Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023

Focus on improving your speaking ability, including fluency, pronunciation and much more. See the challenge article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

20 minutes

Chinese Skill roleplay and shadowing with LanguagePlayer.io

Thursday, Apr 27

reese_learns
77 minutes

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

Thursday, Apr 27

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

WordSwing dialogue: Buying a house: Which floor plan do you prefer?

Wednesday, Apr 26

LaurenF
45 minutes

Reading aloud news articles, Maayot daily story, and a grammar test

Wednesday, Apr 26

Marshall Lee Weimer
20 minutes

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.

Wednesday, Apr 26

方子妮
50 minutes

1) Various conversations. 2) shadowing a 20 minutes episode of Teatime Chinese

Wednesday, Apr 26

Tikaf Viper
75 minutes

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

Wednesday, Apr 26

Cliff Larsen
15 minutes

Talking with constituents today

Tuesday, Apr 25

Marshall Lee Weimer
60 minutes

Conversation practice with tutor

Tuesday, Apr 25

Marshall Lee Weimer
60 minutes

Language exchange group

Tuesday, Apr 25

Marshall Lee Weimer
25 minutes

WordSwing dialogue: I want to make a copy of the answers...

Tuesday, Apr 25

LaurenF
30 minutes

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.

Tuesday, Apr 25

方子妮
90 minutes

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. ...

Tuesday, Apr 25

方子妮
60 minutes

3x10 minutes diction and tongue twisters practice. About 15 minutes random conversation during the day. 15 minutes shadowing audio book

Tuesday, Apr 25

Tikaf Viper
20 minutes

Audio mimicking and shadowing of flashcards.

Tuesday, Apr 25

Dae
30 minutes

Conversation lesson with tutor

Tuesday, Apr 25

Dae
30 minutes

Shadowing YouTube videos on the Su Qing's great channel, Comprehensible Chinese

Tuesday, Apr 25

Nick Dee
53 minutes

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

Tuesday, Apr 25

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

WordSwing dialogue: Trouble at a restaurant: I'm sorry, we also don't have that here.

Monday, Apr 24

LaurenF
45 minutes

Conversation with various partners and taxi drivers.

Monday, Apr 24

Tikaf Viper
60 minutes

Monday, Apr 24

Lani
30 minutes

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.

Monday, Apr 24

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

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 my...

Monday, Apr 24

方子妮
60 minutes

Shadowing on young readers book 米小圈 + various conversations during the day

Monday, Apr 24

Tikaf Viper

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen20.67103%
2.Tikaf Viper18.08113%
3.方子妮10.18101%
4.Dae7.6676%
5.Marshall Lee Weimer7.5894%
6.Daniel S6.565%
7.匡瑞旻6.0120%
8.Victoria 5.85117%
9.reese_learns4.31107%
10.Lani4.1759%
11.LaurenF3.8376%
12.Nick Dee3.6761%
13.Ame玫瑰3.17105%
14.Huey0.424%
15.Miriam0.258%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants33
Hours reported102.34
DurationApril 10, 2023 to
April 30, 2023 (21 days)