Simple and Effective Methods for
Practicing English Listening

To improve English listening, many people would buy different kinds of learning materials, ended up with no apparent effect while spending a lot of money. Well then, what are the effective methods to improve English listening? Let us sum up now.

There are many methods to improve English listening. For instance, if you have a lot of money, you can hire a British people to communicate with you in English everyday, or just live in English-speaking countries for a couple of years, thus have the listening naturally improved. However, most Chinese people are unable to do such things, so a more proper method is needed. In fact, you want to learn English well, the basic precondition is that you must have learnt English first and managed at least one thousand words. Here “managed” means you can figure out the meaning of a word once hearing it. If you are unable to figure it out in some long sentences, your listening needs to be improved.

If you want to improve your English listening, just spend some time! For example, listen to English news at 8:00pm everyday for just about 10 minutes. By doing this, you can improve your English listening gradually without spending too much time. While listening to English news, it is recommended that you prepare a pen and a piece of paper before and listen in quiet surroundings. When hearing some familiar words, just write them down, so as to progress gradually. Maybe you can only figure out ten words on the first day, but never mind, you can figure out more the next day, and as you continue to do this, you will be able to figure out more and more words until you can understand the whole piece of news.

You can benefit a lot from listening and writing at the same time, and it is a quite advisable method as you can enhance listening skills, review words, as well as take a glance at the current situation. When you learn English well, you can try to get employed in big companies, and later practice ability on stenography, fast guessing or quick translation, so as to improve your ability gradually.