Participation
in Listening challenge, February 2018
60 minutes 1.0h
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 minutes which I find hard.
30 minutes 0.5h
Popup Chinese: one elementary, one intermediate. Short dialogues but very fast and natural
40 minutes 0.67h
Chinese Learn Online level 4 lesson 182, did all activities which also help with speaking
40 minutes 0.67h
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 reinforcing what you have learned. www.chineselearnonline.com
40 minutes 0.67h
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 4 has very little English and suits me.
30 minutes 0.5h
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.
45 minutes 0.75h
https://collections.uiowa.edu/chinese/0_intermediate/intermediate_unit01.html Simple topic, clearly spoken. But a good variety of vocabulary. I needed to guess the meaning of some phrases. Listened several times until I could understand 90%. This is a good level for me so will try this site again.
60 minutes 1.0h
Fluentu: watched 2 videos without reading subtitles. Too fast for me. Couldn't hear many words. When I read the text some sentences were easy and I should have been able to hear them. So I went back to a song clip I had looked at before and sang along. Will try more songs in future.
60 minutes 1.0h
slow chinese: 157 版权问题. Interesting topic although could only understand the main idea at first. Very useful phrases to learn so I will review this several times.
20 minutes 0.33h
popup chinese: intermediate Slacking Off. I love popup chinese for learning authentic language. It helps with listening for detail and also it's good to practice listening to short bursts of fast speech.
30 minutes 0.5h
Fluentu: review vocabulary. To make this a listening exercise I listen to the clips with my eyes closed before I do the vocab test. For me this is much harder than reading the sentence and guessing the word.
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Goal progress: |
Score | 7.59 |
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Rank | 1st |
Hours reported | 7.59 |
Goal | 7h |