Participation
in Listening challenge, January 2021



75 minutes
1.25h

Another set of ChinesePod lessons, including 北京腔 Beijing accent and other topics.

75 minutes
1.25h

ChinesePod Intermediate Grammar, Chengyu, and various topics. One great thing about listening to conversational audio is that I get to notice more differences between conversational language, compared to written language. For example, the 如果...的話 pattern is conversational, but the 的話 isn't really used in written language.

60 minutes
1.0h

ChinesePod Intermediate City Lessons: Bali, Las Vegas, etc. Also various topics such as Repairs, Office Visits, etc

75 minutes
1.25h

ChinesePod upper-intermediate lessons: Rome, Hanoi, Airplane Landings, etc.

60 minutes
1.0h

Finished the Intermediate ChinesePod podcasts regarding technology, and now listening to the Intermediate "Daily Life" series, which includes ordering food and other life situations.

75 minutes
1.25h

ChinesePod intermediate lessons, relating to technology (updating an app, Taiwan vs China terminology), etc)

45 minutes
0.75h

ChinesePod Upper Intermediate Lessons, including A Job Posting for Sales Reps, Motivating a Team, Working at the U.N. I'll have to go back and review these later multiple times, so that I can memorize some of the vocab.

60 minutes
1.0h

A mix of Advanced and Intermediate ChinesePod lessons, going through the lessons marked 'Curriculum' (Examples: Quitting My Job and Starting Over, Job Market for Laowei)

60 minutes
1.0h

Continued Audible Audiobook: Intermediate Chinese Short Stories, including listening again to the Weixin and the Zodiac stories.

60 minutes
1.0h

Listened about 30 min of Advanced ChinesePod lessons, but those are tiring to follow because those are definitely above my level. These are mostly in Chinese and only use a bit of English, so that's been helpful. I then did 30 min of Intermediate lessons, which would be closer to my level.

60 minutes
1.0h

ChinesePod videos and lessons, ranging from Elementary (when I was a bit tired, less active listening) to Intermediate (when I could focus my full attention, active listening).

25 minutes
0.42h

Audiobook: Intermediate Chinese Short Stories, which has relatively large chunks of stories told exclusively in Chinese, followed by vocabulary and a few questions.

45 minutes
0.75h

Another 45 min of ChinesePod (Dialogue, Expansion, etc). It's amazing how many different words are out there..

45 minutes
0.75h

ChinesePod: listening to elementary lesson dialogues and also searching/writing up words that I recognize. I only listen to the dialogues at this point and not the whole podcast, because I would be able to recognize about 70-100% of the dialogue at this level. There's definitely some specialized terminology on certain topics that I'm not familiar with, such as gymnastics.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:136.7%
Score13.67
Rank29th
Hours reported13.67
Goal10h