Hi everyone.
If you want to start learning English,
and improve your English listening skills,
you found the right video.
In this video, I'll teach you
the most effective 5 step English listening practice
for you beginners.
I will also teach you how to use Netflix
to improve your English listening skills
to the next level as quickly as possible.
Let's get started.
When I say, I love you, you can understand me, right?,
regardless of your English listening skills.
What do you think is the reason?
I think it is mainly because of these 3 reasons:
One. It is short.
It has only 3 words.
I. Love. you.
Two. You heard it so many times.
From your parents, from your kids, from lovers,
from the movies, everywhere.
Three. You know what that means.
I applied this to create my English listening practice
and used it in my class for beginner students
to improve their English listening skills.
It worked beautifully.
That's why I wanted to share this proven practice
with you today.
Before we start English listening practice,
we need to select the right study material.
I'd like to recommend animation movies from Netflix,
for example, Disney movies.
Because they are well-made and fun,
so you can keep working hard.
For intermediate listeners,
I usually recommend audiobooks or podcast,
but for you as a beginner,
you'll find them a little bit boring to keep working hard.
Also, Disney movies, Disney family movies contain easy
and appropriate English vocabulary for beginners.
And with this program called Language Learning with Netflix,
you can have 3 great functions
to help you practice your English listening skills.
One. Subtitle in English
and maybe in your mother language too.
Two. AP function.
Automatic pause playback at the end of every subtitle.
And three. Dictionary, so you can quickly understand
the words in your mother language.
If you want to know how to install the program
on your computer and how to use it,
watch this video.
Now, let's talk about the English listening practice.
Do you remember why we can understand 'I love you'
that easily?
We had three reasons, right?
The very first reason was the short length.
So that's where we can start.
So the step number one for this listening practice
is that you start with a small chunk of words,
maybe three to five words at a time.
Turn on the AP function, Auto Pause, in Netflix.
And that will slice the long sentences
into small chunks for you.
Step Two. Close your eyes and listen to the chunk
at least 10 times.
Step Three. You may have some parts that you don't catch.
Open your eyes, check out the words from the subtitle,
look up the dictionary, understand the meanings
and write them down on your note.
Step Four. Close your eyes again and then repeat listening
until you can listen and understand clearly each words.
Step Five. Say as you listen.
Make sure to copy the pronunciation, accent, intonation,
everything as you're hear.
You may ask why I say in this listening practice?
Because of these three reasons:
One. This helps you focus more on listening.
Two. For the words you can pronounce correctly,
you can pick them up instantly when you hear them.
Three. If you practice this way,
you can say them when you need to do so.
This is called 'Shadowing' technique.
If you'd like to know about this technique
in the more detail, watch this video.
Once you complete this five steps with the first chunk,
you can move on to the next
and then next until you finish the movie.
When you are in this stage, turn off the AP (Auto Pause)
and subtitle.
Listen to the entire movie.
If you have any part you don't catch, pause,
listen again, again and again
and to make sure you get it and then go on.
Okay.
Here are my five final words for you.
One. Repeat listening over and over.
This is called 'Drill' method.
You must have drill and open your ears to spoken English.
Two. Do this practice at least one hour straight a day.
Three. Practice every single day.
It is much more effective than doing this for seven hours
only on Sundays.
Four. Increase your vocabulary.
The more words you know, the better you can understand
when you hear them.
So read out loud the words you wrote down on your note first
before you start your English listening practice
for the day.
Five. Be persistent.
Keep working hard.
This practice will surely help you
build a strong foundation of your English listening skill.
With that, you can go up to the next level very quickly.
Thank you for watching.
I hope you find this video helpful
for your English listening skill improvement.
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