Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024

This is becoming quiet addictive and this morning I was quiet obsessed with 去and出 as I had a word in tone pairs T1+T2 called 初级。I record and then use the transcription to mandarin to see if there w...

mimicking native audio and careful speaking

Lesson and Journey to the West

Gi Al joined the challenge!

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

My daughter went to the YO YO pinyin page, https://yoyochinese.com/chinese-learning-tools/Mandarin-Chinese-pronunciation-lesson/pinyin-chart-table looked up one pinyin word, chose a tone and I wro...

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 st...

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.

For the 3 weeks I plan to do the 20 tone drills 1 a day until the 5th of November. I just finished T1+T1 I recorded and can see so many areas I thought I was ok but can see I need to work on e.g I ...

Journey to the West .

Funmi joined the challenge!

Dong Qing.

Little bit of everything!

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...

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

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

I got tons of pronunciation done today. Various methods. Honestly, focusing on it like this.....awesome. thanks Olle!

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.