We're a bit light on podcasts this week, but we have another HSK reading exercise for all of you today. If you haven't taken the HSK but are considering sitting for the national Chinese proficiency exam, this sample test is a great place to start. The biggest challenge for most people is completing it on time: in a real test situation you would have no more than twelve minutes to answer these fifteen questions.

Otherwise, you can expect our next Sinica episode to come out late Friday night, with publication of our regular podcast lessons then resuming over the weekend. If you're an intermediate or advanced student hungering for new material in the meantime, why not check out our lesson archives? If you sign-in and use our personal calendar, you'll be shown only those lessons you have not already bookmarked. This is a convenient way to sift through our archives and find old lessons that are still new to you.