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: | |
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Goal progress: |
Score | 7.66 |
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Rank | 4th |
Hours reported | 7.66 |
Goal | 10h |