Benchmarking challenge, June 2016
Recent activities
Chatting in Mandarin helps in getting practice on the Mandarin Traditional and Simplify keyboard
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朱迪思
Practicing with a Native Chinese is helping me find my flaws in pronunciation but as well as improve.
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朱迪思
I am starting to understand more when I listen to Music or watch a Chinese movie. I find myself hearing radicals that I practice. SO I somewhat know what they are talking about.
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朱迪思
I notice that my handwriting is improving every time I practice writing sentences.
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朱迪思
Sometimes I feel like I am not learning much, but whenever I go over the material I see I remember the radicals or sentences. Yesterday, I did the basics, anki, and practice the vowels and consonants.
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朱迪思
Translation (Chinese-German) with guidance/scaffolding provided by Chinese native speaker under occasional use of dictionary. Text regarded as hard and previously unknown. No time limit - aim is be...
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Richard Wolff
Another ToneBingo-Session, as the previous session was unrevealing. Clear results this time: 2nd has major issues, 5th tone has minor issues. All others are fine.
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Richard Wolff
I spent 30 minutes chatting in Mandarin and the other 60 minutes talking basic Mandarin words.
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朱迪思
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朱迪思
Writing about movie preferences in Chinese on Chinesepod.com. I use pin and paper. Then I spent the other fifteen on skriter writing Mandarin characters.
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朱迪思
I listen to a different Mandarin station which was 97.2 Caldecott Hill Estate, Singapore
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朱迪思
I went back over the lessons I did yesterday an spent around 15 mins. Then I continue my learning by practicing Chinese consonants, vowels, and the tones. I think once I practicing lessons helped w...
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朱迪思
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朱迪思
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朱迪思
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朱迪思
Listening - I listen to Yes 933 radio station for Chinese songs and I watch 怒江之战 第01集 on film.qq.com
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朱迪思
I spent 15 minutes writing on paper Chinese sentences, and the other 15 writing on skritter.
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朱迪思
Basic Chinese - I spent time going through Anki Cards, then I went and did how to introduce yourself on chinesepod.com.
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朱迪思
朱迪思 joined the challenge!
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朱迪思
Stacey joined the challenge!
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Stacey
Jessica Chapman joined the challenge!
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Jessica Chapman
Henk Dalmolen joined the challenge!
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Henk Dalmolen
Did an isolated listening test of singular words spoken in Chinese; scored very well
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Richard Wolff
Played the pronunciation game with a Chinese Native Speaker. Results unclear and showed minor-major deficiency with all tones, particularly 5th.
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Richard Wolff
Tess joined the challenge!
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Tess
Leaderboard
Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
1. | ![]() | 朱迪思 | 12.17 | |
2. | ![]() | Richard Wolff | 6.0 |
Link | http://www.hackingchinese.c... |
Participants | 16 |
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Hours reported | 18.17 |
Duration | June 10, 2016 to June 30, 2016 (21 days) |