Pronunciation challenge, February 2015
Recent activities
More work on basic sounds.. aspirated vs. unaspirate, retroflex, etc, going through pinyin charts sound by sound. Also did some HSK sentences on WaiChinese.
James
Rachel
Waichinese: worked on 5 sentences with a lot of j-, q-, ch-, that are particularly difficult for me to pronounce. Glossika Flyency: 50 sentences.
naphta
Michele
Mimicking phrases from the audio of my textbook. I hadn't done this much before the challenge - I'm not sure why - but I suspect that it is also helpful for remembering the tones.
Daniel G
Marina
Steven Neubauer
Spent time going over the basics on Yabla, working in particular on my Qu, Xu, Qi, Ji, Zhi, and Chi. Did some recap on WaiChinese.
James
Sara Jaaksola joined the challenge!
Sara Jaaksola
Mimicking speech on Wai Chinese. According to the teacher there, my pronunciation is pretty good, but when I compare it with the native speakers, my speech sounds terribly Western. In fact, I am ...
Daniel G
Rachel
Waichinese: around 10 resubmissions and 10 new submissions. Glossika Fluency: 50 sentences.
naphta
Rachel
Waichinise: a few re-submissions and some new submissions. Glossika fluency: 50 sentences.
naphta
Steven Neubauer
jblinguaphile
电猫
James
Wilson Guo joined the challenge!
Wilson Guo
Manuela
电猫
James
Steven Neubauer
Marina
Wilson Ling joined the challenge!
Wilson Ling
Leaderboard
Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
1. | naphta | 10.75 | ||
2. | James | 10.15 | ||
3. | Shannon | 9.66 | ||
4. | Steven Neubauer | 9.5 | ||
5. | Marina | 6.25 | ||
6. | Rachel | 6.08 | ||
7. | Simon Day | 5.91 | ||
8. | Michele | 4.64 | ||
9. | Nina | 3.92 | ||
10. | Daniel G | 3.25 | ||
11. | Boris | 2.43 | ||
12. | Jeremy | 2.33 | ||
13. | kizZa | 1.59 | ||
14. | 电猫 | 1.47 | ||
15. | Elena | 1.42 | ||
16. | Cher | 1.42 | ||
17. | Shawn | 1.34 | ||
18. | jblinguaphile | 1.26 | ||
19. | Sara Jaaksola | 1.25 | ||
20. | Bill Price | 1.25 | ||
21. | Manuela | 1.21 | ||
22. | Olle Linge | 1.0 | ||
23. | Rouslan Solomakhin | 0.9 | ||
24. | Erik | 0.5 | ||
25. | Tameter Onictof | 0.5 | ||
26. | Mon | 0.5 | ||
27. | Michelle | 0.44 | ||
28. | Iwona | 0.25 | ||
29. | piper21 | 0.17 |
Link | http://www.hackingchinese.c... |
Participants | 58 |
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Hours reported | 91.34 |
Duration | February 10, 2015 to February 28, 2015 (19 days) |