Chinese listening challenge, January 2024

listen in du chinese - different materials

Spent the day alternating between RTI and RFI (French Radio in Chinese). I also listened again to Learn Mandarin Taiwanese podcast for election-related vocabulary, and listened to the free Journey ...

Active listening to Mandarin Click videos on Youtube (transcribing).

Maomi chinese Tea time chinese

Mostly passive listening to low intermediate Comprehensive Chinese podcasts by Bumpy Chinese. Find it hard to focus, both while doing other things, and when solely listening.

LB joined the challenge!

Podcasts: TeaTime Chinese, MaoMi Chinese, and Learn Mandarin in Mandarin with Huimin

Day 3: 大叔中文, various episodes 世界之眼 up to 03:30 (120 min) Some live content about Taiwan's elections

Last 4 episodes of Medical Examiner: Dr. Qin (on Viki). Wish I could say I picked up a lot of medical terminology, but it was enough for me to follow basic conversations...lol.

Genesis chapters 7-15 (repeat) and 16 (new)

Immersive Chinese and Comprehensible Chinese

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...

Chinese pod exotic animals day 3 and Friday night entertainment. Have you seen 东北雨姐？how about 手工耿？hilarious!

listen to Chinese mini dialogues, listened to a movie in the background and watched an episode of a cdrama. I still find it much easier to read the subtitles, and then hear out the words. But it is...

Watched an episode of 《盲心千金》。I had both Chinese and English subtitles on, but tried to ignore both at much as possible. It’s a simple enough plot so far that I only needed to peak a couple times. ...

listening to audiobook

I listened to the radio a bit, and Learn Taiwanese Mandarin podcast about the elections

I listened to the radio a bit, and Learn Taiwanese Mandarin podcast about the elections

One episode of 長安少年行 - 45 minutes. Couple random bilibili videos in chinese ~30 minutes. Background listening to podcasts ~2 hours.

Conversation + Understanding (3) Videos

9 Must Learn Chinese Idioms｜大叔中文通01-九个 必学中文成語 + Dashu q&a5 on YT, hello Chinese/ yt; 声动早咖啡 on Spotify

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