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练习口语的问题挑战，第23天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 23. 

https://youtu.be/wntHHFplXWw

练习口语的问题挑战，第22天。
30 day speaking challenge, Day 22. 

https://youtu.be/ZH4Lb7aUzt8

练习口语的问题挑战，第21天。
30 day speaking challenge, Day 21. 

https://youtu.be/PzGQHuVR3lk

练习口语的问题挑战，第20天。
30 day speaking challenge, Day 20. 

https://youtu.be/FvVUuIVkIIs

练习口语的问题挑战，第19天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 19.

https://youtu.be/EZPYakw98lc

练习口语的问题挑战，第18天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 18. 

https://youtu.be/HT3NQW_CaKA

练习口语的问题挑战，第17天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 17. 

https://youtu.be/mWWUTVN93ZU

练习口语的问题挑战，第16天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 16. 

https://youtu.be/bWMfLw5UQRs

练习口语的问题挑战，第15天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 15. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/MvhwDqq6fx0?feature=share

https://youtu.be/RgP7rkhIW_w

练习口语的问题挑战，第14天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 14. 

怎么称呼您？ How should I address you?

https://youtu.be/BcuolO6A-Ag

练习口语的问题挑战，第13天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 13. 

什么让你紧张？What makes you nervous?

https://youtube.com/shorts/sup6hTC0qXY?feature=share

练习口语的问题挑战，第12天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 12. 

Out for beers, no time to make a long video

练习口语的问题挑战，第11天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 11.

https://youtu.be/EpWgVrFHDXk

I went a little longer with this one, and tried to go a little more "free speaking", this was the third take. A little easy because of the topic.

你觉得好朋友的定义是什么？What do you think is the definition of a good friend?

练习口语的问题挑战，第10天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 10. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/TR3A7gklLoY?feature=share

你有什么怪僻吗？Do you have any strange habits?

练习口语的问题挑战，第九天。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 9.

https://youtube.com/shorts/VtgY9k4Xdng?feature=share

练习中文口语挑战：第八天
30 days speaking practice：Day 8

https://youtube.com/shorts/NuuYPXs6-mQ?feature=share

So far this has been an excellent practice activity. Honestly, it's hard to film myself speaking and every evening I'd rather not do it. However, every time after it's done, I'm glad I 坚持. I practice it several times, I try to put in some grammar that I don't use enough,  try to push myself to go faster, it's good exercise. I've had some corrections and feedback from native speakers on WeChat. Will definitely carry this out for 30 days.

练习中文口语挑战：第七天 30 days speaking practice：Day 7

https://youtu.be/GTaKZWSpaTA

你老家的气候怎么样？What's your hometown's climate like?

练习中文口语挑战：第六天 30 days speaking practice：Day 6

https://youtube.com/shorts/jvVQFuq033o?feature=share

怎样给岳父岳母留下好印象？How would make a good impression on your in laws?

第五天练习口语的问题挑战。 30 day speaking challenge, Day 5.

https://youtu.be/K04YvTEVi1k

https://youtube.com/shorts/JI5jioE-4e4?feature=share

https://youtube.com/shorts/44DG2WHVK5c?feature=share

I made a video practicing for the speaking test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJR0dg2xiWk

I really enjoyed practicing part 2 and 3 and think I will do more of it in the future, whether specifically for the test or even just as something to practice talking about. I did two hours of it with a tutor on Italki last night and the time flew by. Seems that although I "know" all the vocab and grammar of Hsk 4, I don't readily produce it🤔.

OK, this is barely cooking, but so delicious. Had this home 烧烤 a few days ago. The beef was sent frozen and vacuum sealed as a gift from my wife's friend in Guangzhou. She sent it to us to have during the impending BJ lockdown...which never happened - hooray! 

I was reminded by the "2022 goals" thread that I had listed a goal of completing all the Chinese Breeze level 2 and 3 readers. Up to now, I had only completed 3 of 7 of 二级 and hadn't cracked one open in 6 months. So last week I banged out the remaining 4 books of 二级. The nice thing was that I was able to read them extremely easily. I remember a year ago I found them very slow going. Now I was able to read them in one sitting of about 1.5 hours each and not looking up anything , just glancing at a few footnoted items. I also rarely had to re-read a sentence to get the meaning. I put that down to reading DuChinese intermediate every day and just general improvement.

I also ordered (and received next day - 京东谢谢！）four of the five level 3 books and will start in on them next week.

This summer I've been enjoying an extra bit of 扎啤 / draft beer. Something about draft always tastes better than bottles and I like buying local stuff. It's pretty popular in Beijing to sell these bags（or sometimes canisters) of draft beer by waimai 外卖 or walking in the shop directly. They add  pressure to the bag before sealing, so it arrives fresh, bubbly and cold within about a half hour. The price is right too. 1.5 - 2 liters for around 17rmb for Beijing/qingdao draft, 35-50 for white or wheat beer, 70-100 for Ipa. 

This one is wheat from a place called URbrew and made in 河北:

Standard Beijing draft and Qingdao( I was drinking the Qingdao during a zoom call with some friends back home and they thought it was hilarious:

My favorite hands down, a beautiful beer, ipa, from 叁金叁 whatever that is(?)  85kuai for about 5 pints:

Another wheat beer that's very popular, 泰山 Taishan from Shandong, pretty nice fresh wheat beer, 60kuai for 2 liters:

I just received this yesterday cold-chain shipped from the city of 青岛 , no idea yet how it tastes, but 40,000 people have ordered it on taboo and positive reviews, on sale for 28kuai for 2 liters, I had to get one:

Next one I'll prob try is this one: