Chinese speaking challenge, April 2023

LingoDeer Story-Speaking and audio journal

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

The Chairman's Bao: Shadowed 2x sample lessons.

LaurenF joined the challenge!

Reading new articles out loud to myself

Helping a constituent with multiple issues she was facing (checking on her food stamp status, free phone service, finding a plane ticket)

Conversation hour with my tutor, talking about my weekend

1 to 1 weekly 绕口令 practice with a drama teacher Chinese friend. We revised 八百标兵, 一平盆面 etc. She starts with breathing exercises and focuses on clarity when it comes to pronouncing diphthongs (墙，标).

Discussion with a language partner correcting my writing sum-up of a Chinese comics.

Practising 绕口令 for next day's course.

Conversation with language partner. Focusing on speaking slowly and getting tones right.

Conversation lesson with tutor.

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Huey joined the challenge!

I went on Hello Talk for 10 minutes and sent voice messages to people in Cantonese and Mandarin. I also read out a dialogue in Cantonese and sent a voice message to my Chinese teacher speaking Cant...

LingoDeer Story-Speaking and Mandarin Click shadowing

Renai joined the challenge!

Weekly Chinese/English language exchange. We do 3 rounds of 15 min English then 15 minutes of Mandarin. I only listened in the 3rd round so I recorded 30.

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

Audio log

Conversation lesson on italki

I used Du Chinese and read out loud to practice pronunciation in Mandarin. After I went on hello talk and sent voice messages to people in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

I learned by heart a dialogue from ChineseClass101, recorded it and uploaded it for my teacher to correct. Took longer than I expected because there were a lot of restaurant dishes in the dialogue ...

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

Lingodeer Story-Speaking and Cantone exercises.