Pronunciation challenge, December 2020

Practiced with Du Chinese.

Bluebird - Category: Computing (39:05) Lesson 1 Repeating after speaker, paying attention to pronunciation and tones Quiz after lesson.

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!!!

Ditto... Same task.

Finally started pt. 2 seems some kind easier

ukaudwal joined the challenge!

I noticed that sometimes when I say a 1 + 4 tone word it turns into something more like a 1 + 1 tone pair. To make it more fun to record and listen to myself, I tried to speak Chinese with a Britis...

AllSet B1 tough sounds

Joelle Godfrey joined the challenge!

Deep dive into 《木蘭詩》today. I listened and mimicked the poem on YouTube about 10 times and then went line by line into poem at a slow speed making sure all my tones and pronunciation is 100% accurat...

Tone pairs B1

Mimicking Saturday gone wrong. Actually did more reading aloud, continued reading the Escape! game + worked on a tongue twister, the 四是四 one, although I hadn't planned any for this challenge. I c...

Review Bluebird Category: Comparisons Lesson 1 (33:25) Lesson 2 (33:40) Repeating after the speaker and pronunciation.

Practiced pronunciation using Du Chinese.

worked on tone pairs with neutral tone - reading about it a little, and then mimicking from mandarin mania. I tried to mimic words that had my difficult initials in them too (zh, ch, sh, r, j, q, x...

Yesterday I only had a quick pronunciation practice using Du Chinese.

Bluebird- Category: Comparisons Lesson 3. Repeating after the speaker and pronunciation. Quiz

Still going through my Skritter, Pleco, Phonetics Dictionary compilations.

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

Busy family day, but I did manage to sneak in 15 minutes of some 《木兰诗》practice in the evening

more practice recording myself saying whatever words or phrases come to mind. I discovered that I say 三藩市 Cantonese style, probably because local announcements are in Cantonese not Mandarin (btw th...

Mimicking flashcard recordings

Hacking Chinese tones

mimicking and recording Chinesepod lessons