Participation
in Chinese listening challenge, January 2024



130 minutes
2.17h

Dashu Mandarin "Can You Really Learn Chinese Better in China?"; "Is China Really Safe for Foreigners?" Chinese Study Assistant "HSK Dialogue Listening & Speaking"

440 minutes
7.33h

Maomi Chinese "1 hour of Chinese Listening"; Dashu Chinese "6 Common Chinese Mistakes"; ChineseClass101.com "Learn 1,000 Words". Chinese Study Assistant "Practice Listening & Speaking"; Janus Academy "Dialogues Part 1"; Smart Chinese "HSK Dialogues"; Everyday Chinese "100 Daily Chinese Conversations." Two episodes of "Nirvana in Fire"

180 minutes
3.0h

ChineseClass 101.com "Learn Chinese 2000 Words"; 2 episodes "Nirvana in Fire"

30 minutes
0.5h

Mandarin Click "Wife's birthday", "No Breakfast", "Eats too Much", "Seeing a Friend", "John Loves Sports";

240 minutes
4.0h

Dashu Mandarin "Why you can't understand native Chinese speakers", “Love Stories in Chinese Universities" ; Mandarin Corner "150 Vocab & Sentences"; two episodes "Nirvana in Fire".

290 minutes
4.83h

Dashu Mandarin "Conversations in a Chinese Restaurant"; Mandarin Corner "HSK2 Complete 150 Vocabulary Words & Sentences"; SyS Mandarin "321 Learn Chinese Through Stories"; MaoMi Chinese "1 Hour of Mandarin Chinese"; Chinative "Flash Cards, Common Verbs". 2 Episodes "Nirvana in Fire".

295 minutes
4.92h

Dashu Mandarin "How to Start a Conversation in Mandarin", "How to Teach Chinese in a Creative Way", "How to Improve your Chinese Speaking Ability"; Mandarin Corner "Complete 150 Vocab Words & Sentence Examples"; Everyday Chinese "60 Chinese Sentences & Examples"; Hu Ge Songs "Loyal Blood Runs Forever" & "When the Winds Blows"; 2 episodes of "Nirvana in Fire"; Taochang House Sweeping "Close to Idols" with Liu ShiShi & Liu Yuning.

315 minutes
5.25h

Dragon TV - "Tianya" sung by Ren Xianqi & Liu Yuning; Dashu Mandarin "6 Chinese Songs to Learn"; Dimash & Tan WeiWei sing "Thousands of Miles, a Common Dream"; Dashu Chinese “How to Start a Conversation in Chinese"; Mandarin Corner finished "HSK 3", "HSK3 Adverbs", "HSK3 Vocabulary", "HSK3 Adjectives 1-39", "HSK 2 - Complete 150 Vocabulary Words"; Dashu Mandarin "How to Teach Chinese in a Creative Way"; Two episodes of "Nirvana in Fire."

265 minutes
4.42h

YT Mandarin Corner "Complete HSK3 300 Words & Sentence Examples" This is a very fine practice, speaker speaks very clearly & sentence examples are very helpful. "Modern Brothers Reunite" Liu Yuning Carnation Music Festival 3.0, 12/17/23. "Hello Saturday" Mango TV 1/1/22; 4 episodes of "Nirvana in Fire". Looking up words I recognized but didn't know. My favorite find today: 没想到。Méi xiǎngdào - "didn't expect".

150 minutes
2.5h

Fluent U episodes; UC Davis "Visiting Friends"; ShuoShuo Chinese "Ordering Food"; Dashu Chinese "Chinese Internet Slang" no subs then again taking notes; Integrated Chinese Les. 10, Ep 1 & 2; YT
cúc phùng, "Learning Chinese for Americans".

335 minutes
5.58h

Dashu Mandarin: "This Chinese Girl Sold her House to Travel Around the World"; TWD Music Channel, "Top Chinese Music Playlist" Douyin, no subs; GM Lyric, 21 Jay Chou songs, only Hanzi subs; Younblood XII "Liu Yuning Playlist" with Hanzi, pinyin & English MaoMi Chinese "How to See a Doctor in China." Registering at the hospital is one to two yuan, $0.14 to $0.28 in USD! Quizlet vocab review Integrated Chinese, Les. 8, Dialogue 1 & 2/Les. 9, Dialog 1 & 2.

130 minutes
2.17h

Listened to Jay Chou music with subs in Hanzi only, no Pinyin or English. I tried to rely only on hearing the words, not reading the characters. I was able to hear certain words and recognize them from other listening activities I've done. I mistook (xiaoxin - to be careful) 小心 for (faxian - to discover) 发现。I don't know why - they don't even sound alike. My ears were playing tricks on me. Also listened to Liu Yuning songs (many C Drama songs).

123 minutes
2.05h

Mandarin Click "Slow Chinese Stories"; OST "A Journey to Love"; TaoLi Chinese "100 Chinese Phrases"; Nancy Chinese Languages "500 HSK 1 Chinese sentences practice"; Ariel KK Chinese "Most Common Chinese Conversation"; Dashu Mandarin "Must-Know Chinese Words About Love."

160 minutes
2.67h

Dashu Mandarin "How to Study Chinese in 2024"; Mandarin Click "Slow Chinese Stories"; Slow & Easy Chinese - "Xiao Chang's Story", "Mr. Wang's Daughter", "Mary's Life", "A Week in the Life"

225 minutes
3.75h

Dashu Chinese "How to Think in Chinese"; EKO Languages "230 Basic Chinese Phrases"; Listened to Ch. 1 "Just Friends?"; LingLing Mandarin - "Chinese Stories for Beginners HSK2/3 - New Year, New Friends" & "Taking a Day Off"; Dashu "9 Must-Know Chinese Idioms"; Listened to OST "A Journey to Love"; Chinese Stories "I miss my family"

60 minutes
1.0h

Listened to Jay Chou music with Hanzi/Yingwen subs. Chinese music is interesting because there are no tones on the words.

160 minutes
2.67h

Eko languages yt 230 basic phrases; Crazy Chinese (xiang, xiangyao & yao); Learn Chinese Basic phrases & patterns (YT); Voice Garden Chinese; interview w/Alen Fang (HunanTV). Listened to and translated "The Translated Tone Exposes You" on Maomi Chinese. Made notes on new vocab. Also, "Chasing Celebrity Tribe in China 追星族在中国". Also Ep #127 Maomi Chinese.

115 minutes
1.92h

I listened to Slow Chinese Stories HSK 2/3 in the car on the way home. Eko Languages "Learn Mandarin Chinese-230 basic phrases"; more "Slow Chinese Stories"; Watched Ep. 1 家有女儿 (Home with Kids) on YouTube. It's a Chinese sitcom & pretty funny. More Eko Languages "Learn Mandarin Chinese-230 basic phrases". Listened and wrote new vocab. 新生次。

220 minutes
3.67h

when in the car today, I listened to "Learn Chinese for Beginners" and 13 episodes of "Slow Chinese Stories" HSK 2/3. Also, 4 episodes of Maomi Chinese Podcases - "Stereotypes of different areas in China"; "No Midnight Snack, Go to Night School!"; "Your Christmas decorations come from this Chinese town" and "Have you worked hard enough?". These activities were actually on Friday, 1/12/23, but was recorded on Saturday, 1/13/23, due to different time zones, so my Saturday activities will be added here later.

35 minutes
0.58h

Maomi Chinese podcast - "Will Elder Care be the Future in Chinese Market?", Slow and Clear Chinese - "Drinking Tea" and Everyday Chinese - "The Real Story of Mulan".

20 minutes
0.33h

2 podcasts @ Maomi Chinese.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:1088.5%
Score65.31
Rank3rd
Hours reported65.31
Goal6h