Learning English Tip Listening
The Concept: Learning English Tip Listening is easy and fun subject. Using the Input based method we talked about before, one of the most and important key in learning a language is listening. Listening is very important. Specially for new learners, Listening should be the major skill to master. Think of baby is he grows up, he spend a fairly amount of time in listening to a Language spoken by his parents. At a certain point he begins to spell some letters of what he had listened to. Language experts advice to listen and listen again over time.The Exercise: Listen to music, songs, radio podcast, news or normal conversations between people who speak clear English. You can use your phone, computer, mp3 player or any other device to listen any time and everywhere. The more you listen is better. You can make it a habit during transportation to work or school. Over time, this will improve not only the listening skill but the speaking skill as well.
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Great Sites to Improve English Listening Skills
The following websites are recommended from students from around the world.- Listen and Write and English Central allow students to choose their level. Then present a number of lessons to improve listening based on each level.
- Many English Teachers recommended Ted.com, which has videos of talks at its conferences on "Ideas Worth Spreading." Ted.com also presents a subtitle section for most of the talks that students can use to learn more about each talk and the vocabulary used in it.
- Voice of America has scripts of all their broadcasts, which are also spoken more slowly than on most other sites.
- Recently discovered language listening library Ello.com
- Our favorite at SpeakToMeEnglish is NPR.org. Many articles has a script with audio files to feature that article. We find it very useful.
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