do you need a partner? text me , thanks

Do you Colin, and 罗斯 do it on your own. My Italki teacher recommends that I should focus more on listening and speaking than writing and reading. However my goal is really to read novels in Chinese in a year (now less than 9 months). How do you go about it own your own?

I'm in a similar position. As well as China Breeze I also find the 'Read it now' series useful.

Yeah, definitely the solution is to read more complete texts. Before I did that, my reading was super slow and awful. As Oscar says, kindle books can be very useful because it's easy to look up words. I started with a Chinese novel, but that was pretty intense at that level. I think graded readers are the way to go. I personally used Chinese breeze and thought they were good for reinforcing grammar, but the grammar might be difficult depending on the background.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am considering buying it.