Secret #3: LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!
Posted by: Josef EssbergerStudents sometimes say: ‘I don’t listen to the BBC news on the radio because it’s too fast for me and I can’t understand it.’ That’s a pity! When it’s too fast for you, when you can’t understand it, that is exactly when you NEED to listen to it!!!
How can you improve if you don’t listen and practise?
When you were a baby, did you understand your own language? When you were 3 weeks old, or 2 months, or 1 year, did you understand everything? Of course not! But you learned to understand by listening. Think about it. You learned to understand your own language by listening, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. After that, you learned to speak. Then you learned to read. And then you learned to write. But listening came first!
Posted by Josef Essberger May 2023
Josef founded EnglishClub for learners and teachers of English in 1997
3 comments
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siamak says:
what a useful advice. I like it very much because without listining I forgot my english knowlage.
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Reader 1 says:
It needs to be comprehensive input. If you don’t understand you don’t learn. Babies gradually understand what mom is saying because they pick up the meaning of language by living through it. Just listening to something you don’t understand doesn’t help learning.
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Nelson Leandro dos Santos says:
I liked so much this article. Iam a Brazilian man and I am English teacher here in my country (Brazil) . Thank you , so much.