Pronunciation challenge, August 2021

This is a challenge where your goal is to improve your Chinese pronunciation. Please read the linked article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

60 minutes

continued with 数据跨境流动。 had a great time getting 数据出境 spot on

Wednesday, Aug 11

character
60 minutes

reading an article from 文化纵横 to my conversation partner

Wednesday, Aug 11

character
13 minutes

Listened to feedback from recordings, recorded new things

Wednesday, Aug 11

Huey
30 minutes

Practiced pinyin vowels, and letters b and p

Wednesday, Aug 11

貝琪

貝琪 joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Aug 11

貝琪
10 minutes

Practiced tone pairs on google sheets repeating each word 3 times - Sent audio to a native for review.

Tuesday, Aug 10

Beau
10 minutes

started

Tuesday, Aug 10

Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Brian Kelly
40 minutes

checked out Mandarin Chinese Tone Pair Drills for 10 mins, then practised with Immersive Chinese app

Tuesday, Aug 10

Rattigan

Anna Dobro joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Anna Dobro
60 minutes

Reviewed third tone rules, recorded myself reading sentences

Tuesday, Aug 10

Mylène

Risha joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Risha
41 minutes

I recorded myself saying the tone combinations from this Hacking Chinese article: https://www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/. It soon became appar...

Tuesday, Aug 10

LaurenF
60 minutes

Shadowing

Tuesday, Aug 10

YanaLee

Ranu joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Ranu
60 minutes

My plan for this month's challenge is to use a TV show to practice shadowing and basically to try to imitate the native speakers' accents, pronunciation, intonation, etc. The show I chose is 《最好的...

Tuesday, Aug 10

YanaLee

Kevin Lee joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Kevin Lee
15 minutes

Tuesday, Aug 10

Harmony
15 minutes

recording sentences and asking folks on tandem for feedback

Tuesday, Aug 10

Huey

Harmony joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 10

Harmony

Beau joined the challenge!

Monday, Aug 09

Beau

LaurenF joined the challenge!

Monday, Aug 09

LaurenF

Mylène joined the challenge!

Sunday, Aug 08

Mylène

方子妮 joined the challenge!

Saturday, Aug 07

方子妮

Wendy joined the challenge!

Friday, Aug 06

Wendy

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.YanaLee20.08133%
2.character19.8699%
3.LaurenF15.03100%
4.Huey3.939%
5.Risha3.33166%
6.Harmony3.0830%
7.wuxia153.0130%
8.貝琪2.6526%
9.Rattigan2.525%
10.Mylène2.040%
11.Sarah莎芮1.0810%
12.Ranu1.010%
13.Sherley0.66%
14.Kevin Lee0.333%
15.Brian Kelly0.171%
16.Beau0.172%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants39
Hours reported78.79
DurationAugust 10, 2021 to
August 31, 2021 (22 days)