Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024

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 p...

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...

practice glossika

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 reducti...

relaxing film and shadowing. Wrote a poem in chinese.

Tons of stuff

Cliff Larsen joined the challenge!

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....

Tones, tones, tones! Using this challenge to go back to basics and drilling those tones using tone pair video on YT and reviewing flashcards of words where I am not 100% on the tones and verbalising.

Practicing #83 from the Slow Chinese archive 雾霾中的中国 and reviewing the recording of my last attempts to read this.

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 ...

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 m...

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glossika

practiced mimic words

prepping for live speaking tomorrow.

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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 ...

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

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