Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023
Focus on improving your speaking ability, including fluency, pronunciation and much more. See the challenge article for more information and inspiration!
Recent activities
Speaking sentences to an online speech detector and correcting mistakes. Was pretty happy that most things were correct first time, and fixed a few mistakes.
Dae
More chatting with the family. Brought us all together. Helped my daughter with her homework and finally some pronunciation work. What a great month. Thank you HackingChinese!
Cliff Larsen
Daniel S
Multiple conversations throughout the day with taxi drivers, salespeople and partner. Took à morning walk before that, shadowing some teatimechinese podcast,
Tikaf Viper
Victoria
Ame玫瑰
Audio shadowing on flashcards and recorded two short (approx 1-2 minute) things for a weekly speaking practice.
Dae
Conversation lesson with tutor. Did an absolutely fantastic job of expressing myself for my current level. Very happy with this progress.
Dae
15 minutes talking Mandarin to an AI. 15 minutes speaking in Cantonese to my boyfriend explaining in Cantonese how bad my Cantonese is.
方子妮
reese_learns
Not much time for speaking. Actually had a house full of Chinese friends but alas they all want to speak English .....
Cliff Larsen
Ame玫瑰
15 minutes: shadowing TeatimeChinese podcast. 20 minutes: shadowing DuChinese articles 60 minutes: an afternoon with my Chinese friends
Tikaf Viper
Dae
Nick Dee
Personal journal. Reading article to my kids. Long talk to my wife on a long car ride. I'm relating a story from Amy Tan's book KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE. Great book.
Cliff Larsen
Conversations with taxi driver, colleagues, language partner and a bit of diction practice and shadowing.
Tikaf Viper
Speaking with language partner. I'm doing ok with expressing myself, a lot worse with listening to her reply.
Dae
Ame玫瑰
Dae
10 minutes of preparing for a Cantonese class on routines and a 60 minute Cantonese speaking class.
方子妮
Personal journal, articles, conversation then a wechat chat with sister in law.
Cliff Larsen
45 minutes: shadowing Teatime Chinese podcast during 2 bike ride commuting. 15 minutes: conversation during lunch with new Chinese colleague. 10 minutes with the taxi driver 10 minutes of tongu...
Tikaf Viper
LaurenF
Ame玫瑰
Leaderboard
| Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
| 1. |  | Cliff Larsen | 20.67 | |
| 2. |  | Tikaf Viper | 18.08 | |
| 3. |  | 方子妮 | 10.18 | |
| 4. |  | Dae | 7.66 | |
| 5. |  | Marshall Lee Weimer | 7.58 | |
| 6. |  | Daniel S | 6.5 | |
| 7. |  | 匡瑞旻 | 6.0 | |
| 8. |  | Victoria | 5.85 | |
| 9. |  | reese_learns | 4.31 | |
| 10. |  | Lani | 4.17 | |
| 11. |  | LaurenF | 3.83 | |
| 12. |  | Nick Dee | 3.67 | |
| 13. |  | Ame玫瑰 | 3.17 | |
| 14. |  | Huey | 0.42 | |
| 15. |  | Miriam | 0.25 | |
| Link | https://www.hackingchinese.... |
| Participants | 33 |
|---|---|
| Hours reported | 102.34 |
| Duration | April 10, 2023 to April 30, 2023 (21 days) |