Participation
in Pronunciation challenge, February 2015



10 minutes
0.17h

reviewing Clavis Sinica's "Stepping Stones" Lessons 1-5, spending a minute here or there to practice lines with more difficult pronunciation streams

6 minutes
0.1h

reading about '-n' vs. '-ing' http://blog.skritter.com/2015/01/confusing-mandarin-pronunciation-part-1.html

6 minutes
0.1h

read your articles about the second tone and aspiration

5 minutes
0.08h

Re-recorded 2 HSK sentences for WaiChinese and replied to tutor Jenn(y).

8 minutes
0.13h

Hanzi WallChart Pronunciation Package Tone Pairs - listen & repeat all of the "4-5 tone pairs" and "tone triplets", and read the "Tones 一下" PDF.

10 minutes
0.17h

Sinosplice: practiced pronouncing all "2-character adjectives" at http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/tone-pair-drills/3

1 minutes
0.02h

... and "Two-Character Modifiers" (Sinosplice)

5 minutes
0.08h

read about pronunciation theory at http://www.hackingchinese.com/how-learning-some-basic-theory-can-improve-your-pronunciation/

15 minutes
0.25h

WaiChinese: submitted ~20 HSK sentences and one Spring Festival couplet line.

5 minutes
0.08h

WaiChinese: practicing with Chengyu

5 minutes
0.08h

WaiChinese... tried a couple of 1st tone pairings (got 5 out of 5 on both)




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:25.2%
Score1.26
Rank18th
Hours reported1.26
Goal5h