Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2023

This is a challenge where your goal is to improve your Chinese pronunciation. Please read the linked article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

15 minutes

Chinese Pronunciation Wiki (level B1): Tough sounds -ü-u (phrases); -un (phrases).

Sunday, Oct 15

LaurenF
140 minutes

ArchChinese.com vocab practice/7 minute Chinese x 7/200 Daily Chinese phrases

Sunday, Oct 15

The_Real_Cydna
45 minutes

Tone pairs. Chinese conversations.

Sunday, Oct 15

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

4-3, 4-4, 4-5 tone practice

Saturday, Oct 14

Nicki

reese_learns joined the challenge!

Saturday, Oct 14

reese_learns
60 minutes

Quizlet, audiobook, then on the way to football game my 11 year old helped me with a reading from school. About a Shanghai international middle school story.

Saturday, Oct 14

Cliff Larsen

Huey joined the challenge!

Friday, Oct 13

Huey
15 minutes

Chinese Pronunciation Wiki (level B1): Tough sounds x-sh-, q-ch-, j-zh- (phrases); tough sounds r- (phrases); tough sounds -e (phrases); tough sounds -ou-uo (phrases).

Friday, Oct 13

LaurenF
66 minutes

While washing dishes I was repeating tone pairs. My wife said that was dumb so she wants me to memorize stuff. Ok honey!

Friday, Oct 13

Cliff Larsen

忠恩/Jonathan joined the challenge!

Thursday, Oct 12

忠恩/Jonathan
25 minutes

Thursday, Oct 12

Timea
20 minutes

Sinosplice tone pair drills.

Thursday, Oct 12

LaurenF
40 minutes

3-1 and 4-1 tone practice

Thursday, Oct 12

Nicki
60 minutes

reviewing the tips for initials pronunciation

Thursday, Oct 12

Adiel
60 minutes

Hacking Chinese course (pair tones & initials) practice

Thursday, Oct 12

Adiel
51 minutes

More tone pairs. More quizlet. More YouTube tone pairs.

Thursday, Oct 12

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Slow & Clear Chinese - Old Man; Happy Chinese Ep. 2 - An Image Issue

Wednesday, Oct 11

The_Real_Cydna
30 minutes

1-4 & 2-4 tone practice

Wednesday, Oct 11

Nicki
25 minutes

2nd tone combinations -- Yoyo Chinese.

Wednesday, Oct 11

LaurenF

Nara joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Oct 11

Nara
30 minutes

Practising with a couple of YouTube pronunciation videos: Mandarin Blueprint and Grace Mandarin Chinese

Wednesday, Oct 11

Nick Dee
138 minutes

real life Chinese-5 minutes; Chinese 100-7 min; Learn Chinese Thru Stories-2 min Slow & Clear Chinese-old man-6 min. 7 Minute Chinese 103 - 28 min C3 tutoring - 90 min

Wednesday, Oct 11

The_Real_Cydna
60 minutes

Hacking chinesee pronunciation course

Wednesday, Oct 11

Adiel
60 minutes

audiobook, quizlet tone pairs, YouTube videos

Wednesday, Oct 11

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

Tone pairs - 1st tone combinations, Yoyo Chinese.

Tuesday, Oct 10

LaurenF

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen16.61103%
2.The_Real_Cydna13.95199%
3.Adiel13.9139%
4.Renai3.5835%
5.LaurenF3.0861%
6.Nicki2.0741%
7.忠恩/Jonathan1.4235%
8.Nick Dee1.010%
9.Timea0.9211%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants20
Hours reported56.53
DurationOctober 10, 2023 to
October 31, 2023 (22 days)