Resources and Recs #3

[starandrea]

Here is a planning post, sneaking through in disguise as a post for recommendations!

In service to said disguise, any fun discoveries or neat experiences this week? Anything you've given up on recently? (All of my 2024 resolutions? Just kidding; apparently I only made one, which was to study Chinese. So far so good I guess!)

Someone recommended another leveled/graded/slow/comprehensible input podcast to me this week, which is great because I do love my comprehensible input. I'm particularly enjoying Chinese Podcast with Shenglan because it includes such great episodes as Discussion on Boy's Love in China: Gender Awareness and Misogyny.

And here's the planning part of the post: I'm also enjoying chinesestudy! I'd like to keep doing it next month, but I was thinking a new activity would be fun in February. Instead of question-and-answer writing prompts, what about daily word games?

(Can I think of or find 28 Chinese word games? Probably not, but we could do anagrams or word dragon 7 times each and that would be half the month right there. Plus it would be fun to have some Lunar New Year prompts; I'm sure cute spring couplets could cover us for days.)

Feel free to weigh in if you like!

Poll #30530 chinesestudy in february

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

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this is just a fun poll; no commitment is intended or implied 💕

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I like open-ended questions.
6 (75.0%)

I like multiple-choice questions.
5 (62.5%)

I like coming up with a word or two.
5 (62.5%)

I like writing complete sentences.
7 (87.5%)

I like reading.
6 (75.0%)

I like unrealistically large dragons.
7 (87.5%)

I like realistically large dragons.
7 (87.5%)

Sparkles!
6 (75.0%)

Comments

[elidelio]

Oh that's a neat podcast, definitely going to check it out! The podcast I listen to most is Chinese Pod, it's also level graded and I appreciate that it has a lot of general-life topics, most eps are also fairly short so I can just pop them into my podcast queue and listen while I work or do other stuff. They also have their podcast feeds available on any podcast app like spotify divided by into levels as Beginner (Newbie+Elementary) and Intermediate (Intermediate+Upper-intermediate), and I find their intermediate lessons to be quite good examples of more natural sounding dialogues since they get different voices that speak in a variety of Mandarin accents.

I also really recommend Grace Mandarin Chinese because she has some really good lessons, and she does her video graphics in both Simplified chinese + pinyin and Traditional chinese + zhuyin since she's from Taiwan!

Also idk how good I'd be at word games but it sounds fun ♪(´▽｀)

[starandrea]

Oh wow, I'm with you on Chinese Pod, I've listened to so many episodes while driving! Side note, I don't know if you listen to any You Can Learn Chinese? John Pasden from Chinese Pod is one of the cohosts! :)

[elidelio]

oh nice! that one is on my TBL list but I haven't gotten around to it haha, good to know I'll be hearing a familiar voice :D

[tinny]

as for games, i still sometimes like to do the Chinese wordle.

https://handle.antfu.me/

(There are others, and if you google for Chinese wordle, you can find quite a few, but for some reason this one never turns up and it's the one i like best.)