How to practice English listening skills (without spending extra time)

This video explains why most people fail to improve their listening. You'll also learn how to practice English listening without spending extra time. (The last section of the video might surprise you.)

[GabrielMLinassi]

I've already used this method. It's very good because you'll be putting the english language in your daily life. Besides it, you kill two birds with one stone, because you can clean your house, walk around the city, wash the dishes and so on in the same time that you're listening. Anyway, very nice this tip and thanks for sharing  it with us.

[shivaniwarde]

podcasts are really so brilliant, I am from India, being an Indian is very very important to learn how to speak English well and communicate in it. every now and then I used to search ideas how to become a good learner and speaker of english, but when I came across your lessons I find it perfect. 😊

[rubendominguez]

When I was learning French, my teacher told me that I had to listen to the same dialogs (the dialogs of our book) many times until being able to understand them very well without the text. So I started listening to those dialogs with enthusiasm. I do not know how many times I listened to them. At that time I had any ipod so I just could listened to them at home. Well, I tried out several things. I also watched some movies, but I did that to get familiar with the sounds on movies. What helped me the most was to listen to the dialogs for lontime. Very often I fell sleep listening to that and I also think that help me a lot because my brain absorbed that information through that.

[onee]

There are two types of listening.
1) Trying to understand what they're saying in for example a podcast (passively)
2) Having a conversation with someone which requires you to respond back. This is more difficult. But at the same time will help you a lot more (actively)

[ipnotikfromitaly]

Besides listening to MP3 files (interviews, documentaries, news and so on) I often listen to talk radio station using my smartphone while I'm walking or doing other things that require little attention, it's very useful.

[hiulamying]

I am a Hong Kong student, I think that MP3 materials really make use for me!! I hope my listening skills may improve very soon.
Thankyou so much.

[umidjonismoiljonov]

I got 8.0 for real from IELTS listening just by listening podcasts.❤

[yasmimbellato]

I'm so glad I found this video! I'm definitely apply this technique in my learning. Thank you so much💞

[rickayoshida]

You made a point, i have been watching some sitcoms with subs, and i agree, that it does not works well, now im watching without subs, and ive already studied through podcasts, but with your videos, it opened in my mind a better way to increase my english skills, thank you man, , , keep up the good work


[DontYouSay]

I'm studying with Podcast since August 15th, instead of whatch TV series and my listening skills has significantly increased. I came here just to make sure that I was doing the right thing, and I'm.

Thks!

[ThuyBui-fcco]

do admit this way. I used this for a while and my listening skills have been better and better. Recently i haven't stopped to do this and your video makes me practise it again. Thanks for video :) . shared it

[Justiceification]

Thanks a lot for this great method of listening sharing. I hope I can improve my listening by following your techniques!

[khuonghang]

Thank you for sharing your precious experience to us! Before watching this video i always thought that improving listenning skill by watching movies is the best way because i thought i felt relax when i was learning. I really really love the way you compared them. Now i can save 20, 800 minutes per year for sleeping LOL. I was kidding i'll use it to learn another skills. Thank you very much.

[PlearnGaming]

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Watching movies was my only thought for studying English. This is very convenient. I will take your advice to learn pronunciation and accent. Thank you so much.

Best Regards,
#chaisiam

[natthiphonjolivet]

i like the way that u say. it's easy to listen :)

[ducchu]

I have never heard about this technique before. And it has made significant progress. Thank you a lot

[Nanoscientist]

It's not about the minutes spent in the learning process it's about the quality of the process itself.
In watching movies, the actions and visual aids help enormously in internalizing new vocabulary and content by combining them with specific situations that are hard to forget.
Of course your method is highly effective, but underestimation of movie-watching way is wrong.

[katt]

I'm an American learning Japanese, but your advice is amazing. After I watch an episode of something, I download it as an mp3. I use Audacity to cut out the theme song, sound effects, and long silence. Recently, I downloaded a show that was 20 minutes long, but cut it down to 13 minutes! When I'm at work or driving, I listen to the audio I edited. I also try to shadow/repeat what is being said in the audio to improve my pronunciation and intonation.

[zeeshan.khan]

20800 min is appropriately 1 hour per day... I'm spending this time in vocabulary, Grammer rules, and reading 10 pages of a book every day. I'm targeting every book on my shelf by the end of May 2021. Also, I have joined a community, where we speak English on group discussion topics 3 days a week.

Thank you for filling the gap in my strategy 😊

[richardedwardson]

Thank you very much! It's really working. My method is to listen to english songs (not just hearing) and try to understand what the singer actually saying. By doing so, my english listening skills flies to a next level XD