How to listen English well?

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Listening is the main problem of many people learning English. You still feel uncomfortable to listen to everything related to English because it is both difficult and boring in some aspects. But something can be changed after you read this article. It will help improve your listening skill in English very much.

The first thing you need think about is to change your perception and habit in listening. If you are supposed that you have to understand all information you listen to, give it upimmediately. You ought to be aware of the fact that you are not a native speaker. How better you are, you can only hear from 70-90 percentages. Furthermore, when you put yourselves in a high pressure, you may soon feel more and more bored with trying to listen to English. Thus, you can apply a new style of listening English free listening.

 

Have you ever known about “free listening” before? What does it mean belong to you?“Free listening” means you needn’t to understand what you are listening to. It is not necessary for you to be too stressful when listening. In contrast, you can relax yourself. For instance, you can turn on your radio or video tapes and neglect them. Do everything you want such as cooking a meal, reading a magazines or playing online game and so on. Try to maintain this free listening style everyday because it will not only create a good habit for you but also wake up your subconsciousness. I am sure that after a regular practising process, you will recognize there are many familiar words you used to here before. In addition, you can capture more information about what you are listening and your skill is a bit better.

However, it is possible for you to listen to English with distinct purposes. You may intend to capture the main content of a story you are hearing or you may try to complete perfectly all the listening homework your teachers give. Hence, in your leisure time, it is good for you to do the listening exercises such as filling the missing words you hear in the blanks and choosing the right answers or deciding true/false sentences. It is also a good way if you canwrite down what you hear. Never break the rule of listening only to key words. Key words mean important words related to the information you need to know.

Another thing you should pay attention in listening English is to choose the programs to listen. You can listen to everything you enjoy such as music, films or news and so on as long as you find them interesting and attractive. Notwithstanding, there are lots ofpopular programs for English learners on over the world like BBC talk show, Frank Skinner’s opinionated or Voa English andTed. You can listen to these well-known programs whether you are applying either free listening or purposeful listening style.

Anyway, do not forget to keep yourself pleasant when listening to English. An uncomfortable mind will negatively affect your natural ability. However, you should be strict to yourself. If you can drive away your laziness and regularly spend your time applying what I have just shared with you everyday, there is nothing can stop your success.