Listening challenge, January 2021

Transcription Monday. Worked with Hacking Chinese's recommended material "Slow Chinese" (https://kitchenknif.github.io/SlowChinese/) with the first story, 端午节. Listened about 2-3 times without any...

4 episodes of 大鹏说中文。

Video semi-active listening

Heating up for today's intensive transcription practise with some passive/not-so-passive listening of news. First 15 minutes of pure passive listening then watched CCTV4's 30 mins news trying to so...

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 ...

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 atten...

特警队 - movie

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Ivan. And some Jordan. So so right, and so so wrong.

I watched the last episode of Detention.

Chugging along on MC GE Part 1 Audio book plus the eBook. A chapter a day with time to review and revise.

Mandarin Companion audiobook “红猴的价格”. Read the book about a year ago, now listened to the audiobook in one go. Understood about 90% of everything. Success? Did it while mildly distracted, i.e...

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Semi-active listening

Video active listening

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Watched twice the first episode of 西游记 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhsG3GQSPCs

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Mandarin Corner : Chinese Beauty Standards

two episodes of "Fairyland Lovers" and "Mandarin Corner : talking about chinese beauty standards" but only in passive listening so I divided the reported time by two

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

Video active listening