Participation
in Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024



240 minutes
4.0h

read aloud, practiced pronunciation with a tutor, got some really good tips on in, ou, and ao

120 minutes
2.0h
2 minutes
0.03h

spent time in conversation, trying to make sure I sounded every consonant and worked on my mouth shape with the yu and other u sounds plus ong's etc.

240 minutes
4.0h

1. Listening to podcasts and trying to pick out all the consonant sounds and repeating phrases

240 minutes
4.0h

conversation pronunciation practice

120 minutes
2.0h

1-shadowing
2-initals practice with proper mouth position

120 minutes
2.0h

1-mimicked substitles in Chinese drama
2-Read my news articles out loud
3-Practice Pinyin

90 minutes
1.5h

1. mimicked Realtime Mandarin vocabulary words
2. Practiced speaking with correct mouth position in conversation
3. Listened/read captions- Part 5 in the pronunciation course

60 minutes
1.0h

1-watched pronunciation course intro.
2-watched youtube video-helpful tip:instead of speaking Chinese like speaking English in the throat and back of mouth, keep the Chinese sounds toward the front of your mouth
3-As I listened and read out loud I made sure to try to use proper tongue and mouth form while pronouncing the song, yu, wu, ch,zh, sh, j, q,sh sounds.

60 minutes
1.0h

20 min. song recitation with zh ch sh/j q x mouth position
40 min-newspaper reading practice with words and mouth position

15 minutes
0.25h

1. shadowing audio from our family Chinese class with my daughter 2. youglish shadow practice with new vocabulary




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:72.6%
Score21.78
Rank2nd
Hours reported21.78
Goal30h