Listening challenge, February 2017

Listened to Phoenix TV news.

中国相声榜播客：45 minutes 奇葩养生说播客：12 minutes 奇葩说：60 minutes Understood most of 奇葩说, 相声 was very challenging but still understood enough to laugh at a few bits.

Listening to 2 episodes from Melnyks

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Chinese pod lesson house hunting. Learned new sentence structure shi he wo men (suitable for us); The opposite he shi is an adjective (this is suitable).

imandarinpod, lunyu

Chinesepod intermediate lesson. Thant went well. Continued watching a Chinese soap opera called 欢乐颂. I get the gist of it but it uses many expressions I don't know.

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 l...

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Beeline 8-1 Pt. 1 "Tell me your plans" 11 min TTMIK L2L4 And, with 19 min

Three chinese pod episodes. Had a lot of fun learning about how Chinese people introduce themselves and their names by describing the characters in their name

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讲讲三人行

I borrowed an audio book from my local library and listened to many new phrases to train my ears. It was great.

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30 minutes of 中国文艺 on CCTV 4, 25 minutes of 非常纪录 podcast, 32 minutes of 大飞史话 podcast, 5 minutes of 奇葩养生说 podcast. Generally a little too advanced for me, but still understood big chunks.

Skeptoid Chinese

鏘鏘三人行

Tone recognition practice. Better than expected.

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