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

10 minutes

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.

Monday, May 01

Dae
61 minutes

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!

Monday, May 01

Cliff Larsen
60 minutes

italki class with Osmond

Sunday, Apr 30

Daniel S
90 minutes

Multiple conversations throughout the day with taxi drivers, salespeople and partner. Took à morning walk before that, shadowing some teatimechinese podcast,

Sunday, Apr 30

Tikaf Viper
310 minutes

I forgot to update oops

Sunday, Apr 30

Victoria
30 minutes

Sunday, Apr 30

Ame玫瑰
15 minutes

Audio shadowing on flashcards and recorded two short (approx 1-2 minute) things for a weekly speaking practice.

Sunday, Apr 30

Dae
35 minutes

Conversation lesson with tutor. Did an absolutely fantastic job of expressing myself for my current level. Very happy with this progress.

Sunday, Apr 30

Dae
30 minutes

15 minutes talking Mandarin to an AI. 15 minutes speaking in Cantonese to my boyfriend explaining in Cantonese how bad my Cantonese is.

Sunday, Apr 30

方子妮
13 minutes

Speechling

Sunday, Apr 30

reese_learns
30 minutes

Not much time for speaking. Actually had a house full of Chinese friends but alas they all want to speak English .....

Sunday, Apr 30

Cliff Larsen
10 minutes

Saturday, Apr 29

Ame玫瑰
95 minutes

15 minutes: shadowing TeatimeChinese podcast. 20 minutes: shadowing DuChinese articles 60 minutes: an afternoon with my Chinese friends

Saturday, Apr 29

Tikaf Viper
10 minutes

Shadowing native audio on flashcards.

Saturday, Apr 29

Dae
30 minutes

Shadowing videos on Mandarin Corner

Saturday, Apr 29

Nick Dee
61 minutes

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.

Saturday, Apr 29

Cliff Larsen
45 minutes

Conversations with taxi driver, colleagues, language partner and a bit of diction practice and shadowing.

Friday, Apr 28

Tikaf Viper
30 minutes

Speaking with language partner. I'm doing ok with expressing myself, a lot worse with listening to her reply.

Friday, Apr 28

Dae
30 minutes

Friday, Apr 28

Ame玫瑰
30 minutes

shadowing on audio flashcards

Friday, Apr 28

Dae
70 minutes

10 minutes of preparing for a Cantonese class on routines and a 60 minute Cantonese speaking class.

Friday, Apr 28

方子妮
68 minutes

Personal journal, articles, conversation then a wechat chat with sister in law.

Friday, Apr 28

Cliff Larsen
80 minutes

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...

Thursday, Apr 27

Tikaf Viper
20 minutes

WordSwing dialogue: Do you believe in aliens?

Thursday, Apr 27

LaurenF
15 minutes

Thursday, Apr 27

Ame玫瑰

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen20.67103%
2.Tikaf Viper18.08113%
3.方子妮10.18101%
4.Dae7.6676%
5.Marshall Lee Weimer7.5894%
6.Daniel S6.565%
7.匡瑞旻6.0120%
8.Victoria 5.85117%
9.reese_learns4.31107%
10.Lani4.1759%
11.LaurenF3.8376%
12.Nick Dee3.6761%
13.Ame玫瑰3.17105%
14.Huey0.424%
15.Miriam0.258%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants33
Hours reported102.34
DurationApril 10, 2023 to
April 30, 2023 (21 days)