Pronunciation challenge, October 2022

This is a challenge where your goal is to improve your Chinese pronunciation. Please read the linked article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

30 minutes

I actually heard and matched the tones on a Glossika sentence today. Tada. 往哪个方向。

Saturday, Oct 15

Raymond Moy
20 minutes

《现代汉语语音教程》的联系

Saturday, Oct 15

ruryk
20 minutes

Duolingo speaking exercises

Saturday, Oct 15

Katriena
30 minutes

Saturday, Oct 15

Hamptot71
50 minutes

For most of the sentences I'm doing in Glossika, I know what the tones of the base characters, but am not always sure about tone sandhi, and when a character gets pronounced as a neutral tone. When...

Friday, Oct 14

Raymond Moy
30 minutes

More pronunciation questions on Glossika. 我喜欢旅行。wo xihuan lvxing. 33532, but I distinctly hear 33132. Glossika says that 欢 is supposed to be neutral, but I hear it with a first tone. 走路就可以。34433. ...

Friday, Oct 14

Raymond Moy
45 minutes

联系《现代汉语语音教程》的内容

Thursday, Oct 13

ruryk
40 minutes

Began my practice of the 3rd tone with some of these drills: https://youtu.be/xw6YDLlWBMY?list=PLFkP3w7MB-Po_lz-5tp3kiWJadiTVNTnV. Wasn't happy with how these videos demonstrate the 3rd tone as a f...

Thursday, Oct 13

Lawrence Rogers
20 minutes

Practise in the car on the way to work and back home.

Thursday, Oct 13

Kevin S
10 minutes

Todays log: I didn't have much time today to devote to fixing my third tone. While walking to the doctor's I practiced mimicking the recordings of the 3rd tone words I made my housemates make for m...

Wednesday, Oct 12

Lawrence Rogers
45 minutes

Doing shadowing on Glossika. I came across the following problems. 付现金 fu xian jin Glossika says the tones are 441, but I heard 412. 查煤气 cha mei qi 224, I heard 134. 贵不贵 gui bu gui 424, why isn't b...

Wednesday, Oct 12

Raymond Moy
30 minutes

Wednesday, Oct 12

Hamptot71
30 minutes

50 repetitions on Glossika.

Wednesday, Oct 12

Katriena
60 minutes

While trying to shadow Glossika sentences, I tried to identify the tones being used and am having a real hard time distinguishing what I thought I heard and what Glossika's pin yin transcription sa...

Tuesday, Oct 11

Raymond Moy
90 minutes

Did the tone testing activity (with my native speaking housemate) outlined on the hacking chinese page. We specifically tested starting tones 2, 3, and 4. We identified that not only is my spoken t...

Tuesday, Oct 11

Lawrence Rogers
42 minutes

回音+錄音 - Podcast - 劉軒的How to人生學 E156 - 【當你準備好,貴人自然到】- 第2段 詞匯: 非常相符的題目,財經記者及傳記作家, 一個手把手的帶領,導師,慣性 痛點: '她是自身財經記者也是傳記作家' (繞口令嗎-_-)

Tuesday, Oct 11

阿雄
20 minutes

Practising tone pairs pronunciation driving to work and back.

Tuesday, Oct 11

Kevin S
5 minutes

Tuesday, Oct 11

Mii

Mii joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Oct 11

Mii
40 minutes

tone pair training

Tuesday, Oct 11

ruryk
60 minutes

Tuesday, Oct 11

Hamptot71

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Raymond Moy13.2494%
2.ruryk5.050%
3.Katriena3.4934%
4.Lawrence Rogers2.3423%
5.Hamptot712.020%
6.fay1.510%
7.阿雄0.959%
8.Kevin S0.668%
9.Mii0.080%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants31
Hours reported29.26
DurationOctober 10, 2022 to
October 31, 2022 (22 days)