Participation
in Speaking challenge, April 2022



20 minutes
0.33h

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

20 minutes
0.33h

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

20 minutes
0.33h

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

20 minutes
0.33h

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

15 minutes
0.25h

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).

20 minutes
0.33h

Practised with a video on conversation starters via Mandarin Corner. It was also helpful for practising tone pairs.

20 minutes
0.33h

Did an immersive lesson on the HelloChinese app titled "Ordering at KFC".

20 minutes
0.33h

Completed an immersive lesson on the HelloChinese app titled "Checking-in at the airport".

20 minutes
0.33h

Completed an immersive lesson on the HelloChinese app called "A Call From Your Uber Driver". What I find particularly helpful with those lessons is that you get to role-play both sides of the conversation.

22 minutes
0.37h

Practised basic conversation with two FluentU videos: "Making Friends and Drinking Coffee" and "An Evening Get-together" (listened to each one twice, with pauses to repeat lines/shadow on second go).

15 minutes
0.25h

Practised with a Learn Chinese Essentials video - "Learn Chinese Conversation: Dinner at a Friend's Place".

15 minutes
0.25h

Practised dialogues via Learn Chinese Essentials videos.

30 minutes
0.5h

Practised mini dialogues.

30 minutes
0.5h

Practised basic dialogues with a video titled "100 Daily Chinese Conversations (Part 1)" via Everyday Chinese. I first repeated the lines, then shadowed the lines on the second go.

30 minutes
0.5h

I practised sentences with filler words via Shuo Shuo Chinese, and practised the dialogue "Tell Me About Yourself" from Learn Chinese Essentials.

32 minutes
0.53h

Practised the dialogue from my Mandarin Chinese for Business course.

32 minutes
0.53h

Practised sentences/ vocab related to going to the supermarket.

32 minutes
0.53h

Practised a dialogue about directions to the library via the Chinese Class 101 YouTube channel.

30 minutes
0.5h

Practised tone pairs via Yoyo Chinese on YouTube.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:73.5%
Score7.35
Rank5th
Hours reported7.35
Goal10h