Aug. 20th, 2022

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It is now less than a year until the 2023 Worldcon.

I've started using HelloChinese, which is giving me speaking and listening practice. The latter is what's giving me doubts right now. It features a couple clips per lesson of what appear to be random Chinese people on the street saying a sentence which you then have to transcribe. About half the time they speak nice and clearly for the camera. The other half of the time, they speak in what I presume is a normal manner, which is to say... super fast and mumbly. I am developing horrible doubts about ever being to understand streaming Worldcon panels in Chinese.

Still, I trudge onward. At my current rate, I'll probably finish the main sequence of Duolingo lessons in early-mid November. I'm going through HelloChinese extra fast thanks to the overlap in vocabulary and probably will finish its main sequence right around the end of this year. Then there's a lot of extra content to explore, especially in HelloChinese, which I will probably get the paid version of at some point.

I've started looking around for video or audio content in Chinese about science and science fiction-- I'm a long way from having the vocabulary to understand it, but it supposedly helps to just get used to hearing a language at length. I'm sure hoping it does.

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