Speaking challenge, April 2021

last week of speaking

More morning shadowing. Definitely not as smooth as yesterday.

Read the last story out of Zhou Haisheng, then recorded myself speaking - I didn't plan this time! And I think it went better - maybe I am improving. :) Although I found it's really hard to describ...

跟我的老师聊天

Glossika practice, I'm continuously liking that it challenges me to repeat at a faster pace and pay attention to how to do proper reduction or tone "smoothing" (for lack of a better word ... hummm!)

Getting a new visa, applying for health insurance, going to the doctor

reading out loud and recording it

跟我同事说话

verbling

Read aloud and recorded it. Then tried to describe a test I'm going to take soon.... And Chinese grammar - it was really hard! Probably because my grammar is not great....

Lots of shadowing.

Conversation on vaccine rollout in China and US

Conversation to practice for oral proficiency exam

Conversation with friends mother on elder care

Talking with myself in the car. I can this challenge has improved my fluency. The beginning of my car exercises were pretty rough, but now I feel like I can keep a constant flow of thoughts for the...

new words

reading out loud, mimicking a native speaker, repeating a song... brain melting

Audio Dairy: 安末 ch. 7 discussion questions and self-interview about studying Chinese

Pronunciation practice

Pronunciation practice

HSK 4 Flashcards session Adjectives 1-30 words and sentences Adjectives 31-60 words and sentences

reviewing pronunciation of ch and q

Talking with the chinese staff in my school