How Do I Improve My Auditory Skills?

Listening can be said to be the biggest obstacle to English learning for our Chinese students. Many undergraduates who successfully pass the Level 6 exam have very few listening comprehensions. Many people choose answers based on the words they understand and then use inference and exclude some test strategies. (Some domestic listening textbooks also propose a system "theory" that can select the correct answer just by looking at the answer.) This way it is possible to pass the test, but you only have to know the ability to actually use English.

Ways to Improve English Listening

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Listening can be said that we Chinese students

Listening can be said to be the biggest obstacle to English learning for our Chinese students. Many undergraduates who successfully pass the Level 6 exam have very few listening comprehensions. Many people choose answers based on the words they understand and then use inference and exclude some test strategies. (Some domestic listening textbooks also propose a system "theory" that can select the correct answer just by looking at the answer.) This way it is possible to pass the test, but you only have to know the ability to use English.

Accurate pronunciation

Accurate and accurate pronunciation of English can't make you harmless in listening, but inaccurate and inaccurate pronunciation can never effectively solve the problem of listening. And accurate authentic pronunciation often comes from correcting his own pronunciation in listening. The two work together.

Reading should be conducted at the same time as listening exercises

Many people focus all their time on listening materials to improve their listening. I'm sure this is a mistake. We are not living abroad. No matter how you create it, you cannot have a true foreign cultural atmosphere around you. This one can already show that it is wrong to focus on a single listening practice. Secondly, how much information do you come into contact with during listening exercises? This information includes everything from vocabulary, grammar, idioms, culture, and so on to encountering materials. I dare say you can't listen to ten cassettes of information as much as I read an original book. If the content of other people's speech exceeds your familiar tape content, are you confident to understand? This is a very natural thing. Can your own daily speech content be loaded with ten cassettes? As long as you pronounce correctly, many of the words you encounter while reading will make you understand if you encounter them. If your listening goal is to understand what you want to hear, reading is even more important. At the same time, if you cannot understand a sentence even when you read it, can you understand it in listening? I want to sum up: vocabulary and grammar are the keys to reading. The amount of reading and the ability to read determine the level of listening and speaking skills. We must start with listening and speaking when we learn a language.

Listen attentively

We usually remember words with eyes and remember them. Although you know the word, it is likely that you still don't understand the word. In listening practice, you use ears to get familiar with the words. Listen carefully to a cassette of tape. You memorize all the words and sentences, pronunciation, intonation, and so on. Listening to ten cassettes, you can't remember much.

Extensive listening is important at the same time as intensive listening

Seems to contradict itself. Please listen to my explanation. Extensive listening has something that can't be heard by intensive listening, but I'm not talking about the amount of information that many people think is obtained in extensive listening. In fact, there is not much to understand in general listening. Where is the amount of information? What I want to emphasize in the listening list are: speed of speech and intonation. Let you get used to normal speaking speed. We all listen to the same sentence repeatedly during intensive listening, but in fact, others will only speak to you once. Please make yourself accustomed to speaking at a normal rate and only speak once during the listening. You won't be asked to repeat the sentence after saying a word about the weather.

How to listen carefully?

I don't approve of whatever you listen to and then dictate it based on the recording. At least I don't approve of listening to every dictation. One reason is that listening sometimes focuses more on "quantity." What you haven't heard, even in Chinese, you probably don't understand it. My suggestion is: choose what you think is typical and then dictate. So to what extent is intensive listening? Listen to a repeat, or read along with the recording. (Of course, you can't look at the text.) This effect is no more than dictation and it takes much less time.

How to listen in general?

Watching movies is listening. Listening to real-time broadcasts is a general listening, watching TV is a general listening, and as much exposure as possible to the normal original audio. You can listen to the same tape over and over again until the taste is over. As long as you don't pause, you're listening. During the extensive listening process, you can also convert the recording to intensive listening. There are no strict boundaries. Just remember that the purpose of overhearing is to get yourself used to the normal speed of speech, or to say what the normal communication of foreigners is. The focus is on things like speed of speech, continuous reading, abbreviations, etc. that are only possible with continuous speaking.

Ignore any listening skills.

Those skills can only help you during the exam. When I was in high school, the teacher taught a lot of reading skills, saying that you can find topic sentences when you read the article, you can find keywords in the topic sentence, and you can guess the words if you don't understand. These reading skills are probably useful during the exam, at least I haven't used them. Because I have a large vocabulary and a good sense of language, others have not found the topic sentence. I have read the entire article. Do you believe in the whole article or just a topic sentence? These techniques are even more useless when reading the original work. Another example is listening skills, listening to keywords, ignore words that you do nt understand, and continue to understand what they mean. Do we Chinese listen to keywords? If you only listen to keywords in the interpretation, do you dare to interpret it? How much can you understand in a movie just by listening to keywords? More importantly, how many keywords can you find at normal speaking speed? Do you still have time to think back to the word you didn't hear? I'm afraid you have forgotten long ago.

Pay attention to common words

Not every foreigner speaks words that you do not understand. What you don't understand is often the most commonly used word, and it's the word you already know. They just make you think they are new words at constant speed, continuous reading, and acronyms. I believe everyone has already experienced it. What are the commonly used words? In listening, for example, have, go, you, where, when, him, them, etc. (of course there are others). Here, VOA Special English has its advantages and disadvantages. It can let you know the pronunciation of these common words, it can't let you know how to pronounce these words in normal communication. ^[1]