Participation
in Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023



30 minutes
0.5h

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

70 minutes
1.17h

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

20 minutes
0.33h

Sending in the homework for my Cantonese class. I had to speak on a variety of different topics and send in the recording to get marked.

30 minutes
0.5h

I did my Cantonese homework for my Cantonese class. I recorded myself answering questions after listening to a text about school. Then I practiced reading and pronouncing a dialogue and recorded myself doing it.

Date is wrong this was studying for the Friday April 21st class.

90 minutes
1.5h

Cantonese speaking class+ preparation for the class. It was about classroom phrases. But I went over lots of grammar. Also practicing turning writing standard Cantonese into casual oral Cantonese. This is something I need to work on being comfortable switching between these two systems.

30 minutes
0.5h

Speaking Cantonese with boyfriend. He told me I don’t spend enough time practicing speaking so I refused to speak in English for a while and just used my broken Cantonese to communicate with him.

70 minutes
1.17h

Another Cantonese class with my teacher. This time we did classroom phrases. I did about 10 minutes of studying before class to prepare for this.

60 minutes
1.0h

Did a Cantonese class with my Cantonese teacher. Everything was spoken and she tested me on the last 4 units.

10 minutes
0.17h

Partner quizzed me verbally on Cantonese terms to prepare for Cantonese class.

25 minutes
0.42h

Studying my Cantonese cooking class slides for the test tonight. Reading dialogues, answering questions, practicing vocabulary, grammar all out loud.

60 minutes
1.0h

Today I started cramming/studying for my Cantonese speaking test tomorrow. I went through my slides practicing using the vocab and grammar in sentences. I also went through dialogues and practiced answers questions on the topics. The topics were animals and outside activities.

60 minutes
1.0h

Practicing pronunciation by doing Karaoke in Mandarin and Cantonese for 30 minutes. Spent another 30 minutes taking with my partner in Cantonese.

30 minutes
0.5h

I went on Hello Talk for 10 minutes and sent voice messages to people in Cantonese and Mandarin. I also read out a dialogue in Cantonese and sent a voice message to my Chinese teacher speaking Cantonese.

25 minutes
0.42h

I used Du Chinese and read out loud to practice pronunciation in Mandarin. After I went on hello talk and sent voice messages to people in both Mandarin and Cantonese.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:101.8%
Score10.18
Rank3rd
Hours reported10.18
Goal10h