Participation
in Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023



10 minutes
0.17h

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.

15 minutes
0.25h

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

35 minutes
0.58h

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

10 minutes
0.17h

Shadowing native audio on flashcards.

30 minutes
0.5h

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

30 minutes
0.5h

shadowing on audio flashcards

20 minutes
0.33h

Audio mimicking and shadowing of flashcards.

30 minutes
0.5h

Conversation lesson with tutor

20 minutes
0.33h

Mimicking native audio on flashcards.

30 minutes
0.5h

Conversation lesson with tutor.

20 minutes
0.33h

Conversation with language partner. She corrected me on a few sentences or more natural ways to say things.

30 minutes
0.5h

Mimicking native audio on flashcards.

30 minutes
0.5h

Conversation lesson with tutor.

30 minutes
0.5h

mimicking native audio on flashcards

30 minutes
0.5h

Mimicking native audio sentences on flashcards. Skipped this for a few days, so I have a backlog of reviews, got about half of them done today.

30 minutes
0.5h

Conversation lesson with tutor. Used a lot of newer vocabulary in conversation which was exciting!

30 minutes
0.5h

Conversation lesson with tutor.

30 minutes
0.5h

Mimicking of native audio on sentence flashcards. One speaker is particularly fast and she was extremely challenging to imitate. Particular sounds (like the 'a' sound in 看) proved to be a challenge that I spent a while trying to improve. Longer sentences or those with a lot of tone changes were also quite hard.
One thing I've noticed is that my speech is more "breathy" when I'm not concentrating on it, and I'm hoping to build a better habit of speaking clearly through this challenge.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:76.6%
Score7.66
Rank4th
Hours reported7.66
Goal10h