爬中文山

I also messaged him and he replied to me!

 

 

I got to episode 60 or so a number of years ago. I put a lot of time into it (I was a beginner).

 

 I ripped the audio and isolated each individual sentence. I had the dialogue in srt (Chinese and English) from somewhere and matched the audio to the written sentence. Sometimes the text in the .srt was not actually what was spoken in the dialogue. If I wasn’t sure, I asked some Chinese chat groups for confirmation.  Some particularly hard bits proved to be hard for native speakers to understand as well! I remember one person helpfully asking his Beijing wife what was being said and she gave the answer immediately. It was useful in helping me understand not all native speakers of Chinese understand other native speakers of Chinese. 
 

The sketches were quite short and in manageable sizes. I really liked the way a repeat of the sentence was made with Charlotte saying the same sentence in standard mandarin.

 

It was hard work but I got a lot out of hearing the same sentences repeatedly.