Mimicking challenge, November 2016

Choose an audio recording of a native speaker and try to reproduce an exact copy of what what the person says and how he or she does it, including pronunciation, pacing, intonation and so on. Read the attached article for more information.


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720 minutes

The adequate should be to find resources like videos with pinyin subtitles , or even characters . then mimick it... the problem is that there's no subtitles in pinyin nowhere. the problem with th...

Thursday, Nov 17

Hermes Belmont
20 minutes

picked a short CCTV ad. Already meeting the challenge of understanding the entire first sentence, but reproducing a close enough copy.

Thursday, Nov 17

LuX

LuX joined the challenge!

Thursday, Nov 17

LuX
5 minutes

Wednesday, Nov 16

杜雁子
20 minutes

3 Glossika sentences.

Wednesday, Nov 16

naphta

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Wednesday, Nov 16

anton smitsendonk
10 minutes

Wednesday, Nov 16

杜雁子

Kai Carver joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Nov 15

Kai Carver

Petr Novák joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Nov 15

Petr Novák

Majiya joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Nov 15

Majiya
45 minutes

Listening and mimicking same dialogue as day 1

Tuesday, Nov 15

Dion

Jaromír joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Nov 15

Jaromír
30 minutes

I am mimicking sentences from Glossika (3 today, 10 minutes per 2-3 seconds sentence), but I guess I will also use other materials to introduce some variation.

Tuesday, Nov 15

naphta
45 minutes

Listened to a dialogue from my reading class textbook and dictated as I went. Then used audacity to try listening to and recording my attempts at mimicking - was a little tedious. Is there an easy ...

Tuesday, Nov 15

Dion
13 minutes

警察搜查了他们的住所,找到了大量的盗版图书。

Tuesday, Nov 15

pon00050
5 minutes

Morning commute: listening to mp3 & mimicking. It was fun.

Monday, Nov 14

杜雁子

nadav joined the challenge!

Monday, Nov 14

nadav

Dion joined the challenge!

Monday, Nov 14

Dion

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Monday, Nov 14

约瑟
30 minutes

Monday, Nov 14

naphta

EricJMa joined the challenge!

Monday, Nov 14

EricJMa

杜雁子 joined the challenge!

Sunday, Nov 13

杜雁子

naphta joined the challenge!

Sunday, Nov 13

naphta
20 minutes

Started off by mimicking a Chinese drama series called “最好的我们”。 This was a good start but got harder since it was hard to hear the dialogue and also they were speaking too fast. Then shifted to ...

Sunday, Nov 13

Jazzie

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Hermes Belmont92.0100%
2.Dion 10.17101%
3.naphta5.1786%
4.pon000500.8817%
5.Jazzie0.6622%
6.杜雁子0.4120%
7.LuX0.335%
Linkhttp://www.hackingchinese.c...
Participants22
Hours reported109.62
DurationNovember 11, 2016 to
November 30, 2016 (20 days)