Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024
Recent activities

janette raven
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.

janette raven
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...

janette raven
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.

janette raven

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

janette raven

William_C
loving PLECO flash cards. Awesome. And SKRITTER I don't need to pay for the app to practice the tones! NICE!

Cliff Larsen

William_C

janette raven

janette raven
Yesterday and today..again reading Slow Chinese #73 and recording, listening..

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

Cassandra Hafen
I have been dictating a specialized text to google translate. Chunking long sentences into shorter ones seems to be more effective than reading two-line sentences, for example. The fact that the te...

HelenaC

William_C

janette raven

Nick Dee

William_C
Nick Dee joined the challenge!

Nick Dee

Cliff Larsen
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 broadcaster...

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

janette raven

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

janette raven

Angela (书歆)
Leaderboard
Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
1. | ![]() | janette raven | 87.25 | |
2. | ![]() | Cassandra Hafen | 21.78 | |
3. | ![]() | Cliff Larsen | 20.67 | |
4. | ![]() | Funmi | 11.16 | |
5. | ![]() | William_C | 4.36 | |
6. | ![]() | Dae | 3.6 | |
7. | ![]() | Nick Dee | 2.25 | |
8. | ![]() | Angela (书歆) | 2.0 | |
9. | ![]() | Warren Lammert | 1.92 | |
10. | ![]() | HelenaC | 0.5 |
Link | https://www.hackingchinese.... |
Participants | 17 |
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Hours reported | 155.49 |
Duration | October 10, 2024 to October 31, 2024 (22 days) |