Listening challenge, February 2018

Listening video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lr3bnLxEa0 This was really weird. A commercial for a TV channel that looks like Nicklelodeon with featuring a cell phone that is competing for foo...

Watched one of Diane Neuabauer's Chinese class clips on Youtube. Listened to a Chinese Learn Online podcast.

听故事、学中文

Watched more of "Back to 1989."

Today's listening video is entitled "Talking to a Cabbie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=R6hR0_-QOWo This one was fairly easy compared to the other videos I've been watching for t...

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. Li...

Today's listening video is formal introductions, produced by the BBC. I know all the words, but the pace is really fast. However, after several repeats, the dialogue seemed to be slower and bet...

I listened to Chinese Learn Online podcasts and a little bit of the "Back to 1989" show on Netflix.

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 ba...

I listened to a Chinese Learn Online podcast.

Today's video comprehension is the kids program Sesame Street segment on the mystery word, yu2 鱼. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=205&v=avN9KM2yrAE I should be able to get this, but I ...

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Chinese Pod, learning more basic words

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.

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Rewatched the beginning of "Back to 1989" (1989一念间) with my wife. I'm curious to see how this story unfolds.

Today's listening video is a Post-It commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAM2DyMMZs8. I can say all the words and understand the phrases, but when I listen to the real thing is still hard t...

I watched 10 to 15 minutes of five TV shows, trying to figure out which one I want to watch. (Back to 1989; Someone Like You; Love Me or Leave Me; Yes We Can; Be With You). I think I'm going with "...

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 fa...

Had a listen to a few new things: 听故事学中文、舌尖上的中国、cctv 学中文、相声、TCB "大学生素食运动改变中国人饮食习惯"、LP A&B。

Today's listening video is "Do you think your girlfriend is pretty?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=-_ohIe6xThE Although this was basically only two questions, "do you think your...

Turns out i've really lost my tolerance for 非诚勿扰 in the couple of years since I last looked :-/ Tried a bit of 大紅燈籠高高掛 but too many moody silences to rack up listening minutes :-D I'll come back t...

SBS mandarin podcast on the way to work, minimal listening at work (more speaking/explaining), but some good eavesdropping!