedy and doing some low-level language maintenance. Filling lots of dead time with podcasts and DuChinese/TCB reading, but that isn't a part of this challenge, so I don't get to track it here :(

Added six new characters to my review queue from 台灣通用字彙 (第五級) and cleared the queue of incorrect cards I got wrong earlier in the day.

Cleared 200 due cards on Skritter while enjoying a cup of coffee. Ready to start the work day!

Cleared all the due cards of things I either got wrong during morning review, or learned during the day when studying from my 《木蘭辭》deck.

Learned 44 words from a section of 《木蘭辭》

Skritter due cards cleared for the day. More learning later during lunch!

Cleared due cards for the new items I learned today. Ended up making a few more updates to custom definitions to make them even better (for me). Vocabulary done for the day.

Cleared the queue of the new items I learned today, and made a few more updates to examples. 179 total reviews learned for the day and 3 unique characters now considered “learned” on Skritter.

Cleared 140 due cards this morning and then studied 9 new characters from 台灣通用字彙（第五級）character deck. Keeping the incorrect cards and the new characters in the due queue for a few hours and will circle back to them during my lunch break.

Added eight new words I wanted to remember long-term into Skritter deck completed a learning mode activity, and then cleared the queue again.

Total Skritter stats for the day--12:12 minutes of study time, 173 reviews, 2 new characters learned, and 8 new words.

Day one is officially a wrap!

Cleared 136 due cards for the day, and learned six new characters—customizing the definitions to include words the characters are contained in. Decided to leave those new items due in the queue for now so I can circle back to them later this even after about 4-5 hours of downtime to make sure they stick for the day.

Phase 2 (active studying of vocabulary): I spent some time taking all the new vocabulary I learned in yesterday’s italki lesson and added them to my 中文課 Notion page. Each word now has a custom example sentence, 相關詞 (where relevant), and a few notes for my sanity. Next step (phase 3) will be to consolidate key vocabulary into Skritter and learn them before the evening is over so they go into the long-term review queue.

If I have time, I’ll also learn 5-10 new Chinese characters from my character deck but that shouldn’t take all that long. Feels like a great day or progress, but I usually don’t have this much free time during the week, so I’d rather get this stuff done now, so I can keep these items fresh during the week when time is a little more limited.

Phase one for the day. The queue is cleared. Updated a few definitions for some pesky words that I wasn’t getting to stick, but beyond that I’m now at 0 items due for the day unless I learn some more. Which, is the plan! I’ll be learning some new characters every day, along with some new words from weekly Chinese classes. This weeks class (yesterday) has quite a few for me to sift through and figure out what’s actually worth committing to an SRS queue.