Intermediate · 15 days · ~12 min a day
Chinese for manhua.
Manhua (漫画) are Chinese comics, and most new ones are published online a chapter at a time, in a long vertical scroll made for a phone. They are some of the best reading practice there is: short lines, everyday speech, and a picture that tells you what the words must mean.
A day is marked done when you pass its quiz at the end: get 5 of its 8 questions right.
A reading course: every day is built around what is on the page. Assumes the daily course to about day 15.
How this course is different
A reading course, built around speech bubbles and panels
The particles that carry a character's tone of voice
Sound effects, and how to guess one you have never seen
No series or character is named: every example is written for the lesson
Unit 1 · How manhua read
DAY 1Chapters, updates and scrollingDAY 2Particles in speech bubblesDAY 3Sound effectsDAY 4Narration boxesDAY 5Review: one page
Unit 2 · Everyday talk
DAY 6Friends talkingDAY 7Teasing and banterDAY 8School and workDAY 9Thinking bubblesDAY 10Review: a whole chapter
Unit 3 · Reading well