shadowing

Class. the blessed pinyin chart. Totally nailed first column. Could I recognize them in a dark alley? Heck no.

MICRO SESSION after reviews. I am finding that the words I am reviewing are coming up in my listening/ shadowing and chorusing.. This is sooooo freaking cool. I am also using micro review sessions to whittle away at my deck.

60 mins speech exercises, and shadowing/ chorusing
Earlier in morning 10 MINS articulation I notice two things. my tongue is sharper. Like literally, it feels actually sharper, more in focus and more on target. I also notice that the text I am listening to and shadowing/chorusing is coming to life. I am able to find within it gems everywhere which are directly useable in my daily speech practice.

morning shadowing, noticing my tongue is more energetic, more alive. Sharper and more sounds are correctly placed. Thank you Ollie for this opportunity. It is amazing. I am earning so much.

morning shadowing, noticing my tongue is more energetic, more alive. Sharper and more sounds are correctly placed. Thank you Ollie for this opportunity. It is amazing. I am earning so much.

Lesson- pronunciation. First experience of live shadowing.

1.25 x speed shadowing and echoing. funfun. Needs a relaxed mouth.

echoing, chorusing...relaxed mouth and articulation fun w Journey TT West

shadowing w and wo articulation ex.

speech exercises

outlier linguistics

shadowing and mouth exercises

Lesson and warm ups/ exercises

small precise mouth movements, nothing extraneous.

影子练习。 我很喜欢。

影子联系。

warmup exercise 1-30.. shadowing

shadowing. small, crisp 嘴巴 movement. (as modelled by teacher)...After articulation exercises, I was able to see a distinct improvement!

articulation and dexterity exercise given by teacher.

Shadowing, but mostly echoing and articulation.. separating initials and finals for tricky friends. JttWest

lesson with a broadcasting trained teacher. Awesome!! Lot of exercises.

Articulation while looking at diagrams of consonant placement. Helped.

Artic. w camera/recording

Articulation. with shadowing and chorusing. Camera open on screen so I am watching my articulation throughout. Stopping recording, chorusing and then taping the brief passage, usually working on two or more difficult sounds in combo for later review..

REVISION- CONSONANTS

PRONUNCIATION LESSON。 aWESOME.

Articulation. Tiring, perhaps less tiring.

Articulation.

ARTICULATION

increments of time Articulation

课堂。老师不在这儿。。 I spent the time practicing articulation. 30 mins is Intense!

I am proud of the micro 发音联系sessions they reflect really intense work. hahaha, I said 发音联系for one minute.

Articulation, an insane tongue twister, self written.

Articulation. poem 《海子》

JttW shadowing.

JttW articulation. 10 mins is pretty tiring

Articulation really happy with process and progress.

Articulation. There is a reason I am logging mini sessions. Bec I am intergrating them into the wider study terrain that involves constant Chinese listening, and articulation bursts as a change of pace within that wider terrain.
Also bec articulation is more like a physical workout, which is nice.

Articulation. This time I am applying it to words in context that I am actively learning. 我很认真，有责任心，有耐心。
Wǒ hěn rènzhēn (serious), yǒu zérèn xīn (responsible), yǒu nàixīn (patient).
Need physical rest periodically. This is tiring, but only at this stage.

ARTICULATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SHADOWING AND ECHOING. sorry. I think this is the best thing I have come across in the pronunciation game. Ever. Thank you Funmi.

Articulation

articulation. need drink of water!

articulation. pretty exhausting. Probably a good exercise before sleep

articulation

articulation fun and games. cool

Last articulation exercise of the day. Recommended by Funmi. Link here .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjbSKP9Rac Awesome exercise. It adds a dimension to what I am already doing.

working in my friend R, in combo SH, Z, C and J. OMGosh. After 2 1/2 hours of choir.
Choir is really helpful in developing deep level vocal apparatus awareness, and singers are expected to cope with other languages.

JttWest chorusing working on R and other friends

Outlier Linguistics, on accent and some stuff on chorusing. While running JttWest in Chinese in the background. Steven Krashen "Din in the head." Turns out that there is a name for what I do.
Quote "I find that aural input is much more effective than reading in maintaining the "din in the head" that Stephen Krashen and others have talked about as being very important to language acquisition. This matches up with my experience, that having this involuntary Chinese chatter going on in my head correlates highly with increased fluency, confidence, and willingness to speak as opposed to trepidation."
https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/40845-studying-with-movies/

shadowing and chorusing. Wow. Love this method of sound training

morning shadowing and echoing - tongue position. O My Gosh, I am loving this. What a way to start the day.

Speaking in live forum and getting 口语发音 feedback. Reading aloud and drilling sounds that need love.

lesson, working on pronunciation and conversaion

我在朗读。。poetry.

SHADOWING, CHORUSING A POEM.

chorusing, echoing shadowing session.

I realized I was doing a lot of fairly poor grade shadowing while doing other things. Useful for acclimating to coping with language while dealing with life, but not useful for working on accent. So intensive shadowing and echoing of a short passage, drilling down on individual sounds and getting tongue correct. Sore belly. Diaphragm work out akin to serious singing.

Outlier Linguistics, Chorusing, rhythm and intonation. Babies cry in the pitch profile of their native language in the first week after birth. French babies cry with ascending pitch, and German ones with the opposite. Whoah, those cool baby dudes are putting together a whole language operating system starting with phrasal intonation patterning. And doing complicated things like breathing, digesting and... well, communicating. At age one week...

Walk and talk with a crazy phrase designed to teach me new vocab- 同事同时有相同。我们同意，走 同样 同归。Tóngshì (colleagues) tóngshí (same time) yǒu xiāngtóng (same idea). Wǒmen tóngyì (agree), zǒu tóngyàng (same) tóng guī (destination).

Shadowing. JttWest

SHADOWING. Tetime Chinese 关于 Journey to the West Game and its company.

Ball of Fire. 影子练习。

Lesson and Journey to the West

First of 2 lessons today. 说话和 朗读。I have to say all the shadowing over the past week or so, has definitely benefited my speaking and increased my confidence. After speaking briefly in a worldwide student forum, - I heard a recording of myself- 我觉得很好。Very cool.

Journey to the West. Shadowing and familiarizing myself with the text.

Journey to the West, shadowing. Hoping to read the text during the reading challenge next month. Not in the native version hahaha.

Journey to the West.

Journey to the West .

Dong Qing.

Teatime Chinese. Monkey King (Black Myth Wukong) . Tongue positions, dental, palatal and retroflex. haha, this tied me in a knot..."者是历史上最成功的中国游戏之一” I probably tried to think it too much.

影子联系。 Li Can.

FOR CLIFF LARSEN.
The Li Can recording, 30 mins of walking and talking around a park. Good subtitles and a transcript- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN0i7H-GKuY
Cliff I do not understand very much at all on my first listening as I am relitively new to native speed material. I keep the vid running through the day as I study, capture new words for the review deck...write in english, do simple tasks etc.

在朗读和说话练习。 practicing reading aloud and speaking. Reading poems, mine and 海子。

Listening to Li Can and drilling 声调 in mini clauses, rather than 影子说话。。Logging new words of interest for learning.

Shadowing Li Can.(Eazy Mandarin You Tube) Nice material, well spoken. Will use it for the reading challenge

Walk and talk. Drilling 1st tone change exemplars. Building on morning study.

在朗读联系。。 《海上的风》刘饶民
一（yi) tone change rule error found.. so drilling the 一 tone changes in combination with 1/2/3 tones , from recent reading eg 一头狮子 （a lion) etc
Aiming to drill this tone change thro the day..

Teatime Chinese 在朗读， 影听说话。hahah I just made that up. Google translates as "Shadow listens to talk". I like it. A little Dong Qing at the end for variety. I needed an afternoon quiet hand sewing. This was perfect.

Outlier linguistics tone training.

Outlier Linguistics 声调 training. 睡觉了。

PRON DRILLS- 新单词。傍晚的时候。

TEATIME CHINESE Shadowing and reading. Evening

在课堂说话。 one on one lesson. After nearly 30 hours 口语发音练习。。I noticed a definite improvement in -
1 ability to use new words in live speech context,
2 Ability to form longer and less tangled sentences.
3 Ability to read aloud correctly in all aspects including phrasal rhythms and tongue/mouth and pitch placements
4 Formation of live speech at realistic speed more or less correctly, (or correctly enough for my level of engagement with the language.)
我很高兴。
It works!

Shadowing. Dong Qing. 朗读者

Listening, sporadic shadowing, learning new words from continuous native listening content (repeated). Claiming 3o mins of a long session .. very comfortable combining all into one activity. Love listening to old people speak in Chinese about their 重要的意义的事情。So touching. To be clear, my understanding of native level content is small. I am still an intermediate level language acquirer. I just like to hang out in the big pool with the big kids.

Teatime Chinese。 Dong Qing.

黎明的时候在听再说。。 Dong Qing. The Reader. I spoke the old man's words. I felt, not myself, but another. This is perhaps the greatest gift of this whole adventure.

Outlier linguistics lessons while listening to Dong Qing, learning a new word, and thinking about syllable length in 2 syllable words. Outlier Linguistics is saying that "The syllables are approximately even in length (in 2 syllable words." Do you agree?
I don't.

Shadowing while loading 复习 cards and learning new words. Spent longer.

Walk and talk. Working on 4 phrases 口语发音 using new vocab from morning's listening, shadowing and learning new vocab sessions. Really believe in multitasking. And rest.

Shadowing, repeating an ep of Teatime Chinese, logging new vocab, pron difficulties. First time thro only shadowing w headphones, then after that, no headphones and shadowing while adding vocab and pron notes. Intense. Currently writing while listening to the episode. Not intense, Easy.

Outlier Linguitics, really getting tongue positions ironed out. Really helpfull. Has listening tests, so you know where the problems are. 10/10 Tho the linguistic lables confuse me.

Outlier Linguistics revising tongue positions for the retroflex (r zh), palatal (c/z) and dental (ji/qi/xi) sounds. Helps form the sounds correctly

Walk and talk, the after,shadowing Dong Qing.

early morning Dong Qing.

晚上课堂。 说很多事情。还有朗读。

30 mins shadowing and drills. Has anyone got any good tongue twisters, especially for ji, qi, xi combined with r and sh, AND c/z in any combinations? Sort of, lazy tongue therapy. I bet broadcasters and actors have to learn and practice tons. It would be fun to chuck a couple tongue twisters into the daily adventures.

afternoon Walk and Talk drilling several phrases, getting more bang for the buck.

在听和说话。

Dong Qing shadowing. This time a male actor. Blown away by his voice production skills.

I am listening/ learning and shadowing sporadically all at the same time. About 3 hours spent, claiming 30 mins here estimating the time spent shadowing, and drilling new words during this. As I put words into 复习 deck, as I practice handwriting their 汉字， I listen to great material w headphones, sporadically tuning in, pulling out vocab of interest and learning it, and shadowing . All three work together seamlessly. Interleaving. Not hard.....
Collecting cultural insights- 我们伟大的时代 Wǒmen wěidà de shídài. Our great era.
Material- Dong Qing The Reader S1.
Excellent for insights into the Chinese perspective of their life and time. 非常感动。
Right now writing in english, listening to Harry Potter in Chinese, occasionally shadowing, and logging a new expression (quoted above).
Earphones really help, boom box might work too. Don't know

Dong Qing, The Reader 1. 朗读者 第一季 I NEED A TRANSCRIPT. Anyone know how I can get one? ChatGpt? How can I turn audio into Text? Ollie do you have a tutorial on your blog? PS Ollie you definitely need to include this in your listening course. Both the material, and the tutorial. Listening is twice as effective with the text. And the texts we want are not easily accessible. Ollie I am crafting my responses for you, as a way of saying thank you for all the work you have done for us. 谢谢您， 拥抱。

I forgot I had a one on one class. We worked on 海子 poem amongst other things.

Ending the day >shadowing utterly adorable material> 祝福大家。

After writing a poem, practicing reading it aloud. Trialing a new method based on a singers technique for producing effortless high tones. Applying this to 声调。 有意思。 There does seem to be a reduction in efforting. Then shadowed some native material hosted by Dong Qing, with a number of guests reading aloud their poetry. Crazy. Imitating different accents and even dialect passages. 我非常非常喜欢。This is one of the craziest things about this whole adventure- merging with completely different people. Who I might never meet. Who might never speak to me. Yet, in some crazy way, through shadowing we meet, merge, briefly and then separate...
There is one other wierd thing I am doing. When I am not actively speaking I am listening to the material. Now, while typing I am listening, With earphones. My brain copes effortlessly with two language streams at the same time. Do we even begin to know the potential of out own minds?
I am a very ordinary person. I just shake the snowglobe a lot and watch where the flakes settle. hugshugs from New Zealand.

relaxing film and shadowing. Wrote a poem in chinese.

listening to native content. Professional speaker- Dong Qing plus guests. And having a good time, tho not understanding everything. https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep413890?from_spmid=666.19.0.0 I have a class coming up. I should be well warmed up.

Exploring 一个新的办法。 (a new method). Listening to a 博客， alternating one sentence shadowing and one sentence listening. 我发现这个方法真的帮据了我。 I found it really helped. Why? The brief rest in between speaking helped me to shadow and produce better quality sounds. (Ollie this write up is for you). Also, alternating two activities kept be better focused. I think this is called Interleaving. Lastly, the intense internal listening bursts brought something to the speaking bursts. It helped me focus on subtle internal sensations while actually speaking. I think this was the most important effect. The improvement in quality of my speaking was noticeable and was sustained throughout the test session.
非常有意思！
My conclusion is that I will continue to explore this avenue. Thanks Ollie for providing the framework for these interesting explorations. 祝福您！
As I write this, I am also listening to a 博客。I developed this method for myself on the Listening Challenge last month. It is surprisingly 舒舒服服. 加油！

Shadowing. Teatime Chinese. Gemini 的话题。

early morning warm ups and speaking in Chinese with 北京人。 This is the first time I have ever spoken with a fluent mad Beijinger. Crazy accent. Doable. I kind of like the accent. Like Eeyore with a mouth full or yummy prickles. What a way to start the day! Without the warm ups I would not have managed it so early in the morning. (I used some speech and some singing warm ups).

prepping for live speaking tomorrow.

Class. one on one

Beautiful professionally produced speaking can be really, really helpful. The sounds are formed with great clarity and it is easier both to see and hear what is going on.
Earphones also help more than you would think.
I am working with a lovely example here https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FQ4y1a7WP/?uid=425631465134793161375750 . The poem 面朝大海 春暖花开
《海子 》.
I think the speaker is 出演演员：主持人：董卿 ：
This is worth checking out. The pace of the speaking is not too fast, yet the content is intended for native audiences.
Preparing for a lesson.

60 mins shadow and chorus, with drills
60 mins phrase cadences (with new vocab items)
6o mins Walk and talk, phrase cadences.