Chinese speaking challenge, September 2025

Focus on improving your speaking ability, including fluency, pronunciation and much more. See the challenge article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

60 minutes

Long talk with my parents in law. 9.30

Wednesday, Oct 01

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

shadowing short drama scenes

Tuesday, Sep 30

Funmi
30 minutes

Tuesday, Sep 30

MaKo
25 minutes

Mimicking textbook dialogues

Tuesday, Sep 30

Metellus
45 minutes

Almost done

Tuesday, Sep 30

Cliff Larsen
25 minutes

Mimicking and shadowing textbook dialogues

Monday, Sep 29

Metellus
30 minutes

shadowing dialogue

Monday, Sep 29

Funmi
30 minutes

At church and talking with parents in law

Monday, Sep 29

Cliff Larsen
20 minutes

Mimicking HSK 3 textbook dialogues

Sunday, Sep 28

Metellus
60 minutes

One to one lesson

Sunday, Sep 28

Metellus
90 minutes

Took my parents in law out to tag sales, long discussions with my brother in law. Stuff like that.

Sunday, Sep 28

Cliff Larsen
40 minutes

shadowing and self introduction

Saturday, Sep 27

Funmi

nana joined the challenge!

Saturday, Sep 27

nana
25 minutes

Mimicking sentences from shuoshuochinese on youtube

Saturday, Sep 27

Metellus
60 minutes

Long car ride filled with Chinese people.

Saturday, Sep 27

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

lunchtime shadowing practice. also keep reviewing during the day the days before but not tracking well but the dialogues are short enough to remember the next day. This does feel like I am actively...

Friday, Sep 26

Funmi
30 minutes

Shadowing lesson sentences with anki

Friday, Sep 26

Metellus
40 minutes

shadowing two Chinesepod dialogue one was too short so I did and extra one. Will try and find some time later to practice more.

Thursday, Sep 25

Funmi
60 minutes

Tons today

Thursday, Sep 25

Cliff Larsen
30 minutes

another 30 mins practicing shadowing same dialogue from the morning

Wednesday, Sep 24

Funmi
15 minutes

Wednesday, Sep 24

MaKo
30 minutes

In one-on-one class

Wednesday, Sep 24

MaKo
30 minutes

Wednesday, Sep 24

MaKo
55 minutes

9.23 recorded in the afternoon and morning and read outloud for 10 minutes straight in class!

Wednesday, Sep 24

Cliff Larsen
50 minutes

Chinesepod dialogue chong will help with my shao pronunciation not ending up as xiao.

Wednesday, Sep 24

Funmi

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen14.28102%
2.Metellus9.9299%
3.Funmi4.6746%
4.MaKo3.8347%
5.Ella0.256%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants17
Hours reported32.95
DurationSeptember 10, 2025 to
September 30, 2025 (21 days)