finished phase 3 for the end of year will start a new routine next year.

also continued a tv show have been watching its amazing to understand the movie from different eyes the translation sometimes just doesnt do the scene justice I love that I can somehow understand it better now an am sure even better next year.

just enjoying watching tv shows its so much better without the translation and love coming across the words have been learning and seeing use cases. I have been doing a lot of quiz with everyday chinese YouTube channel and that gets me thinking about my sentence structure but I can see it's becoming easier to make a sentence if I truly understand the words. going through the scripts have really helped with understanding the word use and recall that it better

Mum was watching a Taiwanese tv show and it had no English subtitles I became the translator and I dont think I did too bad on the vocab :) Being able to understand Tv shows without translation was the main goal to begin with and it felt great to feel like 40% there. 70% of the words for this particular drama I recognised but the dialogue was very quick. have already downloaded episode 1 transcript to go through at my own pace. The main barriers for understanding was the number of times have seen or use the word to recall it quickly. I noticed I depended on the hanzi on screens and was barely listening. I did at times hear some and comprehend it before I could recognise the hanzi but majority I read, comprehended and gave Mum the English.
I was feeling like am at the level where you cant really see or feel progress but I kept going so having this experience felt motivating like I can do this.
There are audiobooks where am like I understood nothing I need the transcript so I think my reading is ahead of listening. As this challenge comes to an end I havent acquired vocab the usual srs way but the "fun for me" way I am keen to get back to the srs to quickly learn more words but am also realising that the "fun" way also bears fruit.

have been going through a script for love020 as I noticed in my listening this has a lot of vocab I already know and logging all the words I dont already know granted there are some rare and unusual words its not a period drama and since have seen the show many years ago its easier to not get sucked into wanting to just watch the drama. some useful words some not so useful but found the approach fun. I stop and start throughout the day and I really deep dive into the words meaning. I type into the srt file the chinese and my translation/notes

Its 3:11am on Christmas Eve
The midnight good news call just re-energised me to get back to it and have been picking up from watching Chinese youtubers again going to the market etc. I just learned the word for fluent. 中文就流利了。 流利 means fluent. making a sentence hope its correct 我想要流利变的中文.

language reactor phrase pump just practicing sentences with a new word introduced

Middle of the night cant sleep but inspired by Janette's Haiku's I have landed on songs again and its refreshing to hear the words in other context and discover new words reading lyrics along in spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IzVSRAULW6qJTLRlg2EJG?si=DeGWr8dOSXOmTyG-pXgAAw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1DXahjk49z40fT
For example 没用 ，不用，因该, 感觉 all words have encountered before but just refreshing to hear it and its use here 肯定不会 meaning "definitely not" is new word and many more all from listen to a quick 3 mins song. of course I listened more than once 😂 and even read along with the lyrics. though you cant use songs to accurately pronounce it was nice to recall characters and words as they were being said. Will try to do this activity more its an all rounder, fun and great for reviewing.

Watched a new released video from MB and learnt some new conjunctions very interesting then this morning I went over and over again through a YouTube short every single sentence I either learnt a new word https://youtube.com/shorts/I1kkJPLe4Ho?si=RqQyCCbsjKR5yfYw or how to use it more effectively.

holiday season distractions but revised always great when i review a word and then i hear it over and over. was discussing how does one say listening with a friend yesterday as most encounters we had is "to hear" 你去听，听不懂，听到，听见， 听力，听说， 听取， 收听，听信， 听闻。。。。I know it depends on what's happening.

I had the opportunity to practice with a friend today and not so much learned any new vocabs but used got a chance to use the ones I had learned it was 2 hours but I would say only 30mins really count towards vocab challenge the ability to recall and use what I have been learning

I was learning same tone words that make a sentence e.g 242424. or 131313 or 232323 etc figured if I keep this in mind they will be useful reference points for tones. The words are useful sentence words.

Today activities include
phrases from the day before
tv show watching clips and grabbing out words and phrases mimicking.
YouTuber shorts and transcripts follow along
Relistening to already watched TV show. Stopping at words and phrases that jump out at me
YouTube comments

During the week
Test apps and tv shows

already forgetting to log this not a good start to the challenge 😂 I took a whole day to do the 51 question test yesterday but encountered lots of new words that am still not quiet sure if i should be collecting and reusing or just trust the tool and let it just keep coming up when it wants to. I spent time trying to understand the use of some prepositions words that keeps coming up in different use case e.g dui

using an app to test and picking up new vocab as I do the test. also picking up from watching tv shows today was words like 感慨 still need to spend time reading how to best store/reuse this words but am luckily re-encountering the words in other apps and readings I am doing.

lots of new words picked up in todays reading and excercise also a lot from watching shows not sure how am going to practice them with this challenge but will he reading this blog to get some ideas. I have already been focusing and practicing vocab already known but how to store new ones without forgetting the current words and use case.