Participation
in Chinese listening challenge, September 2023
51 minutes 0.85h
Added a little extra and forgot to post it. Great month!
60 minutes 1.0h
Trying to stop at 100 hours exactly. VOA Chinese and Speak Chinese Naturally podcast. 自然而然说中文。
120 minutes 2.0h
Sorry videos with Annie. Great YouTube videos where she describes pictures very painstakingly.
380 minutes 6.33h
Many YouTube videos of all Chinese. Podcasts and many things.
410 minutes 6.83h
Audiobooks, videos, prepping for pronunciation next month already! Listened to the same VOA about 5 times. Some normal speed. Some slower.
410 minutes 6.83h
So many podcasts, audiobooks, videos, music.
350 minutes 5.83h
9.25.2023
Tons of Himalaya podcasts.
Woah, you and Olle are head to head!
Алёша350 minutes 5.83h
Tons of audiobooks, church, chess videos at night.
435 minutes 7.25h
So much listening today. Like my full time job. Learned a ton too!
326 minutes 5.43h
Dashboard Chinese is a great podcast. Long and good. Also故事fm.
330 minutes 5.5h
Anyone tried SYS Mandarin. On YouTube? Good stuff.
No, never heard of it, and I try to keep track of these things! The number of good channels on YouTube has exploded in recent years. I will definitely add this to my list of things to check more carefully when updating the best free listening article. Also, when it comes to the challenge, I'm tempted to try to get to 100 hours! I don't actually count conversations or interactions with real people in my hours, but I think I can get there without doing that. Audiobooks are pretty good for clocking large numbers of hours.
Olle Linge260 minutes 4.33h
Videos, audibles, music. So much!
270 minutes 4.5h
Tons of good stuff. Found SYS Mandarin on YouTube. Good stuff.
270 minutes 4.5h
Tons of audiobooks and then himalaya
150 minutes 2.5h
Started "little prince" on Chinese from our leader's suggestion about audio books online.
300 minutes 5.0h
So many things and so many places and so many things to listen to. 我的天呀！
150 minutes 2.5h
Watched Peter Rabbit on Little Fox and listened to some songs with the kids.
300 minutes 5.0h
I found a new audiobook about a trip across the pacific ocean in Chinese.
It would be cool to compile a list of audiobook resources. The problem is that most of them are probably illegal and usually don't stay for long. I've found that searching YouTube, Bilibili and other services is quite useful, and then download only the audio (that's how I'm listening now, for example).
Olle Linge360 minutes 6.0h
Today the water main in my district flooded and school was canceled. I didn't know. So I got tons of work done and listened to tons of Chinese!
There's opportunity in every disaster! :) I got stuck on a train yesterday, which increased my listening time quite a bit!
Olle Linge300 minutes 5.0h
I found COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and WAR IN PEACE in Chinese on Himalaya and heard tons of music....黄明志！
120 minutes 2.0h
Himalaya all day long.
300 minutes 5.0h
This looks crazy but it's a Sunday. I'm doing a lot of passive listening today. To make up for the days I can't get listening done....
| Challenge time progress: | |
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| Goal progress: |
| Score | 100.01 |
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| Rank | 2nd |
| Hours reported | 100.01 |
| Goal | 100h |
Agreed! I'll write something about it and post it on Hacking Chinese shortly. Let's see if we can convince more people to go for more ambitious goals in the next listening challenge!