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

60 minutes

Did listening/transcription exercises - spent too much time thinking about how to write instead of listening 9_9

Monday, Oct 13

Daniel G
50 minutes

Chinesepod

Monday, Oct 13

Rebecca McKay
71 minutes

ChinesePod ,如果没有你,谁生活嘚更美好

Monday, Oct 13

Steven Neubauer
15 minutes

Slow Chinese

Monday, Oct 13

Birgit
10 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Nathanael T. Booth
60 minutes

Textbook audio

Monday, Oct 13

Michele
95 minutes

Music Podcasts

Monday, Oct 13

Michele
20 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Sharon
30 minutes

Listening to Chinese hymns and to the Gospel of Matthew chapters 1-5. This went very well as I'm familiar with these chapters in the English Bible already.

Monday, Oct 13

Nathan Gearhart
120 minutes

I attended a Chinese church service involving singing, preaching, testimonies and conversation afterwards. There were moments of complete understanding, but much of the time was spent looking up ne...

Monday, Oct 13

Nathan Gearhart
45 minutes

Listened to a sermon recording. There was a ton of vocabulary I didn't know, but I followed the basic point of the talk because I was already familiar with the material in English.

Monday, Oct 13

Nathan Gearhart
30 minutes

我们都是坏孩子

Monday, Oct 13

JustinJ
60 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Nathanael T. Booth
60 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Nathanael T. Booth
90 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Nathanael T. Booth
10 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

艾吉玛
74 minutes

Finished 画壁. I would recommend this to people new to watching movies without subtitles because the dialogue is simple and the speech is clear. Easier than the 画皮 movies.

Monday, Oct 13

JustinJ
15 minutes

Slow Chinese

Monday, Oct 13

Birgit
70 minutes

Skeptoid

Monday, Oct 13

Olle Linge
10 minutes

Anki flashcards

Monday, Oct 13

Zach Danz
20 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

艾吉玛
20 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Richard Perry
10 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

艾吉玛

Per K joined the challenge!

Monday, Oct 13

Per K
90 minutes

Monday, Oct 13

Michael Knight

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)