Chinese listening challenge, June 2025

Listen 2 comprehensible input Chinese videos on Youtube channel "Lazy Chinese & Xiaogua Chinese"

various podcasts

Chinese Podcast with Shenglan

Zero to Hero HSK-4 course, chapter 11

Tons of listening!

Listen to one comprehensible input video about the Qingming Festival from the YouTube channel 'Xiaogua Chinese'.

Listen 5 comprehensible input Chinese videos on Youtube channel "Lazy Chinese - Comprehensible Input"

various podcasts + audio from HSK-4下 book

Didn't get much time to do anything but play Go. Brief chat and overheard conversations in Chinese.

Hiking with mixed group just outside Beijing, not as much Chinese spoken today

Hsk chill LOFI podcast

various podcasts until I got bored and read a few chapters of "Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in Shanghai" ~ Mandarin Companion Graded Reader.

Listening / interacting with locals (Hiking around Chuandixia village just outside Beijing with a mixed English/Chinese group)

Siriporn Pianchorbtham joined the challenge!

du chinese audiobooks

Podcasts on the train to Nottingham. Mostly Dashu Mandarin and Haike.

Little in the AM. little in the PM.

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...

Podcasts - mainly Boya Chinese email chain