Chinese speaking challenge, April 2024

30 min Amazing Talker lesson, plus 30 min preparation for lesson

I'm focusing in the pronunciation, repeting sentences, some shadowing videos and I had a conversation with my teacher today.

Seven-minute Chinese 201; work on karoake of Jay Chou songs & OST Journey to Love.

Learning new vocabulary, speaking out loud focusing in get the tones right.

Reading some du chinese aloud focussing on my tones and imitating the recording.

Same same. I paid attention to real time talking, not just “maybe about X minutes”. 30 minutes is a very long time indeed.

While doing my car inspection and check up I was recording and talking to myself with my ANKI phrases! AWESOME!

Daily conversation with taxi and language partner

Language exchange

audio book repeat

talking with patients: explaining surgery arrangements, giving path test instructions etc

shadowing yt video

Ooops. Didn't do a good job today! Tomorrow back on track!

While studying new vocabulary, I read the example sentences aloud and was speaking the sentences I made with the new vocabulary, focusing in the pronounciation.

repeated phrases from an audio book

Oscar Schott joined the challenge!

Long call and discussion on wechat with mother and father in law.

One to one with Preply tutor. Didn't get to do as much speaking as I had hoped! Also read a Duchinese article out loud.

7 minute Chinese, multiple lessons; conversation with language partner. This is a several-day total since I've been too busy to post. 我很忙！

using voice input for translation app

Spoke with some friends

I had some Chinese friends at home today, thus some speaking practice.

貝琪 joined the challenge!

Chris Kasper joined the challenge!

Mango Languagea speech exercises again, focused on getting the cadence to match the voice samples.