Participation
in Listening challenge, January 2021
70 minutes 1.17h
passive listening while doing chores
15 minutes 0.25h
background and passive listening
40 minutes 0.67h
first passively listened, then actively and transcribed, then background listened to the same audio from Mandarin Corner.
20 minutes 0.33h
passive listening. But i did learn a few Taiwanese Mandarin words!
50 minutes 0.83h
30 minutes of somewhat active listening (tried to interpret a little to my mom) and 20 minutes of passive listening.
45 minutes 0.75h
passive listening to the Taiwanese podcast again in the car
30 minutes 0.5h
playing escape game on wordswing with in listening only mode. I did have to listen several times pretty often because there were words I didn't know and I just didn't catch it all on the first time.
20 minutes 0.33h
passive listening to Learn Taiwanese Mandarin podcast
30 minutes 0.5h
driving and listening to podcast - I think it's called learning Taiwanese Mandarin. I could actually understand it pretty well. It wasn't super fast, and there were quite a few words I knew.
Side note: it seemed like she always said "zhei4" for "zhe4" (this).
40 minutes 0.67h
listening to things as i organized my youtube library into playlists of different levels of Chinese
75 minutes 1.25h
mostly going through my audio library/finding new resources (while listening to them of course)
40 minutes 0.67h
LCTS episode - listened to the story several times, and after a few times looked at their suggested vocabulary on the spotify description - which really helped. After I could understand it, and then I could understand the episode where they explained the story too. It was episode 1.3.20 I think - about a frog in a well.
20 minutes 0.33h
listening while cooking
45 minutes 0.75h
30 this morning transcribing a mandarin corner video and 15 this afternoon listening to a LCTS podcast about a song, and then listening to the song. I could understand the idea of the song, but the video had so many different accents that I couldn't follow very well at all. And the English subtitles were distracting :)
15 minutes 0.25h
passive listening to Mandarin Corner video while doing chores
30 minutes 0.5h
listening to LCTS while driving
30 minutes 0.5h
Passive listening - China's Mama's Boy by Mandarin Corner. I might return to this at some point later in the challenge.
40 minutes 0.67h
some background listening to a podcast episode from learning chinese through stories. I did actually pick out a few words from it to look up though, and they helped me understand it better.
30 minutes 0.5h
transcribed a video by Mandarin Corner (one I'd listened to a while back). I had to get used to transcribing again - it kind of takes getting into the groove. It definitely helped that I knew a few of the key words from when I listened to it the first time.
70 minutes 1.17h
Focused on a different Harry Potter video - it was a guy telling the story over scenes from the movie - so no real dialogue. I probably worked too much on his introduction, writing down words and looking them up. It was also kind of strange how I could get the general idea even though there were lots of fancy phrases (that he went over at the end - I didn't listen to that, it wasn't useful). Probably because I already knew the story. But I also understood the idea of what he said at the beginning in the intro too.
I also did some passive listening.
65 minutes 1.08h
listened to several clips from Harry Potter in Chinese. Did each a few times. Then I focused on one and listened it more, wrote down words to look up, and used the Chinese subtitles. By the time I was done, I could understand a lot more than at the beginning.
50 minutes 0.83h
passive listening
25 minutes 0.42h
watched 2 videos in Chinese by Shuoshuozhongwen on youtube. She speaks relatively slow, so I could understand some of what was said. The first was passive, second one more active, paying more attention. could understand more on the 2nd, maybe 75%
Challenge time progress: | |
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Goal progress: |
Score | 14.92 |
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Rank | 25th |
Hours reported | 14.92 |
Goal | 15h |