Watch this video and learn the number one secret to help you understand fast English
speakers hey friends, teacher Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in
English thanks for joining me on another video and if it is your first time around here,
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you don't miss any of my weekly videos and watch this video until the end because I am
going to give you a bonus yes I am going to give you two very effective exercises that
will help you improve your listening skills but here we go one very common complaint I
get from my students is teacher Americans speak very fast I don't know what to do I
try to listen to everything they say but I can't it is so hard does this happen to you?
probably, right?
yes, native speakers may speak a little fast but what do we need to do to understand fast
English speakers, not just american speakers but Australian, Canadian, British speakers
there is something we need to do and many times we don't learn how to do it and the
number ONE rule you must know if you want to improve your listening skills and listen
and understand fast English speakers is Listen LIKE a NATIVE Speaker What do you mean Priscila,
I am not a native speaker how am I gonna listen like a native speaker I know this may sound
tricky, but I'll explain I promise when we're studying English many times we don't learn
how to listen we just receive instructions that we need to understand everything they
say everything we listen to and that's not how it works consequently, since you started
studying English you have been trained you have been practicing "understanding" everything
so when you listen to a movie when you watch a movieand you listen to the speakers or when
you listen to a podcast and you don't understand everything you get frustrated and the first
reaction is I failed I am not good at listening my listening sucks and that's the problem
you have been trained with the concept with the idea that you need to understand every
single word in order to understand a conversation and that's not how it works that's why the
number one rule is listen like a native and how do you do that?
How do native speakers listen?
first they don't listen to every word nope, in conversations they are not focused on every
single word you say, they pay attention to the stressed words you say that's why intonation
is so important in English and that's what native speakers do they focus on stressed
words key words many times they don't listen to everything you say when i say everything
I mean every single word they listen to the words that are important most of the times
native speakers emphasize the words that you need to understand "what's your name?"
ok so here I am emphasizing name what's your name, name is being emphasized because it
is the most important word of the sentence many times a student only understands name
and maybe what and because they didn't understand the middle they ask me to repeat the question
because they want to understand everything but that's they key you don't need to understand
everything you neeed to understand the key words and learning to recognize the key words
is what you need to do from now on how do you get better at listening, Priscila?
because, ok got it, Ineed to understand key words and stressed words, words that are important
in a conversation but what exactly do I need to do?hmm, I have two suggestions for you
the first one is a website called ESL lab in this website you're going to find native
speakers conversations in English to help you practice your listening skills but not
only your listening skills, your listening comprehension there are exercises asking questions
about the audios you listened to ok and the good thing about these audios is that they
are separated by levels, so you have audios for beginners, you have audios for intermediate
speakers, advanced speakers and that way you have different kinds of challenges ok Ilistened
to several audios and the speed is really good it is really good for you to practice
listening to native speakers in an exercise context to practice your listening comprehension
after you listen to the audio there are some questions about it that will help you check
what you understood so this is a very nice way to help you practice the number one rule
because you will see that in these audios many times you won't be able to understand
all the words but it is ok as long as you understand the main ideas and key words the
second website I love using and I love recommending it to my students actually it was a student
who recommended this website to me I checked it out I loved it I have been using it with
all my clients Lyrics training this is a website for you to listen to music in English but
not just listen, as I said put it into action, ok exercise, just listening is not really
an exercise you have to do something about it so in this website you can choose a song
then you can choose your level basic beginner internediate, advanced, and then you will
have to complete the song as you listen, ok so you start listening to the song and then
there are some gaps you have to complete this is a nice exercise to do because it helps
you listen to stressed words listen to important words in a song so these two exercises combined
will help you change your mentality, your mindset of understanding fast English speakers
because the key is to understand important words key words and not everything they say
because that's not how it words you have to focus on what is important on what is relevant
and that way you will become a better listener and you will understand fast English speakers
more easily.
Thank you so much friends and I will see you next time, bye!