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

5 comments
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Nawaf says:
I agree completely , it is truly right , but keep in mind you have to moisten to some thing that you understand 95 percent of it , and the rest that you did not know it , just guess , over time your mind will start analyze the events .
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Vannessa says:
I agree completely. I am an EFL teacher, and on the first day of class, I always tell my students about that process, no matter their level. Listening came first, then speaking; after that, you went to school, and then reading came, and at the end, you learned how to write.
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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.