Chinese speaking challenge, April 2024

Tutor lesson and reviewing anki

Chat with language partner, with a particular focus on pronouncing things correctly (she still found lots of things for me to work on - it never ends does it)

Language exchange and practicing Anki flashcards sentences (forgot to post for Friday)

Shadowing TeaTime Chinese podcast episode

Spoke over wechat to my parents in law and sister in law.

spoke with friends

friend visited 坐坐聊聊

work conversations

shadow yt video

voice to translation app

Another bunch of sentences in Chinese and me commenting on them.

Today I was kind busy, so I just did shadowing of one episode of a cdrama, I'm trying to sound more natural and speak faster, one teacher said that I speak too slowly.

Spoke with friends

Pronunciation practice (and associated look-ups) with a particular focus on 略 and the ǜe sound.

same thing. I have random sentences come up on my ANKI, I say them, repeat them and dream up scenarios on how they are used, who says them and then role play how it all works. Constantly speaking.

I talked with a student for about 1 hour, study a chinese music, repeating phrases out loud, making my own sentences with the vocabulary that I'm studying. I studied around 4 hours today, but not ...

Shadowing YouTube. Big fan of 说说Chinese and Comprehensible Chinese. Also practicing sentences in Anki.

Long discussion with my wife about random sentences and the Red Sox.

I read some texts out loud, I listened and repeated Youtube`s videos and I tried to make phrases with the new vocabulary. I think my tones are getting better, the shadowing part it`s working.

Taxi drivers and friends

Sentence Mining practice using Anki focussing on tones

audio tape from book

Mimicking native audio, recording myself and re-recording until as close to correct as I can differentiate.

Audio journal and Mango Languages

Multi-Tasking, speaking Chinese while huffing and puffing at Planet Fitness. Other lunks next to me were confused.