Questions tagged [listening]
Questions related to listening, especially developing and improving listening skills.
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How can I improve the listening and speaking skill as a self-learner?
I learn any languages mostly alone, without any school or tutors (as it is insanely expensive and also quite inflexible). I learn it mostly online, starting with apps like Rosetta Stone and Memrise as ...
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How do I make my Chinese listening robust to unknown words?
From my perspective, when reading sentences in Chinese, I might read:
[understandable part] [unknown word] [understandable part].
And I can usually understand the whole sentence to a large degree ...
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How can I help someone improve their listening comprehension?
A bit of background: My girlfriend is Taiwanese and will attend TesDaF (German test) in a week. She has been previously learning for about 8 months now while being in Germany. So far, all points (...
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Is "difficulty" an inherent trait in language?
It's quite common to talk about the relative difficulty(1, 2, 3, etc) of languages. But do languages have an inherent difficulty?
Put another way, perhaps, are some languages easier or more ...
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What's the most efficient way of improving English listening skills?
I am a native Chinese speaker, and I have lived in Toronto for 8 years since the time I was 18 years old. But my English listening skills are pretty poor. I cannot understand the movies in the theater ...
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Which is the more efficient method to improve the listening of the american english? [closed]
For some years now, I've been trying to get better in English and especially in terms of grammar, but my listening comprehension is still very low. I try to watch movies or series but listening ...
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Will having a part time or freelancing translation job affect my effort of thinking in second language?
I'm a native Persian speaker and I've been learning English since I was 11.
Of course in the first years of learning, I actually had a lot of mistakes in choosing methods that I will never repeat in ...
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How does the vocabulary learned through immersion compare to vocabulary learned via study?
When reading texts in L2, (sometimes) it can be easy to infer the meaning of a word based on its usage in the text. This can work similarly when listening or conversing. (Of course, to ensure there is ...
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How can you understand the pronunciation differences if you don't understand them even on minimal pairs training?
The minimal pair training seems to be the best way for adults to distinguish the sound difference on a foreign language that doesn't exist in his/her native language. According to Fluent:
But it’s ...
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