Participation
in Chinese listening challenge, May 2023



75 minutes
1.25h

30 mins on Peppa Pig cartoons, 45 mins on TV series.
Also this week I spent about 10 hours trying out Glossika. Beforehand, when listening to normal speed speech (e.g. TV), I was mainly catching words, and rarely recognising phrases and sentences. I wondered if sentence training with Glossika would help. It did. Perhaps for the next listening or speaking challenge, I will use Glossika again.

60 minutes
1.0h

10 mins Peppa Pig, 30 mins children's poems, 20 mins listening to Du Chinese story I read a few months ago.

30 minutes
0.5h

About 15 mins Peppa Pig, about 15 mins ChinesePod

20 minutes
0.33h

Peppa Pig, Just Friends (listened and read along)

45 minutes
0.75h

Childrens stories on Youtube & Peppa Pig

60 minutes
1.0h

20 mins Miss Panda children's stories (while reading along - some have English too), 20 mins 'Zhou Haisheng' (while reading along - no English or pinyin), 20 mins 'Haokan shi bu goude' (just listening, not reading). All are at a level that I can understand without difficulty - I have decided to focus on this kind of material for a week and see how it goes.

85 minutes
1.42h

10 mins watching Slow Chinese, 15 mins watching Very Hungry Caterpillar x 3, 60 mins TV

130 minutes
2.17h

10 mins Slow Chinese, 90 mins TV, 30 mins listening to a few things that I had found difficult during a listening challenge last year (haokan shi bu goude, some childrens stories on YouTube) and now feel effortless - some progress!

140 minutes
2.33h

20 mins Slow Chinese, 2 hours TV. I learnt a lot more from 20 mins of Slow Chinese (which is the right level for me) than from 2 hours of TV (where I can catch quite a few words but only the occasional sentence). Not quite sure about the value of watching TV at this stage - maybe just getting used to the sounds and speed - and picking up how words are used in everyday conversations.

135 minutes
2.25h

15 mins Slow Chinese, 30 mins Misadventures of Zhou Haisheng, 90-ish mins TV shows

165 minutes
2.75h

15 mins Slow Chinese, about 30 mins 'The Farewell', 120mins TV

135 minutes
2.25h

15 mins Peppa Pig, 2 hrs TV show

120 minutes
2.0h

30 mins watching Peppa Pig with English, pinyin, hanzi subtitles. 90 mins watching comedy/romance/drama series on Amazon with English subtitles - noting down all the words and sentences that I catch - not many yet but hopefully more by the end of the month...




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:100.0%
Score20.0
Rank7th
Hours reported20.0
Goal20h