Comments on: Chinese speaking challenge, March 2026

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:04:01 +0000

In reply to Janette Raven. Glad to hear you (still) find the challenges helpful! I have been a bit extra busy recently and haven't been able to join myself. I also think 21 days is good, at least if there's a challenge every month. Longer and it would be stressful to constantly have a challenge going, shorter and there wouldn't be enough time to get things done!

By: Janette Raven

Janette Raven — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:22:52 +0000

Ollie我觉得二十一天是很好的。。 21 days is a perfect length. 我做的一些Hacking Chinese 挑战。 Having completed several back to back, 我知道空时间是非常重要的。。I know that I need time to between them to breathe out and rebalance my personal practice. It also takes this time to absorb the benefits of the completed challenge and intergrate them into the overall context of life…
I have a couple goals. 我有一些目标-
的一是问题。。Work on problem issues like incorrectly produced sounds and tones in Context.
的二十朗读。。Work specifically on performance reading because am a poet. It is important that I learn to perform my own poetry in an authentic, powerful and correctly produced voice. I am only at the very beginning of this learning.
I want to build listening into my speaking practice and will use shadowing and chorusing as warm ups. I have found in the past that these really help, but have allowed this to drop out of my daily practice. So this is an amazing opportunity to rekindle this.
Thanks Ollie for this opportunity to focus. I find these challenges a really important part of my fluency adventure.

By: Chinese Learner

Chinese Learner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:25:16 +0000

Awesome initiative for Chinese speaking practice.

By: huey

huey — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:37:25 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge. I was thinking just having a 5 day gap instead of a 10 day gap. So the April challenge could be from April 5 - April 31. That would increase the number of days in each challenge by ~20%!

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:27:56 +0000

In reply to Huey.

How long would you wish them to be? The reason they are 21 days, as opposed to a month, is that it’s hard both to manage and to participate in challenges if there’s no gap between them. Sure, I could have a schedule that doesn’t match up with calendar months, but I have a feeling that would be harder to remember as it’s not very intuitive. “April speaking challenge” is easier to get an idea of what it is than “April 10th to May 24th speaking challenge”! 🙂

By: Huey

Huey — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:55:14 +0000

I wish challenges could be slightly longer than 21 days!

By: Dana 胡斯睿

Dana 胡斯睿 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:55:00 +0000

These are awesome! Just discovered your challenged – started this one just in time.