Chinese speaking challenge, April 2024

Great month. Great time. Thanks Olle!

Still on holidays, and still with Chinese friends.

Language exchange

Did shadowing of podcasts over the last three days (30 mins each day)

So much. If you saw me you would think I was talking to myself!

I talked with a friend and with other students, I keep shadowing youtube videos, more vlogs than educational ones, so I can sound more natural. I really liked this challenge, was my first one and f...

Same as the day before.

not much today. Bummer.

Today I was a bit tired so I just did some shadowing of youtube videos, trying to speak faster.

Listened to and repeated many segments of Seven-minute Chinese. This was on my commute so there were no visuals, only spoken Zhongwen.

Tutor lesson

conversation with language partner from law class; study two-step method for using neumonics to memorize Chinese characters;karaoke to OSTs - Journey to Love, Jay Chou songs,

On a trip with Chinese friends. I guess 2 hours comes as close as possible to the truth.

ate and talked with peiple

Talked with my sister in law on wechat in Korea in Chinese. Long story.

Seven-minute Chinese - this was on my commute so I couldn't see characters, it was all by hearing.;reviewed Cheng & Tsui dialogs 6

I talked with a friend, I stil have some problem remembering some words, but its getting easier to speak without thinking too much.

The wife came back :)

on the button. Wow. Learned tons and spoke tons! Recorded it all!

Today I talked with many people and for the very first time someone complimented my chinese, I saw so many memes about just speaking 你好 and chinese people would say your chinese is so good, but tha...

Day off today so had lots of time for speaking practice. Had 3 language exchange conversations. Watched part of a movie and rewatched scenes multiple times mirroring sentences. Also did some more t...

patient convos

voice input to translation app

shadow yt video

exchanging some phrases and small chats with other teachers