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

50 minutes

A couple online tests and a lesson on DCP

Tuesday, Dec 22

Amity Claggett
15 minutes

I spent time drilling 1+2 and 2+2 tone pairs, recorded more complaints in Mandarin about how boring it is to practice pronunciation, and then tried to improve the pronunciation of certain words in ...

Tuesday, Dec 22

Sara K.
30 minutes

Review pronunciation for my PE class words and sentences.

Tuesday, Dec 22

Adiel
60 minutes

Lesson with tutor Lots of pronunciation practice, and tone corrections. I feel like I'm relatively decent at copying after my tutor says something, but butcher the pronunciaiton the first tim...

Tuesday, Dec 22

Pavel
50 minutes

Spoonfed and read the Chapter 15 dialogues from NPCR out loud while recording myself.

Tuesday, Dec 22

文佰川
23 minutes

Bluebird- Category: Accessories (23:10) pronunciation and repeating after speaker. Quiz

Tuesday, Dec 22

Tessa Hall
40 minutes

Completed some dialogues on Du Chinese.

Tuesday, Dec 22

Sarah莎芮
45 minutes

Pronunciation of the words Anki HSK 4 vocab + making sentences with these words.

Tuesday, Dec 22

Adiel
65 minutes

Reviewed some recordings + practised S, Z, C / en / an, ang / ang VS eng / eng VS ong Maybe I should blend in more fun into my practising, sometimes I get tired of not getting some specific sounds...

Tuesday, Dec 22

quack 嘎本
30 minutes

mimicking and recording glossika and du chinese plus learning to recite 《月下獨酌》by 李白 it's a bit longer than the ones I learned before so I concentrated on the first 4 lines today.

Monday, Dec 21

Amy Blake
20 minutes

Mimicking recording during flashcard reviews Catching up on the backlog of flashcards from the weekend, didn't have time to finish everything.

Monday, Dec 21

Pavel
45 minutes

Mindful Skritter session working on some sentences and new characters along with more 《月下獨酌》practice.

Monday, Dec 21

gaojian_studygram
15 minutes

I recorded myself complaining (in Mandarin) about how boring it is to practice pronunciation, listened to it, drilled the parts which I pronounced the worst, and then recorded myself making those c...

Monday, Dec 21

Sara K.
60 minutes

Spoonfed cards and read two dialogues from NPCR out loud.

Monday, Dec 21

文佰川
20 minutes

My husband helped me practice tones for a bit (especially the third tone). He would tell me something in English and then I would translate it to Chinese and try to get all the tones right without ...

Sunday, Dec 20

Sarah莎芮
30 minutes

mimicking and recording Chinesepod, Du Chinese and Glossika. Recited 《春曉》by 孟浩然

Sunday, Dec 20

Amy Blake
20 minutes

Listened to and mimicked the passages from my online HSK 4 class (week 1, l. 4 & 5).

Sunday, Dec 20

Sarah莎芮
149 minutes

Bluebird Lessons- Category: Cities Lesson 1 (34:55) Lesson 2 (21:46) Category: Clothes Lesson 1 (33:29) Lesson 2 (7:47) Each lesson is practice pronunciation by repeating after the speaker. Qu...

Sunday, Dec 20

Tessa Hall
20 minutes

Ditto.....

Sunday, Dec 20

Kaynis
15 minutes

First of all, I've learned that I can't stand spending more than fifteen minutes per session on pronunciation (at least on my own, it might be more interesting with a tutor). I kept on recording...

Sunday, Dec 20

Sara K.
60 minutes

Spoonfed and read two texts from NPCR out loud while recording myself.

Sunday, Dec 20

文佰川
30 minutes

Glossika

Sunday, Dec 20

Kevin Lee

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)