Problems with listening

[Chanra]

hello i have problem with my listenning ,i want you to send me more listenning lesson because i am poor at listenning and i want teacher tell me how to improve listenning skill please.thank you

[Torsten]

You can start with this listening test: Photograph listening exercise

TOEIC listening, photographs: Reading on an airplane

[Yilmazaksam]

I have problem with my listenning too.

[Greendragon]

Hi everybody,
I am taking a listening and note-taking exam next week, but i don't know how to take notes of important information. The speakers talk very fast and provide a lot of information. If i get some important words and write them down, i will miss what they talk after that. ooooooooooh, very difficult......
Anybody can give me some tips to cope with the coming exam?
Please help me ! hic hic....

[HamburgEnglish]

The problem you have here is a core skill problem "the ability to listen and complete a second task at the same time" It is a common problem with thousands of students worldwide, that generally have a good level of English, but many problems when listening.

Core skills for listening need to be practiced separately. Firstly, you need a good vocabulary understanding and this means, you must understand the word immediately you hear it and not have to think about it. The larger your "immediate" vocabulary knowledge, (which can be developed by repetitive use of words in sentences ...etc) the easier the next step.

Now your brain needs to be trained. Remember, your brain is the control center to core skills when learning a language. The brain can be taught in two ways, passively and actively. "Passively" means simply to remember and understand knowledge. "Actively" means to place that knowledge into an area of natural instinctive use and in the case of listening, into an area where you can listen and understand while at the same time completing another mental or physical task.

Unlike many other skills, when learning a language the active part of learning is as important as the passive part. An example of this is: When you learn to drive a car. Although you learn how to drive a car quite quickly, only after a period of time does driving a car become instinctive and you don't think about things like, indicating, braking, where is the windscreen wiper button, can I get through that gap? .... etc. Unfortunately, when you live in a non-English speaking country, you do not have the ability to immerse yourself enough for the "active" learning process to quickly develop.

Here is an example of core skill development: Listening to English while at the same time doing another task, for instance, the ironing, driving, washing the dishes. OK to start you may have problems, but these problems will become less as you practice more.

Remember that although sitting quietly and listening to English has many useful benefits and indeed is very important, you are not fully exercising all core skills unless you do something else at the same time.

You can also practice these core skills at:

www.onlineenglish.eu
TOEIC Test preparation by OnlineEnglish.

Rob
www.hamburg-english.de
Official TOEIC Test center.

[Phuongth432]

thank you for your advices, MR HamburgeEnglish. i have many problems with listenning to English, too. i have never try your tips before. so, i decide to try them. i hope they can help me. and do you recommend me some topic to listen to? i usually listen to VOA. is it ok? do you think i should use tapescript when i listen?
sometimes, i feel my listenning skill is very terrible.

[Micky]

[quote="HamburgEnglish"]The problem you have here is a core skill problem "the ability to listen and complete a second task at the same time" It is a common problem with thousands of students worldwide, that generally have a good level of English, but many problems when listening.

Hello there, I have the same problem. Thank you for your advice and do you think that it would be helpful listen while writting another theme too?

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