Hey, guys.
If you're an intermediate English listener
and want to improve it to advanced level?
Also, do you want to know
how to improve your speaking skills at the same time?
If you answer 'YES' to these questions,
you are watching the right video.
In this video,
I'm going to teach you the best four-step practice
that helped me kill the two birds at a stone.
I'm going to explain it step by step,
and show you how to do it,
and ask you to participate in some exercises with me,
so you can feel the real power of this practice
by the end of this short video.
I'd like to inform you
that I will start a three-month project from next week
to help you improve your listening
and speaking skills fast using this method
that I'm about to share with you in a second.
So watch this video to the end
as I will give you the details
about the project later in this video.
For this practice, I usually use two kinds of materials:
audio book and Netflix.
Today, I'd like to teach you how to do this with Netflix.
Many people recommend TV shows like "Friends."
I like that too because it's fun, and it is helpful for you
to continue your listening practice.
And you can learn from it some useful everyday expressions,
and some aspects of American life as well.
But, today, I'd like to recommend you "100 Humans."
In this show,
100 people from different backgrounds participate
in interesting experiments exploring age, sex,
happiness and other aspects of being human.
For example, there is one experiment to see
if uniforms will make people more attractive,
and if the more elite professionals like surgeons,
police officers, army officers,
pilots will be rated as more attractive.
And another example of an experiment is to determine
whether or not a man's dance skills
have any correlation with his level of virility,
in other words, sperm count.
Are you curious about that?
Watch the show.
Let's dive into the practice I was talking about,
Assuming you and I are watching the episode one
of "100 Humans."
Step one. Without subtile, watch the episode one
to catch the main idea
and to see how much you can understand it.
Step two. Without subtile, watch experiment one
at least three times.
Each episode has three or four experiments.
Step three. Turn on your Language Learning
with Netflix tool.
If you don't know what that is, watch this video.
With the tool, you must have English subtitle
and AP function, Auto Pause.
Start to listen and repeat each segment
that AP provides you.
For example, there is a segment like this:
Statistically, these numbers don't add up.
One more time.
Statistically, these numbers don't add up.
Did you get it?
When you hear this,
I want you to do these four things:
One. Assuming you got the first half of the sentence,
but not the second half of the sentence.
So with the subtitle,
confirm that you got the first half right.
Statistically, these numbers.
Make sure you got that right.
Two. Check why you didn't get that second half
of the sentence.
When you read it, you know all the words, right?
Those easy words, but you didn't get it.
Why is that?
I think that is because of this linking sound:
don't add up.
So once you understand why you didn't get that,
you must pay attention to that linking sound.
And three. Study the expressions and understand the meaning.
Let's say you didn't get the 'add up'.
Maybe you didn't catch that
because you didn't understand the meaning.
You can use this 'add up' in two different situations:
This person can't add up the numbers,
meaning this person is not able to do the math,
one plus one equals two.
Or you can say her story doesn't add up,
meaning her story doesn't make any sense.
All right, so you must understand the meaning
and then how to use this 'add up' in different situations.
Four. Record what you learned on your note.
For me, I use iPhone Notes,
so I can pull out anytime I need to study them.
Step four. Without subtile, speak while you are listening
to the sentence.
Let's practice with me with this sentence.
Please remember, you must say as soon as you hear me
but in the same way as I say.
Okay? Ready?
Okay, here we go.
Statistically, these numbers don't add up.
One more time.
Statistically, these numbers don't add up.
Good job.
So please remember with this practice four things.
One. Do this as soon as you hear.
You go only one step behind, okay?
So when I say statistically,
you say statistically right away.
Two. Accent.
When I say statistically, where is the accent?
In the middle, right?
And you must do the same.
Three. Intonation, the flow.
Did you get it?
So it goes like statistically, these numbers don't add up.
So you must go with the flow.
That is called intonation, so you must learn that too.
And four. Please make sure
that you do the same pronunciation.
When I say these numbers don't add up,
I didn't say don't add up.
So copy the pronunciation exactly the same way
as I said.
And you may ask how long I should do this practice?
I like to say you should do this practice
until automatically you memorize this experiment one
by repeating this practice.
And then, move on to experiment two.
As I mentioned earlier in this video,
I'm not going to leave you to practice this by yourself.
From next week,
I'll teach you some vocabularies, expressions,
pronunciation, grammar, et cetera,
that you must know from the first part
of this experiment one and ask you to practice that part
until you see me in the following week.
And then I will cover the next part of the experiment one,
and then the next and then the next for three months.
So basically, I'll go with you
to help you improve your English listening
and speaking skills much faster than doing it by yourself
in a much more efficient way.
So I hope, if possible,
you can have any sort of English score,
such as TOEIC or TOEFL, whatever, by next week,
so you can compare that score with the result
that you will get after this three-month project.
I bet you'll be very much amazed with the result.
Okay, this is it for today.
I hope you find this video helpful for your study
and you can participate in this three-month project
from next week.
Please leave me a comment below and let me know
what you think about this video
and this three-month project idea.
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Thank you again and I look forward
to seeing you next week.