Participation
in Listening challenge, January 2021



7 minutes
0.12h

ChinesePod's Qing Wen: Saying You're Angry: 生气

30 minutes
0.5h

Peppa Pig (9 episodes) in Mandarin

8 minutes
0.13h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: Basic Compound Finals

15 minutes
0.25h

Happy Chinese: Episode 1 (The Guest From Afar)

15 minutes
0.25h

Happy Chinese: Episode 2 (An Image Issue)

10 minutes
0.17h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: Compound Finals with 'Missing' Letters

-ui
-iu
-en/-un

zun1 jing4 = respect
jiu4 ming4 = help!
qiu1 tian1 = autumn
he1 shui3 = to drink water
chui1 feng1 = to blow wind
wen1 du4 = temperature
dun1 xia4lai2 = to squat down
tun1 = to swallow
jun1 ren2 = soldier

25 minutes
0.42h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: The Difficult I/U/Ü Vowel Sounds

150 minutes
2.5h

Accidentally in Love (ep. 8-13)

15 minutes
0.25h

ChinesePod's Qing Wen: The Mysteries of Age

你几岁了?ni3 ji3 sui4 le
你多大了?ni3 duo1 da4 le
您多大年纪了?nin2 duo1 da4 nian2ji4 le
您看起来没那么大。nin2 kan4 qi3lai2 mei2 na4me da4
你属什么的?ni3 shu3 shen2me de
你是几几年出生的?ni3 shi4 ji3 ji3 nian2 chu1sheng1 de

13 minutes
0.22h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: Three Groups of Tricky Initials

6 minutes
0.1h

Skritter: The Military Genius, Zhuge Liang

三个臭皮匠 胜过一个诸葛亮

4 minutes
0.07h

Skritter: 盲人摸象

8 minutes
0.13h

Chinese Colloquialised: Episode 57《青花瓷》vs 青花瓷 (Jay Chou's “Qing Hua Ci" vs blue and white porcelain)

passive listening

14 minutes
0.23h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: Labial Initial Sounds

bo po mo fo; beng peng meng feng; bo1 ke4 (podcast); po1 shui3 (to spill water); mo1 tou2 (to touch one's head); fo2 jiao4 (Buddhism); feng1 (wind); peng1 ren4 (cooking); peng1 ji1 (to attack verbally or in writing)

15 minutes
0.25h

Clozemaster: Fluency Fast Track

replayed audio clips for each sentence to familiarise self with sounds of new characters/phrases

xi1wang4 (to wish for, to desire) = 希望; ke3 neng2 (likely) = 可能; qiao1 men2 (to knock on a door) = 敲门; hui2 ying4 (to respond, response) = 回应; nao4 (noisy) = 闹

11 minutes
0.18h

ChinesePod's Qing Wen: Introduce Your Name Like a Native

45 minutes
0.75h

Skritter: various videos

请你冷静一点!qing3 ni3 leng3jing4 yi4dian3
八字还没一撇 ba1 zi4 hai2 mei2 yi4 pie3
桌游 zhou1 you2
年年有余 nian2 nian2 you3 yu2
如鱼得水⁠ ru2 yu2 de shui3
种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆 zhong4 gua1 de gua1, zhong4 dou4 de dou4
提神 = ti2 shen2
彩虹屁」cai3hong2pi4
嗯~ o(* ̄▽ ̄*)o
真的假的!zhen1 de jia3 de
你觉得如何?ni3 jue2de2 ru2he2

44 minutes
0.73h

Mandarin Corner: 50 Sentences For Small Talk

50 minutes
0.83h

Mandarin Corner: 42 Essential Sentence Patterns(又。。。又,一边。。。一边,比, 一方面。。。一方面)

initially preoccupied with pinyin displayed on screen; upon realising this, switched methods halfway to focus entirely on listening

30 minutes
0.5h

Mandarin Corner: Live Streaming in China is Exploding!

25 minutes
0.42h

ChinesePod's Say It Right: Mandarin Tone Change Rules Overview




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:90.0%
Score9.0
Rank36th
Hours reported9.0
Goal10h