reviewing how the initial changes the vowel

tones review and practice

more mimicking

found a video that had lovely pronunciation - mimicking

today listening and trying chou zhou then jiu. then contrast shou - how third tone changes the vowel sound to a dipthong. also xi qi ji and note the vowel change with si - Pinyin!!!

I have devoted quite some time today to trying the voice recognition on picking whether I am saying 传人 or 全人. I had a very low success rate

using voice recognition and speech examples to practice mimicking

shang, xiang, sheng practice in all the tones - 祝大家圣诞节快乐！

at the gallery with my friend from Wuhan - always good sh / s & l / n listening practice

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jiu / zhou in all the tones and listening in rapid speech

made a note of all the tones I was unsure of in conversation and checked them later

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work related

review tones on work related words. I am sure my brain is Teflon coated :(

listening for and mimicking tone changes in natural sentences

listening and practicing jiang / zhang / zheng in each of the tones - these are ones I can miss in natural speech

Lured my conversation partner into making me another set of work related recordings - her accent is perfect.

中文角 - sliding my mimicking practice into conversations in the guise of “mirroring” which socially just seems like attentive listening skills. Sneaky!

as for yesterday

A helpful patient at work corrected my pronunciation of 收据 so that kickstarted me on revising and mimicking some work-related words