Participation
in Chinese listening challenge, June 2025
65 minutes 1.08h
Podcasts
78 minutes 1.3h
Podcasts
155 minutes 2.58h
podcasts
197 minutes 3.28h
various podcasts / stories on LingQ
320 minutes 5.33h
Podcasts
15 minutes 0.25h
Meal with classmates
20 minutes 0.33h
Listening to music - Transitions (The Bristol / Taiwan band)
261 minutes 4.35h
Listening to podcasts etc on LingQ
45 minutes 0.75h
2 hours at the Bristol Mandarin Language Meetup, guess it was 45 minutes listening
298 minutes 4.97h
Found more to listen to on LingQ - but first and last time for Peppa Pig!!
377 minutes 6.28h
Podcasts
30 minutes 0.5h
90 minutes in-person with a private tutor, guess I listened for 30 minutes
7 minutes 0.12h
Audio for HSK-4 section 9
76 minutes 1.27h
Zero to Hero HSK-4 course section 9
605 minutes 10.08h
There is some advice in Olle's excellent course "The Fluent Listener" about finding time to listen more, and today I was able to, right up to when my wife complained!
60 minutes 1.0h
我跟按摩师说，继续说，我需要尽量多听。我猜90分钟的按摩里，有60分钟是在听!!
370 minutes 6.17h
Podcasts..
20 minutes 0.33h
Hiking with a native speaker for 4 hours, guess I was listening for 45 minutes!
254 minutes 4.23h
Podcasts
22 minutes 0.37h
Zero to hero HSK-4 course 12.5
304 minutes 5.07h
Too hot to do anything but listen to podcasts
340 minutes 5.67h
Podcasts on the go
18 minutes 0.3h
Zero to hero HSK-4 course 12.4
264 minutes 4.4h
Podcasts on the flight from China to the UK. And I watched a Chinese film on the plane until I realised it was in Cantonese!! (not recorded)
Actually this was June 17th
科龙10 minutes 0.17h
Listening to locals
Actually this was June 17th
科龙43 minutes 0.72h
zero to hero HSK-4 course, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Actually this was June 17th
科龙212 minutes 3.53h
various podcasts
82 minutes 1.37h
Zero to Hero HSK-4 course, chapter 11
180 minutes 3.0h
various podcasts + audio from HSK-4下 book
45 minutes 0.75h
Hiking with mixed group just outside Beijing, not as much Chinese spoken today
186 minutes 3.1h
various podcasts until I got bored and read a few chapters of "Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in Shanghai" ~ Mandarin Companion Graded Reader.
60 minutes 1.0h
Listening / interacting with locals (Hiking around Chuandixia village just outside Beijing with a mixed English/Chinese group)
I mean Cuandixia!
科龙120 minutes 2.0h
Travel from Linzhou to Beijing, everything from the Taxi driver talking to my wife to the continual station announcements for an hour, conversations on the rain with the staff and passengers, hotel check-in, restaurant/bar and finally a massage. Difficult to add up but conservatively at least 2 hours of listening (exposure!) on top of my 2 hours of podcasts
115 minutes 1.92h
Podcasts - mainly Boya Chinese email chain
174 minutes 2.9h
Teatime Chinese podcasts
45 minutes 0.75h
Opportunities all day to listen to the locals - guess it was 45 minutes in total
240 minutes 4.0h
Teatime Chinese podcast
60 minutes 1.0h
Found myself on a tourist shuttle in China - just listening to the locals
520 minutes 8.67h
Somewhat easy start as today I travelled for 10 hours by metro, train and taxi across China from Lanzhou in Gansu Province to Linzhou in Henan Province. Listened to podcasts from Ulowa and Teatime Chinese as well as train announcements etc.
Keep us up to date on your travels!! Also can we access the UIowa podcasts?
Cliff LarsenThis is the link I have for the podcasts http://collections.uiowa.edu/chinese/topic_beginning.html but it isn't accessible for me in China, even with a VPN. But I access it through LingQ, actually I load almost everything I listen to into LingQ as I can then use the AI generated transcripts and exercises if I want.
科龙As for the China trip, it is almost at an end. I flew in from Singapore in early May, attended a family wedding in Tianjin, then travelled to Xian, Zhangye, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Lanzhou and now Linzhou. Will be in Beijing at the weeked and home in England next week.
科龙| Challenge time progress: | |
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| Goal progress: |
| Score | 104.89 |
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| Rank | 1st |
| Hours reported | 104.89 |
| Goal | 100h |
I've been listening to Mandarin Blueprint's founders about listening as well. When I'm alone at the house, I will put on podcasts, or my favorite drama on repeat and just let it play all day! Phil has said to turn it down some if need be, but don't turn it off. It's a lot of passive listening, but sometimes you'll tune in to what is being said and do more active listening.