Listening challenge, January 2021

This is a listening challenge! Listen to as much Chinese as you can before the end of January. Please refer to the linked article for more information and inspiration.


Recent activities

60 minutes

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...

Monday, Jan 11

quack 嘎本
19 minutes

4 episodes of 大鹏说中文。

Monday, Jan 11

Juan Diego (俊伟)
20 minutes

Monday, Jan 11

Theresa
70 minutes

Video semi-active listening

Monday, Jan 11

Ferran Diya
45 minutes

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...

Monday, Jan 11

quack 嘎本
40 minutes

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 ...

Monday, Jan 11

YanaLee
25 minutes

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...

Monday, Jan 11

Swimmingcat59
12 minutes

特警队 - movie

Monday, Jan 11

Barbara

Swimmingcat59 joined the challenge!

Monday, Jan 11

Swimmingcat59
60 minutes

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

Monday, Jan 11

character
50 minutes

I watched the last episode of Detention.

Monday, Jan 11

Sarah莎芮
35 minutes

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

Monday, Jan 11

Kaynis
66 minutes

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...

Monday, Jan 11

Pavel

Marlena joined the challenge!

Monday, Jan 11

Marlena
60 minutes

Semi-active listening

Monday, Jan 11

Ferran Diya
45 minutes

Video active listening

Monday, Jan 11

Ferran Diya

Shi Heng joined the challenge!

Monday, Jan 11

Shi Heng
14 minutes

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

Monday, Jan 11

yafinka

yafinka joined the challenge!

Monday, Jan 11

yafinka
35 minutes

Mandarin Corner : Chinese Beauty Standards

Monday, Jan 11

Kelin
60 minutes

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

Monday, Jan 11

Kelin

Kelin joined the challenge!

Monday, Jan 11

Kelin
45 minutes

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

Monday, Jan 11

Peter W
60 minutes

Video active listening

Monday, Jan 11

Ferran Diya

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.文佰川 68.59228%
2.Adiel47.23314%
3.quack 嘎本46.57116%
4.Ferran Diya43.87104%
5.Sarah莎芮41.15293%
6.YanaLee32.0691%
7.Pavel31.85106%
8.character31.17311%
9.Victoria 30.53152%
10.Jorrit van der Heide30.1100%
11.Esther29.76148%
12.gaojian_studygram27.95186%
13.Olle Linge27.0135%
14.Amy爱美22.52150%
15.Sara K.21.43142%
16.Juan Diego (俊伟)20.93104%
17.Amy Blake20.74138%
18.老爸满恩德20.0200%
19.Florence19.74197%
20.Ben Parker18.9118%
21.Janis17.7688%
22.Kaynis16.94105%
23.Kelin16.22147%
24.Tessa Hall15.64156%
25.Swimmingcat5914.9299%
26.Poluo14.6158%
27.Alyssaaaaaaaaaa13.97139%
28.Peter W13.67136%
29.Barbara12.86107%
30.Bill11.91119%
31.Michael F.10.3569%
32.Yong Li10.09100%
33.Sofia10.0166%
34.Yean9.9366%
35.Nadya Oppenheim9.090%
36.Christopher Coulouris 8.8358%
37.Shi Heng7.9972%
38.Warren Lammert7.9479%
39.Malaili 7.6676%
40.Theresa 7.28104%
41.Janna7.0870%
42.Kim6.5865%
43.Ilia6.51108%
44.yafinka6.41128%
45.liisabella105.6356%
46.Cara5.0100%
47.Elvira4.4920%
48.tiwi3.9819%
49.Milja3.7512%
50.madeleine 3.3165%
51.Jin3.025%
52.Jan2.7918%
53.Alexa 2.62131%
54.Emilie2.3338%
55.Kristen Harrison2.27227%
56.Caitlin 2.22111%
57.Valeria 2.22111%
58.Bevis original (legit) 2.2173%
59.EllaTheBear2.2173%
60.aVa mAvA*2.2220%
61.Madelyn 2.17108%
62.Joe M.2.1553%
63.Lilian2.14107%
64.Ellieeee2.12106%
65.Amity Claggett2.1270%
66.zane. 2.066%
67.Matthew Goulding2.09%
68.zack1.9819%
69.Quinnc1.98198%
70.ryan:)1.9899%
71.Natalia Ortiz1.9798%
72.Tyler T1.9765%
73.Aidan Kerwin g6 p2 Chinese1.94194%
74.Brady J.1.9296%
75.Hailey1.9296%
76.乐乐1.8947%
77.Parker1.8592%
78.nadiA1.8190%
79.JuJuA88881.8160%
80.cindy1.7587%
81.Madden B1.73173%
82.Troy1.7386%
83.Jules1.7185%
84.Anish Prasad1.7185%
85.史康斯1.785%
86.Bevislevis1.6856%
87.Lillian 1.6727%
88.Scott123451.6716%
89.Nathaniel Crawford1.6482%
90.Bella1.5815%
91.tanner1.5538%
92.Jrainwater1.5150%
93.Sandy Samy1.515%
94.Yankees4WorldSeries20211.5150%
95.Gregan1.4837%
96.madison1.4714%
97.BevisTy ( -_- )1.47147%
98.JD1.4773%
99.liver👻1.4614%
100.AveryPonyCakes1.4271%
101.Tyler1.36136%
102.Nic😎1.35135%
103.alasse1.3412%
104.lizzie1.313%
105.The Big Cheese 1.2562%
106.Ollie1.1859%
107.荣Elizabeth1.010%
108.Lc1.010%
109. Cody0.954%
110.Nat0.929%
111.丽莎0.835%
112.Nic(^○^)0.7676%
113.brynna0.755%
114.ryango0.674%
115.Wa90193610.5317%
116.TATumm0.535%
117.Alexia.M0.256%
118.Thomas V0.255%
119.Father, I wish to consume the cheddar.0.160%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants167
Hours reported1038.37
DurationJanuary 10, 2021 to
January 31, 2021 (22 days)