Listening challenge, August 2017

慢速中文 - 1、书法 2、巧克力

SBS 播客 - GPs role in antibiotic resistance

Slow-Chinese

Popup Chinese 2 more lessons. I learned a few new words

鬼吹灯

Listened to 北京，北京 narrated by 丢丢 on 阅读FM. First, I listened without the transcript, then with it, and once more without it to try to retain new vocabulary. This worked quite well.

Listened to the story 醒来觉得甚是爱你 from 宁二 on 阅读FM several times and learned new vocabulary

Watched with subtitles two videos of this cool guy (though it's in Taiwanese): 台客劇場 TKstory

Du Chinese article

vocabulary

music

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

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' lis...

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

Nicholas Lyall joined the challenge!

30 min. listened to sentences and identified the missing tones. 30 min. watched 快乐汉语.. 15 min. music... ChinesePod & textbook dialogues.

Nancy joined the challenge!

Chinesepod

More Popup Chinese, two podcasts

Skype with former Chinese roommate

popup Chinese the first 3 elementary podcasts

30 minutes yesterday listening to 冬吴相对论 and 10 minutes imandarinpod. 20 minutes again of 冬吴相对论 today

Mona badr joined the challenge!