# Aleksa (翱磊)'s Study Log

**URL:** <https://community.hanzihero.com/t/aleksa-s-study-log/3394>\
**Category:** Study Logs\
**Created:** [October 18, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/aleksa-s-study-log/3394 "2024-10-18T17:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/aleksa-s-study-log/3394/22 "2025-05-08T23:25:44Z")

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# As of today (May 8, 2025):

- **873 skipped**
  - 38 skipped, learned
  - 835 skipped, unlearned

- 995 learned
  - **957 learned, unskipped**
  - 38 learned, skipped

**total** : 1,830 characters (**[learned]** union **[skipped]**)

## Reading and speaking (with my partner)

So, I made another post talking about some resources for books and stuff, which I’m quoting at the bottom here.

However, I’ve finally started reading 活着 and it’s going relatively well! I guess the software I used to analyze words I needed to learn didn’t catch everything. So, while I’m reading, I’m still highlighting and add a bunch of words to My Dictionary.

A compromise I’ve essentially made with my partner is that I read 活着 out loud to him. This is good because

1. I get speaking practice (sort of)
2. I’m forcing myself to actually pronounce words that I’ve been learning
3. He catches the words I’m saying wrong because they’re _duoyinzi_ or because they’re rare enough that I can’t find them in the Dictionary on here
4. I get to practice building the natural(ish) tone of reading stories

I mentioned the free books because the show _The First Frost_ is said to be a good show and an even better novel. I just can’t get through even the third episode!! It’s definitely a slow build type of show, but I guess I just don’t enjoy the _cold and indifferent_ versus _the one wondering ‘what if’_ trope. I’m gonna try to push through.

Anyway!! I found the book for free online. I was not about to spend $25 USD to order it when I KNOW _real_ well that people overseas are getting it for less than $5.

> [@SoCal, Orange County, Costa Mesa Library + More "Hacks"](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/socal-orange-county-costa-mesa-library-more-hacks/5828/1):
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> _ **Free books** _
> 
> - Who doesn’t love free!
> - You can find a LOT of books _in Chinese_ on Google if you just type the title of the book (in Chinese) followed by .txt
> - I used this to do a cross analysis of words I’ve learned on HH versus words I “don’t know” yet in the books to then fish out vocabulary to add to My Dictionary on HH 🙂

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