Chinese translation challenge, August 2024

This challenge is about practising translation, either from your native language to Chinese, or from Chinese to your native language. Please read the linked article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

10 minutes

Not much today but I reached my goal!

Sunday, Sep 01

Cliff Larsen
51 minutes

all kinds of stuff. Of course now at this point I am thinking of MORE things to translate... ANNOYING! at the end of the month! Next year!

Saturday, Aug 31

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Translated a prayer and some other fun stuff.

Friday, Aug 30

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Do I get a special prize for being the ONLY one on Hacking Chinese for the WHOLE MONTH?! Come on people. I learned a lot this month. So many ways to make translation more fun and interesting. OK no...

Thursday, Aug 29

Cliff Larsen
51 minutes

Worked on a bunch of different things today.

Wednesday, Aug 28

Cliff Larsen
60 minutes

World on class ideas and translated tons of stuff!

Tuesday, Aug 27

Cliff Larsen
27 minutes

Not much but a few translatey type things.

Monday, Aug 26

Cliff Larsen
27 minutes

More of the same. Always looking for real authentic chances to translate in real time!

Sunday, Aug 25

Cliff Larsen
56 minutes

Great new game kinda. On anki, I get a sentence in English, translate it into Chinese. Then if I'm wrong I hit the red button, come up again in 3 minutes. If I'm right, then hit green. If I'm wron...

Saturday, Aug 24

Cliff Larsen
60 minutes

I did really well with my sentences, and then I had to translate a recipe for my mother-in-law of rice and beans in the rice cooker... she is curious on how to do it.

Friday, Aug 23

Cliff Larsen
50 minutes

Am I the only one here? I'll get first place and last place!

Thursday, Aug 22

Cliff Larsen
48 minutes

Finally made a did a GIMKIT Translation game. I was shown a sentence in Chinese, then I had to choose 1 of 4 English translations. Nice. Simple but good.

Wednesday, Aug 21

Cliff Larsen
50 minutes

Journal, anki, developing a GIMKIT translation game for myself. Sentence in CHinese, choose the correct English translation, A B C or D!? Then VICE versa. English sentence, figure out one of the 4 ...

Tuesday, Aug 20

Cliff Larsen
20 minutes

I helped my mother in law download Google translate on her Chinese phone.

Monday, Aug 19

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Not much but I got a bit done. We played a good game from ANKI where my 16y/o read the Chinese sentence and we quickly translated the sentence into English. It was fun!

Sunday, Aug 18

Cliff Larsen
50 minutes

Tons done today while I waited for the boy at football practice.

Saturday, Aug 17

Cliff Larsen
40 minutes

I used those lists you find on Xiao Hong Shu and tried to figure out what the Chinese was even though I had an English saying but it was exactly perfect. Learned a lot!

Friday, Aug 16

Cliff Larsen
20 minutes

Just a little bit today. I helped my parents on SIGNAL talk with my Chinese mother-in-law.

Thursday, Aug 15

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

Little bit today and yesterday. Stuff from school and working on a dialogue from Chinese pod.

Wednesday, Aug 14

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

worked on words posted up around my school along with some other translation issues.

Monday, Aug 12

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

recorded a journal in English then translated it into Chinese. Spoke to a store clerk for my mother in law about them having only 1 shoe she liked, not a pair.

Sunday, Aug 11

Cliff Larsen

Cliff Larsen joined the challenge!

Saturday, Aug 10

Cliff Larsen

Giovanna joined the challenge!

Friday, Aug 09

Giovanna

Roberta Agapios joined the challenge!

Friday, Aug 09

Roberta Agapios

May joined the challenge!

Thursday, Aug 08

May

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen13.32102%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants9
Hours reported13.32
DurationAugust 10, 2024 to
August 31, 2024 (22 days)