Hello There
My name's Ronnie
I had a lot of people have ask me
said "Ronnie,
how
can I improve my listening?"
Uhm, I've got a couple suggestions for you.
So, I'm going to teach you
Some tips
On how to improve
your listening skills
probably the way that you have learned listening
is... maybe you have a textbook
or... a CD
the problem with a textbook/CD is the language...
is not natural
Oh see... it's so unnatural we get beeped!
they have conversations like:
Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Ronnie. What is your name?
My name is Cynthia
Nice to meet you Cynthia
This is a pen
So, textbook English is not very natural
and they doesn't really teach you conversation or words
or phrases that we would say normally day to day
when we speak English, so...
to more natural things
the very first thing is: watching movies
the really good thing about movies is: maybe you like movies and they're fun!
so
don't ever be afraid to watch a movie and tell people that you're studying english
That's what I do!
my suggestion to you is when you watch a movie
because
they would not have
subtitles are
Hi
ammm...
sub means under and titles means like words
T-I-T-L-E, oh you can spell things
amm.. subtitles
are words under
the picture, or over the picture that tell you what the actors or actrices are saying
It would be very very difficult for you... to watch a movie with English subtitles
so my very first suggestion is when you watching a movie is to watch with your lenguage subtitles
so the very first time
you're gonna use your native lenguage
first time your native lenguage subtitles
then when you understand the movie and you know what happened
you can changed to
English subtitles
so then you're actually seeing what the people are saying
so you're studying how they form the words pronunciation
The only bad thing about movies is they're very long
and some of there are boring
movies are about an hour to hour and a half
a better thing to do
is to watch
T.V
T.V programs are usually 20 minutes
if you want to listen to
british English or american English
you can choose
T.V shows from Britain or T.V show from America
so... T.V shows I think are better than movies because they're shorter
the more time you stay in front of the television or the movie screen and have to translate stuffs
20 minutes
watching a T.V show
first whit your lenguage subtitles and then English
will improve your listening
you can take off the subtitles
and just listen to what the people are saying
they do speak really really quickly. So you have to use the subtitles first
It will help you a lot
is music
everyone loves music
when you listened to music
you have to understand that music is not grammar
music is never grammatically correct
It's absolutely crazily wrong grammar
the grammar is awful
they say things like
which is not grammar. So, please do not listen to music and think you can learn grammar
but what you can do
is you can get the lyrics
lyrics basically mean
the words to the song
so
when you have a CD or MP3 or whatever form you use a record
look on the internet and get the lyrics to the song
print them out or watch them on the screen
and listen with the music and listen to the words
This again will help you listening ANNNND you can dance if you want to