Category: Journey

2025 was a busy and stressful year, as I had many things going on in my life, which unfortunately took up much of my time and mental energy.

As a result, the time I could dedicate to reading in Chinese decreased significantly. My motivation to work on this blog was also low due to difficulty focusing for long periods to write.

However, I did compensate for the lack of reading with other means, such as playing games entirely in Chinese (with Chinese audio, subtitles, and UI), watching informative YouTube videos on Chinese history, and engaging with Red Note (a popular Chinese social media platform).

2024 has been a crazy year for my Chinese journey and other aspects of my life. I started this blog, I finished reading 天官赐福 in Chinese, and I finally feel that I’ve reached a comfortable spot in my Chinese journey.

In this post, I’ll talk about my blogging journey, things I’ve learnt from it, where my Chinese is, and some of my favourite media of the year.

Not only is this post for me to recap in the future but also, I hope, as an inspiration for you. I know you all love reading journey posts, so here goes…

I will share with you my experience of spending 18 months reading original Chinese novels every single day — novels I had previously not read in another language or consumed the story in another form (i.e. a TV show or movie).

I jumped straight into original Chinese work because reading something like Harry Potter in Chinese just didn’t interest me. I’m generally not interested in re-reading books, even in another language.