Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024

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 w...

Chaycchay joined the challenge!

Haven't been doing any pronunciation practice recently, until today. Went back and reviewed some lessons in the Mandarin Blueprint Pronunciation Mastery course.

Reviewed my tones pairs and after yesterday getting 6 wrong, today I got them all correct! YEAH! On to the next one tomorrow!

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

listen and repeat with teach yourself mandarin audio they have a bit where it focuses on just the vowel in each tone and guessing which tone. Stopped about 11:30am on and off LLR with doing the le...

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. Quot...

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

Great idea: Yo Yo Chinese has a chart that is pretty handy. Tone Pair chart. Click refresh. New set here. Screen shot. Print out 3 times. take one, cover up all the pinyin. Take second and cover up...

just reading the list is getting tedious so am either going to cut the word list down or just put about 10 in a sentence to get use to that tone and practice at different time of the day that same ...

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

Working with tutor reading aloud and creating my own sentences with her corrections when I said things incorrectly.

worked on challenges with my tutor and received some really good advice about placing the words perhaps the challenging word in a sentence. I can definitely see how this would help. On my pronuncia...

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