Pronunciation challenge, December 2020

Mimicking and recording using youtube video the new Language Learning with Youtube extension is really helpful

Finally started pt. 2 of Legend of the White Snake. More and more I shifted my efforts from Chinese Skills to Chinesepod. But Chinese Skills also has very interesting upgrades.

Reviewed You Tube's Li Tao's Chinese pronunciation Lessons 2-10 Lesson 2: b p mf (6:16) Lesson 3: d t n l (10:05) Lesson 4: s c r (6:48) Lesson 5: sh ch zh r (7:04) Lesson 6: x q j (9:31) Les...

Mimicking flashcard recordings

Doing the same.

Used skritter to work on tones and pronunciation.

Just spent some time recording myself and listening, trying to make my pronunciation better.

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I had time today to go back over lessons in Bluebird and a lesson from LiTao on YouTube. It was a long review, but like I said, I had the time today :) Bluebird - Category: Computing Lesson 2 (...

Used the HSK 4 dialogues (Week 1, Lesson 5) from my online class to practice pronunciation.

Chinesepod lessons and youtube mimicking and recording. I finally found someone on youtube that I would like to mimic because I like the way she talks, also still learning to recite 《蜀相》by 杜甫

Reading aloud during my HSK 3.0 audit today. With 11,092 items to audit, it's nice to mix things up a bit and keep my brain focused to prevent errors. For two Focus Keeper sessions I would read the...

Short practice session of 《木蘭詩》during the kiddos nap time. Been tough to get proper study sessions in during the holidays, but glad to find a little time to keep the ball rolling on the challenge!

Reviewing Sunday + IPA Monday. Reviewed my vowels, I've heard -eng vs -ong so many times that I think I got to the point of departure again xD. Review the 四是四 poem as well. Sort of improved in spee...

practiced my most challenging initials by videos on youtube and hsk 3 list on mandarin mania with audio - saying words that have zh, ch, sh, r, x, q, j syllables in them. I needed practice with two...

Manda joined the challenge!

Still on Skritter and Pleco decks.

I practiced 1 + 4 tones by recording myself and listening to the playback. Then in the middle of the session I noticed that a candle had started to leak wax so I interrupted the session by cleaning...

Mimicking flashcard recordings

Mimicking flashcard recordings

tone pairs

Chinesepod lessons mimicking and recording and learning to recite 《蜀相》by 杜甫 it's about 諸葛亮 who happens to be my husband's hero