How to improve your listening in English

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English with Ronnie


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