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

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

Saturday, Apr 23

LaurenF
50 minutes

(1) Michel Thomas course. (2) Watched video 3.5 from the pronunciation course again.

Friday, Apr 22

Kathryn
20 minutes

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

Friday, Apr 22

LaurenF
60 minutes

speechling basics

Friday, Apr 22

penney
25 minutes

(1) Pronunciation course - watched 1st half of video 3.5 series with x. (2) Michel Thomas course.

Friday, Apr 22

Kathryn
90 minutes

HSK5 class

Thursday, Apr 21

100days_of_mandarin
20 minutes

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

Thursday, Apr 21

LaurenF

taquagad joined the challenge!

Thursday, Apr 21

taquagad
75 minutes

speechling basics

Thursday, Apr 21

penney
5 minutes

Paul Noble course

Thursday, Apr 21

Kathryn
20 minutes

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 conve...

Wednesday, Apr 20

LaurenF
30 minutes

Wednesday, Apr 20

Nats
30 minutes

Wednesday, Apr 20

Nats
30 minutes

Wednesday, Apr 20

Nats
90 minutes

speechling basics ; mimicking

Wednesday, Apr 20

penney
60 minutes

reading flash cards outloud, sending messages on tandem

Wednesday, Apr 20

Huey
65 minutes

(1) Michel Thomas. (2) Watched again pronunciation course sh, zh, ch, r.

Tuesday, Apr 19

Kathryn
22 minutes

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).

Tuesday, Apr 19

LaurenF
10 minutes

Restaurant

Tuesday, Apr 19

100days_of_mandarin
120 minutes

Italki ♡

Tuesday, Apr 19

100days_of_mandarin
30 minutes

Continued reading 第三只眼睛 through chapter 4

Tuesday, Apr 19

fay
70 minutes

speechling basics

Tuesday, Apr 19

penney
45 minutes

Michel Thomas course

Monday, Apr 18

Kathryn
15 minutes

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

Monday, Apr 18

LaurenF
45 minutes

Michel Thomas course

Monday, Apr 18

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)