Pronunciation challenge, August 2021

I practised the sounds si, shi, zi, zhi, chi, ci and ri. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if9UTOvQkJo&ab_channel=YoyoChinese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Cj3aOSI1w

en, eng, in, ing, en, eng finals practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x51--A625g

tones videos, practice

Shadowing HC

I practised 1st tone combinations, and also consonants and vowels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDbuji_Hew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnQuHg8F8U

I used speechling for shadowing & recording Even though I'm quite busy and couldn't study pronunciation every day I wanted to, I can still feel I improved a bit.

I didn't give up so I kept practicing z, c, s with other video series, and I like them so much that I practiced again b, p, d, t with them as well. I practiced zh, ch, sh and r too.

tone drills

I practised second tone combinations plus some first tone combinations via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdySIVkSqT0; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDbuji_Hew

I was in a discord voice channel with 中国人. They corrected other people pronunciation and I learnt from it a lot. My Mandarin 发音 is so far from the correct one. 我必须更努力吧

Watched two videos about z, c, and s pronunciation and practiced them using 1st tone only. I generally practice the other tones too, but these letters make me feel overwhelmed so easily x.x

Some shadowing practice.

Reading text aloud, paying extra attention to n an ng difference and correct tongue position

wuxia15 joined the challenge!

practicing tones in new words ahead of reading aloud to convo partner (just characters)

I practised 4th tone combinations with a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzlurU-yup4 (Had to stop and go back a few times on difficult words.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKKg0N5JXIc I used this video both to review some vocabulary I've learned before and to practice my intonation. Took me a lot of time to go over each sentence until...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FluQes2E8ZM

Recently I've been trying to make my pronunciation of the consonants more accurate and native-like, hence I'm going over some video lessons for beginners. j,q,x practice https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Shadowing + recording & correcting myself

数据，出去，业务，出国，网络

Chinese Pod's Say It Right

I practised 3rd tone combinations with a YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcOMmC5qy08. I also made a start on 4th tone combinations.

继续