Speaking challenge, April 2021

Focus on improving your speaking ability, including fluency, pronunciation and much more. See the challenge article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

45 minutes

My language partner asked me questions in Chinese for 90 minutes of which I estimate spending about half of the time answering, since I also spent time listening, repeating the questions and thinki...

Sunday, Apr 11

西蒙
5 minutes

台語練習

Sunday, Apr 11

Harmony
60 minutes

Verbling class

Sunday, Apr 11

Huey
20 minutes

Talking with locals, spent a few hours with them, but probably only spent a fraction of the time speaking.

Sunday, Apr 11

Huey
5 minutes

Audio recording

Sunday, Apr 11

Victoria
25 minutes

Flashcards - HSK 1 nouns 31-62 in sentences. Translate the English sentence to Mandarin outloud, listen to the audio to repeat the correct pronunciation of the sentence.

Sunday, Apr 11

Tessa Hall
45 minutes

Recited parts of the story 完美的弓 from http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/06/11/childrens-story-%e5%ae%8c%e7%be%8e%e7%9a%84%e5%bc%93-the-perfect-archery-bow/ -- this was much above my level, so t...

Sunday, Apr 11

西蒙
30 minutes

Read aloud the story 海上和床上 found at http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/06/25/short-story-on-the-sea-and-in-bed/ -- this story was a bit above my level. While speaking, I wrote down the pinyin f...

Sunday, Apr 11

西蒙

西蒙 joined the challenge!

Sunday, Apr 11

西蒙
25 minutes

I read 12 different small texts of my Chinesse book and repeat twice ! I forget how to pronounce some characters ;)

Saturday, Apr 10

Carmen
35 minutes

Driver on a lift turned out to be Chinese, had a longer if slightly stilted conversation

Saturday, Apr 10

Ferran Diya

Ferran Diya joined the challenge!

Saturday, Apr 10

Ferran Diya
20 minutes

Repeating after the main leads' lines in 《忽然今夏》, focusing on the tones, stress, and intonation.

Saturday, Apr 10

YanaLee
10 minutes

Using my lesson word list and repeating each one after the teacher (x3)

Saturday, Apr 10

languageslouise

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Saturday, Apr 10

languageslouise

Kevin Lee joined the challenge!

Saturday, Apr 10

Kevin Lee
60 minutes

Language exchange with fiends delightful mother. 今早我第一次见面我好朋友的妈妈。她是四川人。我们聊天一个小时了。

Saturday, Apr 10

馬安妮

馬安妮 joined the challenge!

Saturday, Apr 10

馬安妮
25 minutes

Recorded myself reading an article out loud and sent it to my Chinese teacher

Saturday, Apr 10

Huey
20 minutes

Flashcards - HSK 1 nouns 1-30 in sentences. Have to say the English sentence in Mandarin, tap the card to see if it was correct, then listen to the audio to repeat the correct pronunciation of the...

Saturday, Apr 10

Tessa Hall

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Friday, Apr 09

Kelly C

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Friday, Apr 09

Henrik

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Friday, Apr 09

ALR

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Friday, Apr 09

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Friday, Apr 09

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