Participation
in Listening challenge, January 2021



15 minutes
0.25h

Movie review

40 minutes
0.67h
20 minutes
0.33h
50 minutes
0.83h

Mandarin Corner "Being a Tattoo Artist in China"

30 minutes
0.5h

Mandarin Corner

40 minutes
0.67h

Listened to some Chinese songs while working out

60 minutes
1.0h

YouTube vlogs in Chinese

60 minutes
1.0h
40 minutes
0.67h
90 minutes
1.5h
30 minutes
0.5h

口语老炮儿马思瑞

60 minutes
1.0h
100 minutes
1.67h

Mandarin Corner

40 minutes
0.67h

《Hotel Trainees》第三集

40 minutes
0.67h

《Hotel Trainees》第一集

40 minutes
0.67h

《Hotel Trainees》第二集

120 minutes
2.0h
30 minutes
0.5h

Mandarin Corner

50 minutes
0.83h

Children's cartoon

30 minutes
0.5h

Chinese vlogs

20 minutes
0.33h
30 minutes
0.5h

Children Fairytales

60 minutes
1.0h

Listened to Mandarin Corner while doing my daily workout.
I'm trying to squeeze in as much active listening as possible throughout the day. I'm probably not gonna reach my goal (35 hours), but I'm planning a marathon on Saturday, so we'll see how it turns out.

30 minutes
0.5h
30 minutes
0.5h

故事FM

60 minutes
1.0h

Mandarin Corner

60 minutes
1.0h

故事FM

30 minutes
0.5h

mandarin corner

10 minutes
0.17h

textbook audio

44 minutes
0.73h

Mandarin Corner

40 minutes
0.67h

Mandarin Corner

70 minutes
1.17h

Mandarin corner

15 minutes
0.25h

Transcribing two songs (harder than I thought).
孫盛希 Shi Shi【逃 Come Away】
伍佰 【Last Dance】
Something I noticed is that whenever there was "xiang", I would hear it as "shang". For example, in words like 相爱 (not sure if it's because the singer is Taiwanese, or I have some hearing problems xD)

60 minutes
1.0h

30 分钟 - Kevin in Shanghai
10 分钟 - HSK四级标准教程 - 第十六课的听力练习
20 分钟 - 天天汉语的成语故事

30 minutes
0.5h

Kevin in Shanghai's videos

23 minutes
0.38h

China's Mama's boy (Mandarin Corner)
Learned some slang - 妈宝男 (Mama's boy)

45 minutes
0.75h

5分钟 - 花木兰的故事 (天天汉语)
生词: 预告片 (trailer)
5 分钟 - 七夕节 (天天汉语)
5 分钟 - 李小龙的故事
5 分钟 - listened to lesson 16's dialogues from my hsk 4 textbook
25 分中 - 中国女人喜欢什么样的男人? (天天汉语)

30 minutes
0.5h

Mandarin corner's video

70 minutes
1.17h

5分钟 - 鬼故事 (说说中文)- Listened 2 times at 1.5x speed. Short and very easy to follow, yet I learned some new words from it:
自杀 - to commit suicide
杀死 - to kill (someone)
5分钟 - 我危险的旅行故事 (说说中文)
搭车 - to hitchhike
5分钟 - How I learned English/Thai/Japanese (说说中文) - watched at 1.5x speed
10分钟 - My Scary Travel Experience in Sri Lanka(说说中文)
5 分钟 - Why I Dropped Out of Medical School and Came to Thailand (说说中文)
5 分钟 - Why I left China (说说中文)
5 分钟 - What I miss about China (说说中文)
5 分钟 - What I would say to myself from five years ago (说说中文)
25 分钟 - Would Chinese Date Foreigners? (Mandarin Corner)

70 minutes
1.17h

《谢谢让遇见你》第一集 - watched it two times, the second, checking the unknown vocabulary.

40 minutes
0.67h

Watched the first episode of a drama called 暖暖请多指教. All actors' speech was clear and standard (probably a voice-over), and not much slang was used, so I had no problem understanding what they were saying. The only problem is, I don't like the plot and everything is so dramatic and cringe, so it is unlikely that I'll continue with the next episodes.

70 minutes
1.17h

Watched Mandarin Corner's "The 996 working culture"(2x25min), first without looking at the hanzi, and then a second time - reading the subtitles whenever I couldn't understand.
After that, I watched "University Student Talks About Her Life"(20 min), also a Mandarin corner's video. I'm surprised that I had a harder time understanding this one (compared to "996"), even though it uses simpler language and very common phrases and words. I think it has to do with the accent of the student.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:91.6%
Score32.06
Rank6th
Hours reported32.06
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Goal35h