Speaking challenge, April 2022

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


Recent activities

20 minutes

朋友

Sunday, May 01

fay
20 minutes

Chinese Breeze 朋友

Sunday, May 01

fay
75 minutes

(1) Michel Thomas course - going over lessons I've done before, focusing on pronunciation. (2) Practising children's rhymes - focusing on pronunciation. (2) 2nd half of video 4.1 from pronunciation...

Saturday, Apr 30

Kathryn
20 minutes

Practised with Learn Chinese Essentials and Chinese Class 101 conversation videos.

Saturday, Apr 30

LaurenF
50 minutes

(1) Watching 1st half of video 4.1 from pronunciation course. (2) Paul Noble course - going back to familiar lessons I've gone through before, just to focus on pronouncing initials I find tricky (...

Saturday, Apr 30

Kathryn
60 minutes

Friday, Apr 29

Nats
75 minutes

(1) Children's rhymes (2) Michel Thomas course

Thursday, Apr 28

Kathryn
20 minutes

Michel Thomas course

Thursday, Apr 28

Kathryn
20 minutes

Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.

Wednesday, Apr 27

LaurenF
60 minutes

Wednesday, Apr 27

Nats
25 minutes

Wednesday, Apr 27

Nats
60 minutes

speechling basics review

Wednesday, Apr 27

penney
20 minutes

开始读 - Chinese Breeze 朋友

Wednesday, Apr 27

fay
20 minutes

Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.

Tuesday, Apr 26

LaurenF

Caroline joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Apr 26

Caroline
20 minutes

Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.

Monday, Apr 25

LaurenF
20 minutes

Finished 第三只眼睛

Monday, Apr 25

fay
100 minutes

I mainly focused on how to pronounce x, j, q vs sh, zh, ch. Starting to get the hang of it... (1) Michel Thomas course - I practiced with part of the course that I've gone through a few times be...

Sunday, Apr 24

Kathryn
15 minutes

Repeated lines from a dialogue on WordSwing, but the speed of the speech made it quite difficult to pick up the tones (I have the free version, which doesn't have the option to slow down audio).

Sunday, Apr 24

LaurenF
60 minutes

Mandarin Corner HSK 3, Reading 第三只眼睛 chapter 5

Sunday, Apr 24

fay
60 minutes

Mandarin Corner HSK 3, 第三只眼睛 chapter 6

Sunday, Apr 24

fay
40 minutes

Reading 第三只眼睛 chapter 7, 8

Sunday, Apr 24

fay
30 minutes

Reading

Sunday, Apr 24

fay
300 minutes

3h on pronunciation training, and mimicking 1h conversation tutor 1h family conversation spreader during the week (living with husband's mom for the next two weeks! A lot of practice everyday!)

Saturday, Apr 23

Jess 子晴
30 minutes

Paul Noble course

Saturday, Apr 23

Kathryn

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.penney15.5886%
2.Kathryn 15.16151%
3.Jess 子晴10.043%
4.fay8.7387%
5.LaurenF7.3573%
6.Huey4.0520%
7.Nats3.9239%
8.100days_of_mandarin3.6736%
9.Michael F.2.6726%
10.character2.020%
11.Jennifer1.010%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants27
Hours reported74.13
DurationApril 10, 2022 to
April 30, 2022 (21 days)