I did 2 x Mandarin HQ Vault video listening exercises. Hearing people 'on the street' discuss their jobs introduced me to way more vocab than a textbook exercise about jobs

My 1 hour Chinese italki lesson exclusively focussed on listening practice. Found it very taxing, but very worthwhile.

I did 2 x Mandarin HQ Vault listening video exercises. Hearing actual Chinese people speaking in their usual manner (i.e. not like a textbook script recording) showed how different 'real life' listening is to standard listening exercises