Pronunciation challenge, February 2015

Spend as much high-quality time as you can, doing various exercises to improve your pronunciation in Chinese (or other languages if you feel like it). Please read the challenge article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

6 minutes

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

Friday, Feb 27

jblinguaphile
6 minutes

read your articles about the second tone and aspiration

Friday, Feb 27

jblinguaphile
30 minutes

Hanzi Wall Chart Tone Pairs

Friday, Feb 27

Michele
8 minutes

wai chinese

Thursday, Feb 26

电猫
20 minutes

Thursday, Feb 26

Rachel
60 minutes

wei chinese and video (on own)

Thursday, Feb 26

Shannon
30 minutes

Waichinese

Thursday, Feb 26

Steven Neubauer

Оля Ульянова joined the challenge!

Thursday, Feb 26

Оля Ульянова
25 minutes

Waichinese: 10 re-submissions. Glossika Fluency: 50 sentences.

Thursday, Feb 26

naphta
35 minutes

WaiChinese practice on HSK sentences and re-dos.

Thursday, Feb 26

James
5 minutes

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

Thursday, Feb 26

jblinguaphile
20 minutes

Wednesday, Feb 25

Rachel
180 minutes

Wednesday, Feb 25

Shannon
30 minutes

Waichinese

Wednesday, Feb 25

Steven Neubauer
30 minutes

Wednesday, Feb 25

Daniel G
5 minutes

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

Wednesday, Feb 25

jblinguaphile
8 minutes

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.

Wednesday, Feb 25

jblinguaphile
35 minutes

Waichinese: 4 re-submissions and 12 submissions on ch- sounds. Glossika Fluency: 50 sentences.

Wednesday, Feb 25

naphta
1 minutes

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

Wednesday, Feb 25

jblinguaphile
10 minutes

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

Wednesday, Feb 25

jblinguaphile
10 minutes

Wai Chinese sentences

Wednesday, Feb 25

Manuela
20 minutes

Found some new sentences added to my WaiChinese account so I went through them, don't feel like I'm going to meet my 10 hour target as I'm preparing to leave to China in 4 days time. I'll try and g...

Tuesday, Feb 24

Simon Day
20 minutes

Tuesday, Feb 24

Rachel
30 minutes

Waichinese

Tuesday, Feb 24

Steven Neubauer

Stephane joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Feb 24

Stephane

Leaderboard

Linkhttp://www.hackingchinese.c...
Participants58
Hours reported91.34
DurationFebruary 10, 2015 to
February 28, 2015 (19 days)