Not sure if it is actually IP but I think I am going to use that term to describe myself because I passed HSK 5 a couple months already, without any formal Mandarin study.

My problem of current stage is that I feel too much pain from reading and my reading speed is too low when I read any ‘real’ native book. However, the graded readers are too boring to me too. I’m quite fine when watching some videos like VLOG or pop-sci, etc. But the problem of watching them is I feel too lazy to look up. That’s make a lot slower progress than reading, which I really look up A LOT.

My quick solution for now is that I am going to establish the habit of reading some short article in Pleco reader for boost my vocabularies to help me feel less pain when reading books. 微信 is such a good platform to implement this since their article is quite easy to copy a link to be use in Pleco web reader. And it is free of charge! 微博 is another choice for reading in their platform because they let the iOS menu be there when I long-press words. The last option is reading book in MacOS because it is more convenient to look up than in E-ink reader machine, which is super slow for look up if you look up A LOT.

Anyway, I think this problem will probably phase out if I have more vocabularies in my brain.

I have no idea where to put this thought on because it is look like very personal and also cannot be count as win or progress. Secondly, I have figured out the solution already but not so sure if it works. So, it feel a little bit show off if I post it in the ‘win-progress’ channel on Refold’s server or just post it on my Facebook, which feel pretty off since many people don’t care how to learn languages.

Thanks anyone who read this journal.

我会努力的！

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