Import-Export Beauty Products Factory (continued). I wasn't able to complete the whole video in my previous session, so I continued to listen to it in this session.

Import-Export Beauty Products Factory
I did stop a few times to collect business-related phrases to import into my Anki card decks.

I listened to the following three times each: Clavis Sinica 's Chinese Voices Project - 女博士
Slow Chinese - 中秋节
Slow Chinese - 新春快乐，虎年大吉！

Listened to an episode of 中国民间故事:《白蛇传》(one round of passive listening, one round of active listening. I'm not yet at the level where I can get a good understanding of what's going on wihtout at least a transcript of Chinese characters. It might've been a better idea to pick a podcast related to topics I'm more interested in building vocabulary on, such as environmental issues or marine biology.

Slow Chinese - 1 - 端午节 (three times, where I followed along with the text on the second listen, and checked unfamilar characters).
Clavis Sinica - 只有一个地球 (three times, same procedure as above).

Mandarin Corner - Life of an Old Chinese Fisherman. I could understand the broad topics of conversation, such as how long the man had been a fisherman, declines in fish populations, issues of pollution, whether his children became fishers, etc. As far as I understood, scenes from the Donnie Yen movie "一个人的武林" were shot in the fishing village where the interviewee lives.

Mandarin Corner - What Kind of Girls Do Chinese Guys Like? This was a rather amusing way to learn some new vocabulary and grammar structures!

Listened to an episode of 兩個女生的聊天記錄. This episode happened to be on Covid-19, so there was more vocabulary I recognised (including comparison structures).

Listened to two episodes of the 兩個女生的聊天記錄 podcast.

Listened to two episodes of 兩個女生的聊天記錄, a podcast I found out about via Grace Mandarin Chinese.

Mandarin Corner - A Walk Around Macao. I finished listening to the video for a second time.

Mandarin Corner - A Walk Around Macao (finished the first listen, and got partway through the second listen).

Mandarin Corner - A Walk Around Macao. It was helpful to have English subtitles - I think I would've struggled to understand the currency and measurement units otherwise.

Mandarin Corner - China Night Market Barbecue Food Seller (second listen). This time I did understand a little more thanks to the previous listen. I tried not to pause the video often, except where there was a word I didn't know that repeated several times.

Mandarin Corner - China Night Market Barbecue Food Seller. There was quite a lot of business-related vocabulary that I didn't know.

Finished A Walk Around a Chinese Fishing Village, and started on China Night Market Barbecue Food Seller (both videos are from the Mandarin Corner YouTube channel). In the beginning of the video, Eileen (the presenter) pointed out common differences in Mandarin spoken with a Cantonese accent and "standard" Mandarin, which was helpful.

Mandarin Corner - A Walk Around a Chinese Fishing Village (continued). I didn't feel the need to stop and translate as much this time, thanks to the new words I'd learned previously. The speech patterns of Yayun (Eileen's friend) are also easier to follow at this point.

Mandarin Corner - A Walk Around A Chinese Fishing Village (not completed in one session). At first I was worried when I saw that there were no English subtitles, but as I went on, I was happy to find that there was a good amount I could understand with Mandarin Chinese subtitles alone (in both characters and pinyin). There was also a bunch of interesting ecology and biology-related words, so I kept stopping the video to put them in my Anki card decks.

Mandarin Corner - A Walk in a Chinese Wet Market.

I finished the Mandarin Corner video titled Why is Getting a Wife So Expensive For Chinese Men? I found that as the video went on, I could pick out individual words in the male speaker's parts of the dialogue more easily. For me, this experience emphasized the importance of listening to spoken Mandarin Chinese with different accents.

Mandarin Corner - The Payback. Also started the conversation video titled Why is Getting a Wife so Expensive for Chinese Men?

Mandarin Corner - Gaining Face. I had to pause a few times to look at the text for unfamiliar words and grammar structures.