Participation
in Chinese listening challenge, February 2025



21 minutes
0.35h

LingQ mini stories. This is my last activity for this challenge, now to get back to all the thinks I have neglected, flash cards, reading, TV, the wife!!

30 minutes
0.5h

For a change I tried some music with Chinese lyrics

240 minutes
4.0h

Various LingQ mini-stories

90 minutes
1.5h

Cardiff University Upper Intermediate Course, 90/30 Mandarin/English at at conservative guess

50 minutes
0.83h

Da Peng podcast

132 minutes
2.2h

Podcasts, but not so much now I have reached my target

318 minutes
5.3h

Podcasts. And that completes my target of 100 hours

100 minutes
1.67h

Course at Bath University

380 minutes
6.33h

Podcasts, mostly LingQ mini stories

30 minutes
0.5h

Tutor

232 minutes
3.87h

More LingQ mini-stories

222 minutes
3.7h

Found a series of mini-stories on LingQ (think these are new). Downloaded the Food and Travel collections to the playlist. Quite good, hopefully find more there

278 minutes
4.63h

Podcasts

310 minutes
5.17h

Podcasts

90 minutes
1.5h

Cardiff University Upper Intermediate course

456 minutes
7.6h

Podcasts all day

360 minutes
6.0h

Podcasts

100 minutes
1.67h

My Bath Uni class today, this really was all in Chinese. Have deducted 10 minutes from the 110 total as I was probably speaking for that time ( or staring into space searching for words! )

26 minutes
0.43h

Watching a video for my Bath Uni course, quite difficult, very heavy Taiwan accent

288 minutes
4.8h

Podcasts...

30 minutes
0.5h

Today was 90 minutes with my private tutor, face to face but sadly not all in Chinese. Recording 30 minutes listening this week

178 minutes
2.97h

Less time to listen today, but got in some podcasts on the go

498 minutes
8.3h

Slow chinese podcast

332 minutes
5.53h

More of the same podcasts, particularly Teatime Chinese

452 minutes
7.53h

As well as my course (logged separately) I did a 2 hour hike and 4 hours driving, ample opportunity for listening. Today was the audio from the HSK 3 & 4 books, the Discover China 3 book audio, and some Teatime Chinese podcasts. [I use LingQ playlists for most of my listening, both for things I have found on LingQ plus a lot of podcasts and the entire library (well HSK1-5) of Mandarin Bean that I have imported. This give me some excellent stats for my listening at the end of each day, and if there is something I don't understand I can drill down into the AI generated transcripts. That said I am not endorsing LingQ and such, whilst the platform is a brilliant idea it is full of issues and bugs, and the Mandaring dictionary is absolute pants , it just cant be trusted. But having bought a years subscription I am at least getting some use]

75 minutes
1.25h

Today was my other course (Cardiff University Mandarin Higher Intermediate), delivered almost entirely in Mandarin, I recon its worth 75 minutes out of the 120 minutes taken.

474 minutes
7.9h

Nothing but listening to podcasts today

361 minutes
6.02h

Podcasts on the go, largely from Mandarin Bean today

30 minutes
0.5h

Language Cafe. Not many mandarin speakers tonight but think it was worth 30 minutes listening

60 minutes
1.0h

Started a new course today at Bath University in the UK, almost entirety in Chinese but I will long 60 minutes of the 110 minute class as listening

Wow thats so cool is this a degree course for Chinese?

Nothing as grand as a degree course, this is "Learn Chinese with Weekly News", 10 weeks.

378 minutes
6.3h

I am doing the Fluent Listener course so have well curated listening resources, and with this challenge decided to increase my listening to the max. Today was largely downloads from Mandarin Bean.

also on the fluent listener course




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:110.4%
Score110.35
Rank1st
Hours reported110.35
Goal100h