Any Online Chinese Learning Challenges?

[Nina_pf]

Hi! Personally, I find it really fun and motivating to learn something when other people are doing it at the same time (and there is a little bit of competition involved too haha). Does anyone know about any active Chinese learning challenges people can participate in simultaneously online?

[NanJingDongLu]

This is a great question. I don't personally have any challenges I'm working on, but another user @tsitsi has been keeping a blog on this site of their learning journey from Day 1 of learning Chinese, and was able to pass an HSK1 mock test in 11 days with a total of around 20 hours of Chinese learning. That could be a fun goal to try to match/beat.

 

Here's the blog. https://www.chinese-forums.com/blogs/blog/146-hsk-challenge/page/2/

And the first entry: https://www.chinese-forums.com/blogs/entry/1199-first-entry-day-1-to-day-7/

[amytheorangutan]

I've participated in a few Hacking Chinese Challenges in the past. They have specific challenges each month like reading, writing, listening, tones etc. You can log what you do that day for the challenge and how much time you spend on it each day. I find the daily check in actually helps me to be consistent because I just feel like I have to do the check in and therefore I have to do the exercise even if I don't feel like it or too tired etc I'd still do 15-20 mins of reading or listening etc. 

[Nina_pf]

30 minutes ago, NanJingDongLu said:

and was able to pass an HSK1 mock test in 11 days with a total of around 20 hours of Chinese learning

 

Wow, that sounds amazing!! Great job @tsitsi  I didn't think it could be done so fast... Awesome!

[Nina_pf]

7 minutes ago, amytheorangutan said:

I've participated in a few Hacking Chinese Challenges in the past. They have specific challenges each month like reading, writing, listening, tones etc. You can log what you do that day for the challenge and how much time you spend on it each day. I find the daily check in actually helps me to be consistent because I just feel like I have to do the check in and therefore I have to do the exercise even if I don't feel like it or too tired etc I'd still do 15-20 mins of reading or listening etc.

 

Thanks for the tip! And yeah, I especially like it when there are daily check-ups too, it holds me accountable haha. I'll check it out!

[tsitsi]

4 hours ago, Nina_pf said:

Wow, that sounds amazing!! Great job @tsitsi  I didn't think it could be done so fast... Awesome!

 

Yeah I'm waiting for my HSK 2 and HSK 3 results and I'll write a proper write up... then begin the next challenge, I learn easier/better/faster with competition and tight deadlines!

[alantin]

23 hours ago, Nina_pf said:

Does anyone know about any active Chinese learning challenges people can participate in simultaneously online?

 

iTalki does those. https://www.italki.com/languagechallenge

[Nina_pf]

1 hour ago, alantin said:

iTalki does those. https://www.italki.com/languagechallenge

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

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