Extensive listening challenge, October 2014

Extensive listening is one of the most important activities when learning a foreign language. In this sense, extensive means that you should listen as much as possible, covering as much material as you can, rather than digging deep into each audio clip. Try to listen to Chinese at or below your level and try to listen a lot! Read the article that will be published on Thursday for more information and inspiration.


Recent activities

30 minutes

same as yesterday

Tuesday, Oct 21

Daniel G
1 minutes

Popup Chinese: Elementary: An Evening at the Rock and Roll Club

Tuesday, Oct 21

jblinguaphile
30 minutes

Tuesday, Oct 21

Oscar Bror Sjöberg
39 minutes

Slow Chinese

Tuesday, Oct 21

Richard Perry
62 minutes

Assimil

Tuesday, Oct 21

Richard Perry
120 minutes

Tuesday, Oct 21

Nathanael T. Booth
28 minutes

冥想练习

Tuesday, Oct 21

JustinJ
40 minutes

华闻大直播 香

Tuesday, Oct 21

JustinJ
15 minutes

Listening with popupchinese.com

Tuesday, Oct 21

Zach Danz
45 minutes

中文课

Tuesday, Oct 21

Zach Danz
91 minutes

周渔的火车

Tuesday, Oct 21

JustinJ
20 minutes

radio story

Tuesday, Oct 21

Birgit
20 minutes

Slow Chinese

Tuesday, Oct 21

Birgit
90 minutes

电视剧

Tuesday, Oct 21

Birgit
30 minutes

Textbook audio

Tuesday, Oct 21

Michele
100 minutes

Podcast Tv show yang yang Music

Tuesday, Oct 21

Michele
45 minutes

锵锵三人行 + Chinesepod Dialogues

Tuesday, Oct 21

confusedlaowai
12 minutes

podcast on the way - advanced chinesepod on raising insects

Tuesday, Oct 21

Julien
10 minutes

CCTV: Growing up with Chinese, Episode 99 [15min, less intro and scattered English] (This was really good for my current level! Easy enough to understand a lot, subtitles to help follow along,...

Tuesday, Oct 21

jblinguaphile
4 minutes

Youtube: FluentU: "Facing the Ladies" and "How are you so busy?"

Tuesday, Oct 21

jblinguaphile
18 minutes

justlearnchinese: chinese-readings-a-real-mystery-story-in-lop-nur-失踪-missing-elmentary (listening a second time, this time without stopping to consult dictionaries, except to remind myself of wo...

Tuesday, Oct 21

jblinguaphile
30 minutes

Music

Tuesday, Oct 21

Michele
30 minutes

Music

Tuesday, Oct 21

Michele
30 minutes

Music

Tuesday, Oct 21

Michele
22 minutes

justlearnchinese: a-real-mystery-story-in-lop-nur--elementary (I did this as a relatively intense listening exercise, making sure I understood each sentence before proceeding.)

Tuesday, Oct 21

jblinguaphile

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.龙思文66.0394%
2.JustinJ59.44237%
3.Birgit43.98109%
4.Michele35.3888%
5.Nathanael T. Booth32.17103%
6.Rob Flye28.59142%
7.Leigh27.0108%
8.Steven Neubauer25.94123%
9.Olle Linge23.8395%
10.杜雁子21.72181%
11.李巧儿21.24106%
12.艾吉玛21.06100%
13.Richard Perry20.51102%
14.Nathan Gearhart20.481%
15.Adam D20.25135%
16.Rebecca McKay20.1100%
17.Adam Stout20.0874%
18.Sharon18.21101%
19.RC_RomiCi17.5870%
20.Anton Gustafsson 17.4187%
21.Trevor16.053%
22.Oscar Bror Sjöberg15.4277%
23.MadsLNygaard15.2476%
24.jblinguaphile15.04100%
25.Daniel G15.075%
26.Joshua B15.075%
27.Zach Danz12.14101%
28.Rachel12.02100%
29.Nancy Wang12.075%
30.Xu Jing11.38126%
31.Elizabeth Braun10.9109%
32.Michael Knight10.7571%
33.Jay Han10.7563%
34.Julien10.24102%
35.Ni Ke9.67120%
36.Braden (Wei Long)9.191%
37.Brendan7.3814%
38.Mei Chun Hai7.2772%
39.Jeremy7.2660%
40.ikfo7.2236%
41.confusedlaowai6.0860%
42.Per K6.015%
43.Justin5.4336%
44.Betty5.1951%
45.Jonny4.6723%
46.Annette Jordan24.013%
47.Mel3.8424%
48.陳凱3.7525%
49.Jacqueline Rodgers3.3713%
50.Ewa Szkudelska3.3333%
51.Lili Woodlight3.0220%
52.Peter Bradshaw3.010%
53.Imps10112.9811%
54.David Walschots2.9241%
55.Tim Cinel2.9129%
56.pk2.06%
57.Mari1.8518%
58.Simon Bonnard1.833%
59.Piotr1.610%
60.federicosmanio31.537%
61.Tyree1.04%
62.jgodfrey0.985%
63.Zoe Xiaolu Du0.676%
64.Captain0.562%
65.Georges0.53%
66.Alessandro Comandini0.510%
67.kaicarver0.55%
68.Manuela0.454%
69.HackingChinese0.422%
70.Kevin Bullaughey0.4214%
71.Scarlett Höppner0.336%
72.Paul Savala0.251%
73.mycheesestrings20.252%
74.Mila0.2512%
75.Touchstone0.171%
76.carignanboy0.155%
Linkhttp://www.hackingchinese.c...
Participants138
Hours reported867.37
DurationOctober 10, 2014 to
October 31, 2014 (22 days)