Listening challenge, January 2021

percy_thrillington joined the challenge!

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.

Intermediate Chinesepod dialoges

listened to learning chinese through stories while having a snack

Jan joined the challenge!

Episode 9 of Nothing But Thirty

Moving along on my MC GE audio and ebooks.

Harry Potter audiobook

Mandarin Companion audiobook "王子和穷孩子"。 Chapters 1-3. 1.5 speed from the beginning. Was driving, so quite challenging, hard to concentrate.

One episode chinesepod (一带一路 part 2), one episode 自然而然说中文，one episode 听故事学中文，watching kongfu panda in Chinese for a bit.

Video active listening

Podcast passive listening

Mandarin Companion audiobook "卷发公司的案子"。 1.5 speed on the second attempt was a lot easier, understood just about everything.

Class with tutor. Was mostly me talking, though.

Mandarin Companion audiobook "卷发公司的案子"。 1.5 speed on the first attempt, quite hard. Tend to miss a lot of details.

patient convos, 百灵果， Ivan

Active listening, finishing listening to and transcribing the dialogues of the ChinesePod Newbie Curriculum.

More 閱讀的快樂

Background listening of 2 Popupchinese beginner podcast. I use "ultra" low level to make sure I can understand all or almost all of it without paying attention.

Listened to Du Chinese stories and a couple ChinesePod episodes (discounted in length since the early ones are half English or more!). Slowing down on LCTS this month. Thinking I'll return to that ...

Episode 8 of Nothing But Thirty.

Listened to北京故事广播for 30 minutes

Chinese Pod

One episode of Dream Detective without eng. subs.