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How to improve English listening skills within 3 months?

Pham V - 2006-05-13 03:29:17 - Special Education

I want to improve my listening skills in English but I have only three months to work with. In such a short time to deal with CPE exam, I don't know how to deal with it properly because my current listening skills is still limitted. I can't hear radios and news from TV.

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What you can do to improve your english with grammar is to read a lot of english stuff. You should have some high standard and reliable english books of your interest in your library. Reading one page daily is better than reading seven pages weekly. Listen to english news as Fox news, BBC news, CNN, bloomberg etc. Among them, BBC is the best. Listen to the english news even if you do not understand it thoroughly. Once you will get used to it, you will start getting everything. Did you ever think that how you learned your own native language? Just by hearing the people around you. So in the same fashion, you can also learn English. First of all, you need input, and only then you will be able to produce output. The more you get input, the more your output will be. Listening to english music and watching english movies can also help. there are english learning CDs available in the market.i hope ther will be several institutions for learning english.............. take care best of luck

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Watch english TV/Video with english subtitles. Write more.

Well, one thing is for sure. Before you are able to hear well - you must be able to read well. I consider myself as an adequate English speaker for my second language. I have invested heavily in terms of time without ever having the intention to learn the language itself. What drove me to learn the language was my desire to understand those American movies. When I was 13 years old, I kept on watching the movie Indiana Jones II. I didn't understand it save for the heroic scenes and the music which I really liked. After watching it over and over again - I noticed that I began to pick up words automatically. Every time I did, I discovered something new regarding the plot of the movie. I discovered the drama and the story behind the adventure. Since you only have 3 months. I would recommend that you mix reading and watching English movies. Go for the deep thought movies. Reading a dictionary like a novel helps too. Good luck!

listen to some enlish radio stations on line (see link below) the bbc website is also a great place to learn. They play news on line in any language and have a learning site (see links below) Buy some dvds in your language and look at the back cover to see if it also plays in english. Watch it in your language once or go straight into the english version, maybe with substitles on too.

The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) have streaming radio broadcasts. It depends on the speed of your connection but you should be able to find a way of downloading things. If you have access to a radio, try BBC World Service. Listening to the News and making notes of words and phrases you don't understand is good practice.

Don't watch English TV channels. Just listen English news in BBC and CNN channels.

What you can do to improve your english with grammar is to read a lot of english stuff. You should have some high standard and reliable english books of your interest in your library. Reading one page daily is better than reading seven pages weekly. Listen to english news as Fox news, BBC news, CNN, bloomberg etc. Among them, BBC is the best. Listen to the english news even if you do not understand it thoroughly. Once you will get used to it, you will start getting everything. Did you ever think that how you learned your own native language? Just by hearing the people around you. So in the same fashion, you can also learn English. First of all, you need input, and only then you will be able to produce output. The more you get input, the more your output will be. Listening to english music and watching english movies can also help. there are english learning CDs available in the market.i hope ther will be several institutions for learning english.............. take care best of luck