Comments on: Chinese pronunciation challenge, October 2024

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:45:47 +0000

In reply to Janette. Sounds good! My pronunciation course contains a lot on tone pairs! Some of it is freely available here too.

By: Janette

Janette — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:01:39 +0000

In general- apply the Forking Path Decision model throughout the Pronunciation challenge 20 days- in favour of selecting pronunciation activities over other unproductive choices
Be curious, have fun, explore.
No missed days.
Shadowing, chorusing, reading a transcript aloud with annotation to drill down on inaccuracies, walk and talk.
Revise, restudy tone collocations (tone pairs mostly) …
Complete and restudy Outlier Linguistics pronunciation course. Plus a couple of other study docs I have bookmarked..
And get feedback in lessons with tutors.
I kind of want to pack all this into about 3 hours a day, and maybe allow another hour for more relaxed shadowing. I want to protect my energy because it is also singing season and that takes a lot of time and energy, while having huge benefits for listening and speaking.
Thanks Ollie for this opportunity. It is really appreciated. Do you have anything in your blog on the collocations (tone pairs/ trisyllabics etc). I would be really happy to add that to my study during the challenge.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:10:22 +0000

In reply to Cassandra. Sounds good! Setting a low per-day goal for things like pronunciation probably works better. You can always keep going if it's interesting or you get into it!

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:55:15 +0000

I am adjusting my pronunciation goal. My goal is to work on pronunciation for about 5 minutes every day for at least 2 hours this month. I’m especially focusing on the yu and pinyin sounds with u. Each day, I’ll shadow a Youtube pinyin practice video.

By: 诗姬

诗姬 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:37:46 +0000

I will be listening to & repeating Slow and Clear Chinese on YouTube every day for 20 minutes. Every segment has a slow-speed dialogue then a regular-speed dialogue. It is accompanied by 汉子, Pinyin & English, which is just right for me.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 06:55:10 +0000

In reply to 韋浩. Great! Also good that you commented here so I can update the article to be relevant for 2023, thanks! :)

By: 韋浩

韋浩 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:28:15 +0000

I will be reading every sentence from my daily Anki studies out loud. I should always be doing this but I am too lazy.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:14:24 +0000

In reply to Katriena. These are always worthy goals and worthwhile activities, almost regardless of level! You can essentially not go wrong with more mimicking, except maybe if you mimic something most native speakers would agree is weird or just plain wrong, but the likelihood of that is very low. :) Good luck!

By: Katriena

Katriena — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:36:23 +0000

I’m still at a pretty basic level, so my goal is to work on more natural-sounding pronunciation by revisiting the audio from my workbooks and other sources, as well as shadowing dialogue made for learners and native-speaker dialogue from Chinese dramas & talk shows (I have some specific clips picked out for their vocabulary).

By: Rattigan

Rattigan — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:31:58 +0000

I’m going to wotk on my weakest spots, specifically my “qi” and “yu” sounds as well as the fourth tone and it’s combination with other tones.