Participation
in Listening challenge, January 2021



50 minutes
0.83h

Final report! I was so busy with the pronunciation course that I didn't have time to download and listen to more 李永乐老师. I still finished a sizeable proportion of his content on YT; I'll work my way through the rest later (maybe next challenge?). I will also write something about this, probably an article in the next month or so. God job everybody who participated in the challenge! Thanks for playing! :)

100 minutes
1.67h

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30 minutes
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20 minutes
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40 minutes
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100 minutes
1.67h

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140 minutes
2.33h

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20 minutes
0.33h

Busiest day in a while, got almost no listening done. 李永乐老师.

50 minutes
0.83h

Very busy day today, so only got 20 minutes of listening done. 李永乐老师 as usual! Will I be able to listen to every single video on his channel before the end of the challenge? We'll see! :)

Adding 30 minutes I listened before falling asleep.

That would a challenge by itself! Hahaha

:)

90 minutes
1.5h

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60 minutes
1.0h

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180 minutes
3.0h

12k run with my friend 李永乐老师, plus some listening during the day.

60 minutes
1.0h

李永乐老师

80 minutes
1.33h

More 李永乐老师!

100 minutes
1.67h

More 李永乐老师! Mostly relistening to episodes I've downloaded to my phone while running (12k). Cold, snowy but quite nice.

100 minutes
1.67h

More 李永乐老师! Actually, I'm not sure how many I listened to, but it's more than an hour and less than two. Let's say 80 minutes! I particularly liked this one about the Fermi Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwa0_nE9H7A

+40 more later in the evening

160 minutes
2.67h

More 李永乐老师, working my way through the 感悟人生系列 playlist, almost done in fact: (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrDt87s8A3pCbRuOaW8FF76qxNZpf90B).

80 minutes
1.33h

More 李永乐老师, working my way through the 感悟人生系列 playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrDt87s8A3pCbRuOaW8FF76qxNZpf90B).

150 minutes
2.5h

Watched or listened to five 李永乐老师 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSs4A6HYKmHA2MG_0z-F0xw) videos, including:

学霸为啥总不学习?寒门为啥总出贵子?帅哥为啥都是渣男?
5G到底是什么?它能成为创造未来的新科技吗?
996工作制是奋斗还是剥削?你该不该加班?李永乐老师讲机会成本
+ Some relistening before sleep

You really need to look for content with more words per minute! :)

I really like the content of 李永乐老师, but he speaks really really fast! Like, that's too many words per minute and very technic at times. It gets difficult to process haha

Whoa! I've never heard anyone speak that fast, not even on China Radio International.

Interesting note - the guy speak fast, but the pronunciation is quite clear.

Yeah, almost every word is actually pronounced and I find it relatively comfortable to listen to. I choose episodes that don't have a lot of math, because since I listen only, they would be pretty hard to understand without seeing what he's doing. The first one mentioned here, 学霸为啥总不学习?寒门为啥总出贵子?帅哥为啥都是渣男?, was a lot easier after watching it. The others were not a problem, though, work without the video. I also appreciate the fact that his explanations of various concepts are admirably pedagogical. He at least used to be a teacher at a very prestigious school in Beijing, but being a teacher myself, I'm constantly reminded of how well-composed and pedagogical some of his explanations are. Naturally, they are twice as fast as they should be, but apart from that. :)

I tried it yesterday out of curiosity (and understood almost nothing as I'm roughly at an intermediate level) but I totally agree that he has a good enounciation. Every sentence felt as if I could understand it ! On the other hand, I'm not used to handwritten chinese, and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to read what he writes!

Yeah, this is not very beginner or intermediate friendly, really. He does speak fairly clearly and his videos are very well planned, but he speaks very fast and unless you're a very advanced student, there will be many, many new words. You don't have to read his handwriting, though, just turn on the subtitles! There's also a browser extension called Language Learning with YouTube you can check out. I'm going to write something about this once the challenge is over, so stay tuned!




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:135.0%
Score27.0
Rank14th
Hours reported27.0
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Goal20h