Today I'm going to show you how you can improve your English listening skills
fast to help you understand English native speakers much better and much
more easily
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV your personal English
language coach by the end of this lesson you will learn some great and effective
ways that you can improve your English listening skills fast also if you're a
beginner at English watch to the end because I've got some special advice for
you now ask yourself a very important question how much time do you spend
listening to English and practicing your English listening skills 15 minutes a
day once a week maybe a couple of films a month now students that I've taught in
the past rarely actually listen to very much English outside of their class so
if you're not listening to very much you're not alone
but how are you going to improve your English listening skills if you don't
practice so you need to start practising only by practicing listening will you
improve it's like any skill or sport really the more practice you do the
better you'll become footballers for example only get brilliant at scoring
goals by hours and hours and hours of practice well that's all very well I
hear you say but is there a way to really quickly improve your English
listening if you don't have much time yes there is supercharge your English
listening abilities with my top success tips and here they are oh and before I
do this don't forget to subscribe to this channel and click the bell so you
don't miss out on any of my videos and lessons so success tip number one get
motivated and get started there's only one way that you won't improve your
English listening skills and that's if you don't practice enough listening
watching a few movies won't get you supercharged
and 15 minutes a day is not enough okay so what do you do how much should you
practice and how are you gonna fit that into your busy life well the first thing
to do is to be realistic so if you can't fit two hours into your
day to do English listening then don't start don't start and then stop because
you'll lose all your motivation there are two things you must do to be
successful one listen to a lot of native speaker English every day and to do it
for a long period of time my solution is to fit English into your day don't add
it on to your day which brings me to my second success tip my advice on exactly
how to do this success tip to make sure your phone always has English listening
material on it so wherever you are whatever you're doing you'll always have
English to listen to in any of your spare moments and trust me those spare
moments will add up to quite a long time so download as much English listening
material onto your phone as possible podcasts are perfect success tip number
three turn down time into listening time so your down time is when you're not
doing anything else very important and you can use that for listening so you
can listen to these audios when you're not really doing anything that means you
have to think so when you're waiting for a bus or a train
or waiting for someone on the corner picking your children up from school
doing housework these are ideal times to do some listening so they actually
become part of your day they're not added on to it and that's the secret to
finding more time in your day so that way you'll find it easy to even listen
to a couple of hours of English every day the other really important thing is
to get into the habit of listening now success tip number four listen to
something that you really enjoy now let's think about it let's say you
really enjoy cooking are you more likely to want to listen to an audio about
recipes or things about food from all around the world or are you going to
want to listen to English language listening exercises' from a
textbook of course you'll listen to the cookery
ones won't you so you'll enjoy it much more so you'll listen much more and
it'll feel much more relaxing and you're much more likely to remember the
vocabulary and the sound and the rhythm of the sentences YouTube is a great
place to find lots of entertaining English speaking materials and you'll
get lots of different accents of English from lots of different native speaking
English countries too which will really help your listening subscribe to
channels that you really enjoy it costs nothing and you get notified by all the
new videos that are produced you can start by subscribing to my channel if
you haven't already done it so if you want to learn about British
culture as well as that language my channel has some great videos all about
and it's all done in received pronunciation English by me I'll put all
the links underneath for you to have a look at them you'll learn about lots of
different things like travelling in Britain what we eat what we do in our
free time of course you can watch films too but be really careful with these
because if you don't understand the vocabulary it can get really frustrating
anyway now for some special advice for those
who are not at least intermediate in their English as I promised earlier
special advice for beginners just start listening to a little English start
small don't try to listen to too much keep
feeling good about your English by doing a little but often 10 or 15 minutes a
day then as you get better you can do more but don't stop being a beginner is
great because most of what you hear is new and you'll improve really fast so
enjoy now for the English teachers amongst you I'd love to help you by
giving you some ideas on how you can use listening activities in the classroom in
a fun way if you're interested in this please put
the comment below so that I can hear from you and get your ideas oh and make
sure you go and watch all my other videos and so that you can build your
English fluency and improve your English language really fast in a fun way so I
hope you really enjoyed this video and if you have please share it with your
friends and like and comment and enjoy your English I'll see you next time bye