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
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fay
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fay
(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...
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Kathryn
Practised with Learn Chinese Essentials and Chinese Class 101 conversation videos.
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LaurenF
(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 (...
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Kathryn
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Nats
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Kathryn
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Kathryn
Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.
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LaurenF
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Nats
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Nats
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penney
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fay
Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.
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LaurenF
Caroline joined the challenge!
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Caroline
Mandarin Corner HSK 3 sentences, with an exercise where you have to recall an English sentence in Mandarin.
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LaurenF
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fay
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...
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Kathryn
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).
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LaurenF
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fay
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fay
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fay
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fay
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!)
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Jess 子晴
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Kathryn
Leaderboard
Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
1. | ![]() | penney | 15.58 | |
2. | ![]() | Kathryn | 15.16 | |
3. | ![]() | Jess 子晴 | 10.0 | |
4. | ![]() | fay | 8.73 | |
5. | ![]() | LaurenF | 7.35 | |
6. | ![]() | Huey | 4.05 | |
7. | ![]() | Nats | 3.92 | |
8. | ![]() | 100days_of_mandarin | 3.67 | |
9. | ![]() | Michael F. | 2.67 | |
10. | ![]() | character | 2.0 | |
11. | ![]() | Jennifer | 1.0 |
Link | https://www.hackingchinese.... |
Participants | 27 |
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Hours reported | 74.13 |
Duration | April 10, 2022 to April 30, 2022 (21 days) |