Participation
in Listening challenge, February 2017
12 minutes 0.2h 
Popup Chinese - Absolute Beginners
40 minutes 0.67h 
ChinesePod TV
60 minutes 1.0h 
opened.ru mandarin course
30 minutes 0.5h 
martial arts/fantasy -- very simple dialogue
70 minutes 1.17h 
drama
26 minutes 0.43h 
Udemy Mandarin lesson, beginner level -- useful
85 minutes 1.42h 
Mandarin film with English and Chinese subtitles -- worth doing even for beginners (not worth it without subtitles)
10 minutes 0.17h 
Popup Chinese--Absolute Beginners
18 minutes 0.3h 
Chinese Pod Pokemon Go
6 minutes 0.1h 
ChinesePod
12 minutes 0.2h 
Chinese Pod Tomb Sweeping Day
16 minutes 0.27h 
ChinesePod--Women's Day/Notable Women
16 minutes 0.27h 
Chinese Pod
30 minutes 0.5h 
historical fiction -- I caught some
17 minutes 0.28h 
Chinese Pod --some, all, not all (sports)
60 minutes 1.0h 
udemy chinese lessons 7
20 minutes 0.33h 
opened.ru Mandarin--a good start. Goal: To reach HSK 1
7 minutes 0.12h 
ChinesePod
90 minutes 1.5h 
Kung Fu action movie in dialect with English subtitles -- since we're counting everything. Not a very successful listening comprehension effort.
30 minutes 0.5h 
opened.ru Mandarin
7 minutes 0.12h 
MandarinMadeEZ How to say you don't understand in Chinese (very useful for me)
12 minutes 0.2h 
ChinesePod-beginners. A lot of English with little Chinese; maybe not worth the time.
7 minutes 0.12h 
Game of Thrones vocab_MandarinMadeEasy on YouTube
22 minutes 0.37h 
ChinesePod-Chinese slang/Taiwan
12 minutes 0.2h 
ChinesePod elementary -- comparisons
105 minutes 1.75h 
film--in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles. "End of Ming"
16 minutes 0.27h 
ChinesePod
13 minutes 0.22h 
Nihao Conversations -- suddenly got a lot more difficult. tones/characters/meaning; it's harder to distinguish one word from another.
14 minutes 0.23h 
ChinesePod
15 minutes 0.25h 
Chinese Pod
13 minutes 0.22h 
Chinese Pod
10 minutes 0.17h 
Popup Chinese -- still listening to Absolute Beginners
60 minutes 1.0h 
last half of yesterday's movie
40 minutes 0.67h 
Udemy Chinese
10 minutes 0.17h 
HSK Vocab Flash Cards -- YouTube
60 minutes 1.0h 
last night- half a film
30 minutes 0.5h 
Udemy Chinese
24 minutes 0.4h 
HSK practice audio, Level 1
14 minutes 0.23h 
Taking a Photo--Absolute Beginners--Popup Chinese (AWESOME SITE FOR AUDIO)
Office Pleasantries -- also for beginners but more difficult
11 minutes 0.18h 
"Happy New Year from ChinesePod!" The three-way dialogue was too difficult for me to understand much of the Chinese, but it did provide some phrases and use words I knew. Parts of the Chinese weren't translated, but some was. Of course, ChinesePod is always fun.
12 minutes 0.2h 
13 min ChinesePodTV -- How to Really Exaggerate
9 min. ""--How To Say You Did Something ASAP
20 minutes 0.33h 
Popup Chinese:  A Good Scrubbing (rather difficult but labelled "Absolute Beginners"--useful nonetheless)
ChinesePodTV--"No Bargaining!" --elementary, but worth repeating once you reach a higher level 
10 minutes 0.17h 
"Opinions and Suggestions" on ChinesePodTV
10 minutes 0.17h 
Popup Chinese: Adventures on WeChat. My first time using Popup: Great audio practice. Definitely will use it again.
6 minutes 0.1h 
Chinese Pod -- beginner-level video on time expressions. ("Time Word Tips"-- Part 1, shang/xia)
I need to listen to four videos of this kind every day to make my goal of 10 hours/month. Planning in progress..
| Challenge time progress: | |
|---|---|
| Goal progress: | 
| Score | 20.17 | 
|---|---|
| Rank | 8th | 
| Hours reported | 20.17 | 
| Goal | 20h | 
