Pronunciation challenge, December 2020

I reviewed all of the dialogues I have studied since starting this challenge.

More spoonfed mimicking. I if I can keep up with this for a few months I wonder what the results will be. Also, read out loud two Chinese For Us HSK 3 stories. Reading out loud is far more difficul...

Writing

Anki HSK 4 cards. Review vocab and pronunciation. At the same time, I used my phone to record the pronunciation; after every word, I improvised some sentences using that word and, if possible, comb...

Bluebird Category: Buildings/ Components (34:08 min) Lesson 1 Practice repeating pronunciation after the speaker and new word repetition. Quiz for listening comprehension and multiple choice. Lear...

practicing initials and finals using an Anki deck w/audio I downloaded. Mimicking

JinChangAn joined the challenge!

I recorded an episode for the Hacking Chinese podcast about pronunciation, which seems legitimate to count here. I recorded it twice, hence the time. I did not count editing, upload and anything el...

Tone drilling Wednesday, I went through the whole basic set of Sinosplice's chart (great resource). The session focussed on reviewing my own spectogram through Praat and seeing how a native's spect...

Finishing the Domino Chinese Pronunciation videos.

Continued working on 《月下獨酌》today and spent most of my time mimicking and shadowing additional sources of YouTube.

I recorded myself, and learned that my tones are worse when I speak full sentences at conversational speed than when I am doing tone pair exercises in isolation.

Mimicking recording during flashcard reviews

Tough night. Kinda low motivation, but I still powered through learning some new vocab in Mango Languages, spending extra time on the pronunciation, natch. Next, I completed all the tone exercises ...

Learning with Li Tao (youtube) Lesson 6 ' x q j' pronunciation and words. (9:31 minutes) Lesson 7 'ao ai ou ei ie ia ua ue(u with two dots) pronunciation and words

Read another short dialogue on Du Chinese and used the same method as the other days.

finish DCP volume 1, lesson 1

Went over my new anki sentences this morning and then practiced older ones in the car on MP3. If you don't want spend a lot of money on glossika I highly recommend getting the spoonfed Chinese deck...

IPA Tuesday. Pratice finals + many syllables through the Chinese Wiki interactive chart. Seems there a lot of disagreement over "e / ㄜ". One chart I've found proposes /ɤə/ and other proposes /ɯ̯ʌ/....

DCP, volume 1, lessons 6 and 7