Listening challenge, February 2018

Chinese Learn Online, Part of movie "This is Not What I Expected", and some random YouTube Videos.

Video 1 - "What's your Name?" pretty easy, but there is still a disconnect between exactly what is said and the meaning in my brain. I can't hear every word, but I know what they are saying. Hmmmm...

Learn in Your Car: Mandarin Chinese; listened to several lessons, working on using it more in real life with friends

Chinese Learning Online. level 4 lesson 183 and all activities. Conversation language. Strengthens my listening because although I can understand 90%, I have to maintain concentration for 7 mi...

Popup Chinese: one elementary, one intermediate. Short dialogues but very fast and natural

I listened to some Chinese Learn Online.

New Practical Chinese Reader video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=277&v=7CGg2iqyPjQ Talking about school. Lots of shadowing to hear every word.

Diane Neubauer Video on Youtube and parts of some random Netflix shows trying to find something that catches my interest.

This video is from the New Practical Chinese Reader series. Getting to know professors and students at school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=FMSV71VTGsI Can understand almost eve...

Victor joined the challenge!

Chinese Learn Online level 4 lesson 182, did all activities which also help with speaking

Videos from Diane Neubauer on YouTube. Great beginner material.

This is a dialogue from the New Practical Reader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=319&v=R6hR0_-QOWo When I first listened to it without the text, I did not realize that the two people w...

Videos from Diane Neubauer and Shianguu Hsieh on YouTube. And some "Back to 1989" on Netflix.

Chinese Learn Online level 4, lesson 181. Listened again. Checked with transcript and translation. Surprised how much I had missed. This is a very comprehensive website for learning and reinforci...

Another BBC video on ordering at a tea house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=286&v=KoFqEpZ4DBs Easy to understand, but uses some new expressions for ordering.

Ha! I've cracked the Convo Group format - 1st hour mostly 中文 2nd hour 英文。Lots of good chat, 但是我挣扎着听到 - 我的耳背…

Learn in Your Car: Mandarin Chinese

Listened again to a uni of iowa intermediate audio. Got it this time. Experimented with lower levels 3 and 4 of Chinese Learning Online. Level 3 has a lot of English but useful vocabulary. Level...

I finished 大鱼海棠. Beautiful movie. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/GdOPTtZXs4I

This is a BBC video on ordering drinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=466&v=KoFqEpZ4DBs. Really simple, but drinks I never heard of before.

watched old documenotary about tea trading in Zhejiang, Anxi etc. English narration, but the untranslated chatter of growers, traders, merchants in markets and villages of 1990s China was Pure Gold.

work, some phone calls and in-person (incl. eavesdropping) 听故事学中文。

News clips from SBS. Fast, but scooped up some good new vocab.

Chinese Learn Online CLO: level 5 first lesson. Could understand 80% but couldn't keep concentration for full 6 minutes. Will try level 4 next to build listening skills from vocab that I know.