Do you have some problems in English listening?
Are you an intermediate English listener?
Have you tried many English listening practices so far,
but failed improving your listening skills?
If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions,
you are watching the right video.
I'm going to share with you the most effective
English listening method
that you can put into practice right away.
Let's talk about the reasons what makes
your English listening so difficult.
I think there are three main reasons.
One. Silent letters.
For example, it was Halloween two days ago,
I saw many ghosts walking around.
Let's check out this ghost.
Native speakers write it g-h-o-s-t, but pronounce it ghost,
without h sound.
This is called silent letters.
Two. Linking sound. For example, put it in.
Native speakers do not read it, put it in,
but put it in.
There are two t's in here, right?
And the t changes to r sound, put it in,
And three. Speed.
In a sentence or a paragraph, of course,
there are many of these silent letters and linking words
but native speakers talk them fast.
You also need to check if you are doing
the right listening practice.
Ask these questions to yourself.
Question one. Am I listening or hearing?
Some people say you must turn on the TV or
radio all day long.
But it is not listening but just hearing
and the hearing does not work for you.
You must do active listening, which means you must pay 100%
of your attention to listening when you practice.
Question two. Do I study with audio or video?
Watching movies and TV shows could be good for you
to continue your listening practice because they're fun
but the motion pictures might distract your attention,
especially if you are in low-intermediate level.
So, I'd like to recommend you to start with audio
such as audio book and podcast.
So once you get used to it and become
a high-intermediate level listener,
then you can move on to videos.
Question three. Do I practice everyday or once a week?
Some people say, "I am too busy during the weekdays
so, I do my practice on the weekends
for five hours, six hours"
But I like to recommend you do it more often,
every day if possible, even only for 20 to 30 minutes a day.
Now, let me teach you how to listen to your study material,
step by step.
Let's assume I am listening to a podcast episode.
Step one. Listen to the whole episode.
Just try to get some main ideas.
It is okay for you not to catch everything.
Step two. Focus on each sentence.
If you don't catch your sentence, read English transcript
and then listen again, at least three times.
You must be able to write down correctly as you listen,
even though you don't understand the meaning of them.
Step three. Focus on individual word.
Make sure you catch individual words and understand it.
If needed, you can look up the dictionary in your language.
Step four. Listen again the whole episode.
This time, put down your english transcript and dictionary.
Just listen and repeat until you can understand everything
as you listen.
I know doing this practice is not easy
but please remember the learning curve goes like this,
not like that.
So, when you get to a point, here,
when you accumulate enough listening practice hours,
it goes up.
Until then, please be patient.
I hope you can find some time to do this practice every day
and your listening skills will be surely upgraded
to the next level soon.
Thank you for watching.
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