Participation
in Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023
90 minutes 1.5h
Multiple conversations throughout the day with taxi drivers, salespeople and partner. Took à morning walk before that, shadowing some teatimechinese podcast,
95 minutes 1.58h
15 minutes: shadowing TeatimeChinese podcast.
20 minutes: shadowing DuChinese articles
60 minutes: an afternoon with my Chinese friends
45 minutes 0.75h
Conversations with taxi driver, colleagues, language partner and a bit of diction practice and shadowing.
80 minutes 1.33h
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 tongue twister / diction training
50 minutes 0.83h
1) Various conversations.
2) shadowing a 20 minutes episode of Teatime Chinese
60 minutes 1.0h
3x10 minutes diction and tongue twisters practice.
About 15 minutes random conversation during the day.
15 minutes shadowing audio book
45 minutes 0.75h
Conversation with various partners and taxi drivers.
60 minutes 1.0h
Shadowing on young readers book 米小圈 + various conversations during the day
10 minutes 0.17h
绕口令 practice
30 minutes 0.5h
Snippets of conversation. Some shadowing on subtitles of a new tv series on iQiyi: 回响
45 minutes 0.75h
Tone pair practice + shadowing on kid's literature (米小圈).
30 minutes 0.5h
Conversations with language partners.
30 minutes 0.5h
Daily conversation bouts with partner.
30 minutes 0.5h
Snippets of conversation here and there.
Revising the fiendishly difficult tongue twister 粉红墙上画凤凰. This one still resists me, but my Chinese acquaintances confirm it’s not easy for them either.
45 minutes 0.75h
1- Swimming session + 绕口令 rehearsing (粉红凤凰)。
2- Fixing a known problem: tone pairs --> sequence 4-2 一平
60 minutes 1.0h
Day on the bike visiting 厦门. Multiple conversations with different people at breakfast, bicycle renting shop, and my cycling partner.
15 minutes 0.25h
Morning practice of breathing and phonetics from my Chinese drama teacher.
90 minutes 1.5h
Spent a whole afternoon and early evening working with my language partner in a cafe. We had fun computing what we had talked about and for how long in the end.
60 minutes 1.0h
Speaking with partner and daily practice of 绕口令
30 minutes 0.5h
Speaking session with language partner
30 minutes 0.5h
1 to 1 weekly 绕口令 practice with a drama teacher Chinese friend. We revised 八百标兵, 一平盆面 etc.
She starts with breathing exercises and focuses on clarity when it comes to pronouncing diphthongs (墙,标).
15 minutes 0.25h
Discussion with a language partner correcting my writing sum-up of a Chinese comics.
10 minutes 0.17h
Practising 绕口令 for next day's course.
30 minutes 0.5h
Conversation with language partner. Focusing on speaking slowly and getting tones right.
Challenge time progress: | |
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Goal progress: |
Score | 18.08 |
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Rank | 2nd |
Hours reported | 18.08 |
Goal | 16h |