Chinese speaking challenge, March 2025

Shadowing drills (very tiring)

TalkPal call mode

TalkPal call mode + sentence repetition exercises

italki lesson and some shadowing

am work on new poem performance and recording

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...

Shadowed words and sentences Yimin Chinese Elementary Chinese 500 Words + 500 Sentences + Grammar - 58:46 minutes https://youtu.be/u-lcSt6Cdr8?si=pIJSaRZe5GfJsBWT

Language Cafe

Chatting with native speaker

voice messages

Class at Bath Uni

Reading aloud (Chairmans Bao)

voice messages

1X1 lesson, making sound recordings...

1X1 lesson, making sound recordings...

Phone call with father in law

Shadowed words and sentences Yimin Chinese Improve Chinese with 10 super useful expressions  - 10:14 minutes https://youtu.be/7l2B4r5XGO0?si=Ogl50InCi3ACpoNh Yimin Chinese 100 must-know Ch...

Spoke tons

Reading aloud

doing crazy stuff, practicing Peking opera training technique, and experimenting with vocal flexibility and using different "voices" while practicing my 语言岛。。 好玩儿！

am warm ups and prep for a performance reading. Lang islands. my performance prep suck. This is normal for a newly written work.

8.44pm intensive 语言到发音练习。 no trouble logging in

Pronunciation practice