Hi, guys, I have been sharing with you
some tips and techniques to improve
your English listening skills in the last two weeks.
Today, I'd like to share with you
one of the most effective practices
that will hep you understand fast English conversations.
Let's get started.
I'll give you two exercises to do.
Let's assume I am watching
a short YouTube video for this practice.
Exercise one. Listen in fast speed.
Turn off your subtitle,
and then click Settings,
right next to CC, down here, closed caption.
And you should find Playback.
Click that one and then select 1.25 or 1.5 for fast speed.
After that, please follow these three simple steps.
Step one. Play the video.
Just listen and get a sense,
just general sense about the content.
Step two. Play one paragraph or two,
two to three times and write it down.
Step three. Play it again
and then fill in the blanks you missed.
Replay this as many times as you want.
Exercise two. Listen in normal speed.
This time, click Settings, Playback speed, and Normal.
After that, follow these three steps.
Step one. Play the paragraphs you just had in exercise one.
And then fill in the blanks, if you still have any.
You must feel, this time, much slower
than when you heard it first time, right?
Step two. Turn on your subtitle.
Play the paragraphs
and see if you have written down all correctly.
Step three. Turn off your subtitle again.
Play the paragraphs and make sure you can understand
every single word as you listen.
Repeat this as many times as you want.
Once you have done these steps,
move on to the next paragraph.
The key idea here is to put yourself listening to English
in faster speed than normal and get used to it.
This may sound too simple to you,
but if you do this practice,
this way, everyday for one or two months,
you will start understanding
fast English conversations.
You will even ask to native speakers,
"Excuse me, would you please speak faster?"
To continue this practice,
you may use my videos or other YouTube videos
or News like CNN or audio book or podcast.
In order to improve your ability
to understand fast English conversations,
you also need to expand your vocabulary.
How to do it?
Just follow these four simple steps.
One. Create your vocabulary note.
Two. Record new vocabularies you learn every day.
Make sure you put those vocabularies in sentence forms.
Three. Study old ones first
and then new ones for the day,
so you can build up vocabularies every day.
Four. Read out loud when you study,
so you can make your mouth and ears
become familiar with those pronunciations.
I hope you learned something new from this video.
If you have, please let me know in the comment section.
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Thank you very much.
See you next week.