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

Daniel G

Rebecca McKay

Steven Neubauer

Birgit

Nathanael T. Booth

Michele

Michele

Sharon
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.

Nathan Gearhart
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...

Nathan Gearhart
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.

Nathan Gearhart

JustinJ

Nathanael T. Booth

Nathanael T. Booth

Nathanael T. Booth

艾吉玛
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.

JustinJ

Birgit

Olle Linge

Zach Danz

艾吉玛

Richard Perry

艾吉玛
Per K joined the challenge!

Per K

Michael Knight
Leaderboard
Link | http://www.hackingchinese.c... |
Participants | 138 |
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Hours reported | 867.37 |
Duration | October 10, 2014 to October 31, 2014 (22 days) |