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!

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

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.

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

Found a Mandarin companion book and read the whole thing cover to cover.

4.25 Personal audio journal. Discussion over we chat with mother in law. Pronunciation practice on pleco with my phone's mic capabilities.

Audio journal, reciting song and reading an article outloud. Looking ahead to May, it's listening again! COOL!

Couple random talking times and I kind of blew up at my family for making fun of my bad Chinese. Now I have to learn how to apologize in Chinese.

More ichinese reader for me. I also downloaded italki but gosh it has changed from a couple of years ago. I'm bombarded by Chinese tutors. If I didn't know any better, it's just a tutor finding app.

Talked with the kids and wechatted a friend.

A couple chairman Bao stories. Then a long ride home talking to my wife about THE GOOD EARTH and the interesting parts of the story.

Helped our 10y/o with homework on iChinese Reader.

Reading Chairman's Bao Chinese articles outloud with my 10y/o and 6y/o criticizing my pronunciation. Long conversation on the way to our eldest's Ultimate Frisbee game. Long we chat chat with my parents in law in Shanghai.

Talked with parents in law about my wife's birth.... back in those days.... also family conversations in the car. Reading articles outloud.

While family discussions about which classmates they would marry. Ha ha ha. Afternoon discussion with wife about being anxious and racial discrimination.

Personal journal audio. Dinner discussion about soda, embarrassing moments when I was young and when Mao died.

Audio journal, car ride conversation with wife, 4 way dinner discussion (me, my wife and 2 kids) about superfans, penguin poo and stick bugs.

More audio journal and long chat with my sister- in-law over wechat.

Learned a new Tang Poem. Recited it about a hundred times. Also called my parents in law. They might be getting sick of me.....

More audio journal, reading outloud. Dictation of audio on the road. Long discussion with my parents in law in Shanghai.

Personal audio journal. Reading aloud. Called my wife. Wechat with my parents in law.