Pronunciation challenge, December 2020

This is a challenge where your goal is to improve your Chinese pronunciation. Please read the linked article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

67 minutes

Tone drilling Wednesday. Practised tones from sinosplice exercises for about 40 minutes, then kept practising 月下獨酌. Used voice recognition to test tones, got 17/20 recognized by it, main problem be...

Thursday, Dec 24

quack 嘎本
25 minutes

same as last. did sections 4 and 5

Thursday, Dec 24

Swimmingcat59
40 minutes

mimicking and recording Chinesepod lessons plus learning to recite 《月下獨酌》by 李白。 This poem is very hard for me to recite for some reason -___-' so tomorrow will do it again until I can do it semi d...

Wednesday, Dec 23

Amy Blake
15 minutes

Listened to and mimicked a dialogue on Du Chinese a couple times.

Wednesday, Dec 23

Sarah莎芮
20 minutes

Ditto....

Wednesday, Dec 23

Kaynis
60 minutes

Spoonfed Chinese and read four NPCR dialogues outload.

Wednesday, Dec 23

文佰川
43 minutes

A long conversation with my language partner. She corrected any major pronunciation issues incl. 兵人 for 病人 (捂脸)

Wednesday, Dec 23

Esther
50 minutes

Today I decided to go a little unconventional with my pronunciation practice and work on a (future… maybe) KTV song I’ve been trying to learn for a while—《都挺好的》—江靜 Jiang Jing feat. 張震嶽 Ayal Komod. ...

Wednesday, Dec 23

gaojian_studygram
10 minutes

Mimicking flashcard recordings

Wednesday, Dec 23

Pavel
15 minutes

To try to change my attitude, instead of complaining about how boring pronunciation practice is, I instead recorded myself saying in Mandarin that pronunciation is really interesting. Then I listen...

Wednesday, Dec 23

Sara K.
70 minutes

AllSet B1 tone pairs; Glossika mirroring.

Wednesday, Dec 23

Kevin Lee
20 minutes

I reviewed some dialogues from the previous days.

Wednesday, Dec 23

Sarah莎芮
30 minutes

First listening du Chinese story, then parrot it and then read it out loud focusing on the pronunciation.

Wednesday, Dec 23

Adiel
23 minutes

Bluebird-Category: Colors(23:01) Pronunciation practice and repeating after the speaker. Quiz at the end

Wednesday, Dec 23

Tessa Hall
30 minutes

mimicking and recording Chinesepod lessons plus learning to recite 《月下獨酌》by 李白 I concentrated on the first 8 lines today.

Wednesday, Dec 23

Amy Blake
110 minutes

Review of 白素贞, 词汇复习仍在进行中。

Wednesday, Dec 23

老爸满恩德
115 minutes

IPA Tuesday + Mimicking. Went through my biggest enemies (ang vs eng vs ong) after practising repeating the whole list of finals. Although I can clearly notice the difference between them ("eng" ge...

Tuesday, Dec 22

quack 嘎本
20 minutes

Mimicking project. Recorded three sections of myself speaking on my phone and was able to pinpoint a few mistakes.

Tuesday, Dec 22

Swimmingcat59
25 minutes

Running through the SP Phonetics and Pleco dictionaries.

Tuesday, Dec 22

Kaynis
40 minutes

Glossika mirroring

Tuesday, Dec 22

Kevin Lee
30 minutes

AllSet tone pairs

Tuesday, Dec 22

Kevin Lee
10 minutes

Mimicking recording during flashcard reviews

Tuesday, Dec 22

Pavel
37 minutes

I played some fluency games

Tuesday, Dec 22

Amity Claggett

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Tessa Hall25.8258%
2.quack 嘎本21.43107%
3.gaojian_studygram21.33213%
4.老爸满恩德14.25142%
5.Sarah莎芮12.74106%
6.文佰川 10.25102%
7.Kaynis10.11101%
8.Amity Claggett10.01250%
9.Kevin Lee9.5163%
10.Amy Blake8.6786%
11.character8.5585%
12.Michael F.8.1754%
13.Swimmingcat597.66109%
14.Esther7.070%
15.Pavel6.4391%
16.Olle Linge5.555%
17.Adiel5.2535%
18.Sara K.4.0100%
19.Henrik3.7854%
20.Juan Diego (俊伟)3.0851%
21.nadiA2.5162%
22.zack2.05102%
23.Alexa 2.0367%
24.Alyssaaaaaaaaaa2.0267%
25.Kim1.9899%
26.Jan1.758%
27.Ryan:)1.575%
28.Milja1.3444%
29.Caitlin 1.2663%
30.Vic Sheldon1.2512%
31.Lilian1.2261%
32.BevisTy ( -_- )1.22122%
33.史康斯1.1758%
34.Joe M.1.171%
35.Jules1.1457%
36.乐乐1.1328%
37.Anish Prasad1.0954%
38.Troy1.06106%
39.Quinnc1.0452%
40.Ollie1.0351%
41.Aidan Kerwin g6 p2 Chinese1.02102%
42.Scott123451.01101%
43.Yankees4WorldSeries20211.0100%
44.Madden B0.9999%
45.Ellieeee0.9748%
46.liisabella100.976%
47.Nic(^○^)0.9748%
48.Bevislevis0.9632%
49.Natalia Ortiz0.9246%
50.Madelyn 0.9292%
51.Brady J.0.9246%
52.Kristen Harrison0.9191%
53.Lillian 0.9145%
54.cindy0.9130%
55.Hailey0.9191%
56.Valeria 0.8944%
57.Bella0.8643%
58.aVa mAvA*0.8585%
59.Nathaniel Crawford0.848%
60.liver👻0.88%
61.Tyler T0.7926%
62.Thomas V0.7826%
63.Bevis original (legit) 0.7638%
64.Parker0.7638%
65.Gregan0.7537%
66.TATumm0.7236%
67.madeleine 0.7123%
68.EllaTheBear0.6767%
69.AveryPonyCakes0.5919%
70.JD0.5454%
71.brynna0.5210%
72.JuJuA88880.550%
73.The Big Cheese 0.550%
74.jn90204710.525%
75.tanner0.424%
76.Jrainwater0.440%
77.madison0.3535%
78.Nat0.343%
79.Tyler0.3434%
80.DMED20200.333%
81.fay0.333%
82.Marlena0.252%
83.Father, I wish to consume the cheddar.0.10%
84.Wa90193610.031%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants129
Hours reported265.14
DurationDecember 10, 2020 to
December 31, 2020 (22 days)