Pronunciation challenge, December 2020
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Tessa Hall
Spent a solid four Focus Keeper sessions working my way through 《望天門山》,《月下獨酌》,《木蘭詩》, and 《都挺好的》and then recorded a recap video of it all and a little bit about my process during the challenge. I'm ...
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Amity Claggett
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Michael F.
What a year... I got sick with a respiratory bug this month (not SARS-CoV-2, fortunately) and couldn't muster the breath to do any good pronunciation practice for a while. Today I felt recovered en...
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Michael F.
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Sarah莎芮
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Kaynis
A 60-minute chat with my friend who just finished her quarantining on her return to China. The focus wasn't really pronunciation, but I suppose I was clear enough in communicating my ideas to her. ...
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Esther
Adam joined the challenge!
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Adam
AvenueX (YouTube) - 23 Consonants (13:56) - Vowels (11:48) - Tones (20:11) Listening and repeating consonants and vowels after the speaker. Paying attention to how the speaker pronounces the l...
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Tessa Hall
Done but not finished yet as........ Moving on to my New Year Resolution! https://challenges.hackingchinese.com/challenges/83-listening-challenge-january-2021
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Kaynis
Recorded a video. I had to listen to it, and noted where I made pronunciation mistakes (somehow always easier to hear when listening over instead of in the moment. This morning, I shadowed some ...
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Esther
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Amy Blake
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Sarah莎芮
For my last session this challenge, I decided to compare my pronunciation of chu and qu (various tones, though I mostly focused on pronouncing the word 出去). I noticed that I tend to pronounce 'chu'...
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Sara K.
Shadowing YouTube videos for 《都挺好的》and 《木兰诗》. Feeling much more confident with both the poem and the song. Still not KTV or stage ready, but I look forward to further perfecting my "performance" on...
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Go through secondary vowels on mimic method and mimic the drills, Go through first Pimsleur lesson
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Henrik
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Kaynis
More practice recording myself saying whatever phrase caught my fancy and listening to the recordings and re-recording myself to make my pronunciation sound better.
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Sara K.
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Sarah莎芮
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Link | https://www.hackingchinese.... |
Participants | 129 |
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Hours reported | 265.14 |
Duration | December 10, 2020 to December 31, 2020 (22 days) |