Reading one article aloud

Shadowing podcasts

Audio diary and reading aloud

Shadowing podcasts

Morning pronunciation practice. Listening back to the recording, I noticed a lot of my tone mistakes were on simple words I learned very early on (公共、比较、等）. As a beginner I must have begun pronouncing them gǒnggòng and bǐjiāo and never had the mistake corrected, so it became a habit. I should record myself reading HSK1 texts to find and fix more of these errors...

Some tone pairs, some reading aloud, some talking to myself.

Shadowing podcasts / videos

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Pronunciation practice. Started waving a pen around like a conductor's baton for each tone -- 我觉得是一个有效的办法

University of Bath lesson. I think I might have spoken a bit more than last time.

Practising tone pairs, then recorded myself reading aloud. Slightly improved since the start of the month, I think.

A bit of pronunciation practice

Pronunciation practice

More trying to fix my pronunciation. I think I'd better focus on this for the rest of the month...

Recorded myself reading aloud. Actually a bit painful to realise how bad my pronunciation is -- even the 4th tone was wrong some of the time! Better to find out now than to never know...

Reading aloud

Pronunciation practice

University of Bath class

Audio diary

A bit more reading aloud

University of Bath "peer assisted learning" event

Some shadowing podcasts, some reading aloud. Looks like the website is fixed 🤞

Shadowing podcasts. Tricky at first but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

Started an audio diary. It's surprisingly hard to think of what to say! I'll have to make notes during the day tomorrow.

HSK 3 practice class. Not all that much speaking

University of Bath class. Rough guess for how long I was speaking during the lesson.

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