Chinese speaking challenge, April 2024

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Today was the Chinese Bridge Competition, while I was watching the competition, I talked with teachers and students in chinese. Also learned a new chinese song.

Talking with some students in Chinese and just speaking out loud about my day.

helping woman at work to understand doctor’s instructions and the healthcare system

being confident, finding comfort in approximate communication (Tandem)

shadowing yt video

Did 2 online language exchange meets today. New to exchange so still getting used to it. Obviously their English is much better than my Chinese! Also practiced repeating some podcast sentences w...

Wow. I'm doing well. I am recording a lot. I'm then using ANKI to give me sentences to speak and then make comments, Who would say this sentence? Why would someone say this? and On and on. They are...

Mango Languages speaking exercises and audio journal entry

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The objective will be to keep a daily 30 minutes conversation. Today i was stuck in Beijing traffic so talked with the taxi driver quite a while. Other random conversations.

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30 min Chinese conversation lesson (Amazing Talker platform), plus 45 min preparation for lesson

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Spent time with a classmate discussing Chinese foreign policy. I was able to learn some new vocabulary from them.

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Personal audio journal, spoke to my students for an adlib story, used anki deck to give me sentences to speak and all that.

Did some shadowing, listening and repeting one podcast.

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repeated phrases from previous online course

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