Mimicking challenge, November 2016

Choose an audio recording of a native speaker and try to reproduce an exact copy of what what the person says and how he or she does it, including pronunciation, pacing, intonation and so on. Read the attached article for more information.


Recent activities

Alejo joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Nov 30

Alejo
30 minutes

Wednesday, Nov 30

Dion
25 minutes

Same 2 sentences

Wednesday, Nov 30

naphta
4800 minutes

Tuesday, Nov 29

Hermes Belmont
45 minutes

A few sentences from a speaking class dialogue

Tuesday, Nov 29

Dion
15 minutes

Two sentences

Tuesday, Nov 29

naphta
100 minutes

Listened and dictated a dialogue, then mimicked.

Monday, Nov 28

Dion
20 minutes

2 sentences

Monday, Nov 28

naphta
60 minutes

听到了中文播客,练习模仿用那门的对话。

Sunday, Nov 27

Dion
15 minutes

2 sentences

Friday, Nov 25

naphta
35 minutes

Mimicking dialogue

Thursday, Nov 24

Dion
15 minutes

I mimicked only the new sentence I introduced yesterday.

Thursday, Nov 24

naphta
75 minutes

跟昨天的练习一样

Wednesday, Nov 23

Dion
40 minutes

4 Gloss sentences, two of them pretty well, and started mimicking a 2 seconds sentence from a video "我會找他們因爲他們會的那些東西比我厲害"

Wednesday, Nov 23

naphta
5 minutes

Tuesday, Nov 22

杜雁子
85 minutes

先我听到一个对话,再我听写这些句子,最后我用Audacity录音我的模仿练习。虽然我觉得进步不快,但我提高。

Tuesday, Nov 22

Dion

almather@alma-ltd.co.uk joined the challenge!

Sunday, Nov 20

almather@alma-ltd.co.uk
15 minutes

Mimicked two Glossika sentences, slight improvements on some details.

Sunday, Nov 20

naphta
25 minutes

Mimicked the same 4 Glossika sentences

Saturday, Nov 19

naphta
40 minutes

Mimicked part of a recorded dialogue. Had to slow it down to understand and be able to replicate the sounds, but after a while I felt I got the rhythm and tones correct, and eventually produced som...

Friday, Nov 18

Dion
40 minutes

Mimicked 4 Glossika sentences; slight improvement in some of them, still far from perfection.

Friday, Nov 18

naphta
50 minutes

listened to and dictated another recorded lesson, followed by some mimicking

Friday, Nov 18

Dion
20 minutes

Mix of dramas and music. It's hard to stick to one medium to listen to so having a mix helps me stay motivated. Recorded myself for the music part, this helped since I actually caught some parts wh...

Friday, Nov 18

Jazzie
20 minutes

Still working on the first two Glossika sentences.

Thursday, Nov 17

naphta

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Hermes Belmont92.0100%
2.Dion 10.17101%
3.naphta5.1786%
4.pon000500.8817%
5.Jazzie0.6622%
6.杜雁子0.4120%
7.LuX0.335%
Linkhttp://www.hackingchinese.c...
Participants22
Hours reported109.62
DurationNovember 11, 2016 to
November 30, 2016 (20 days)