Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023

Day on the bike visiting 厦门. Multiple conversations with different people at breakfast, bicycle renting shop, and my cycling partner.

Shadowing and tutoring lesson

Memorised and recording dialogues from Chineseclass101.com (Lower Beginner level). Sent audio files to teacher for comments on pronunciation

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

WordSwing Dialogue: What do you plan to do when you graduate?

Morning practice of breathing and phonetics from my Chinese drama teacher.

Spent a whole afternoon and early evening working with my language partner in a cafe. We had fun computing what we had talked about and for how long in the end.

Pinyin chart practice with difficult sounds and 1-on-1 tutoring

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

italki class with Osmond.

Speaking with partner and daily practice of 绕口令

I listened to the texts, then read part or all of the text out loud: The Trouble with Dogs, No Answer is Also an Answer, Sweet Potato Pedlars, Where's my Bike? These are on Clavis Sinica: Chinese V...

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.

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

Betterfly joined the challenge!

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

Early intermediate class.

Went to speak with a native chinese speaker for two hours and I have had Chinese class twice this week

The Chairman's Bao sample lessons x4, shadowing.

Speaking session with language partner

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