Self Study English Listening - How to Self Study English Listening

so how can you self study listening

you can use dual subtitles on netflix and  youtube you can watch ted talks with transcripts  

and subtitles and you can use language  apps like memrise duolingo or rosetta stone

so let's talk about oh did i skip one nope okay  ted talks with transcripts and subtitles you can  

go to ted.com to find thousands of interesting  videos about many many many many many many topics  

and these videos are teachers and professionals  from all around the world talking about really  

interesting things many of these videos  have subtitles in many different languages  

and full transcripts that you can read so a  transcript is all of the things said in the  

video when you watch maybe you just see one  line of speaking show one sentence at a time  

right on the transcript you can see the whole  speech and they have transcripts in english  

and korean and chinese and russian and so  many other languages so you can listen along  

watch practice right read and listen this is  very important to developing your listening  

make sure to read along while you listen it helps  us to understand and make the connection between  

the sounds we hear and the words they  represent so make sure to read the transcript  

or read the subtitles in english and  your native language while you listen  

you can also do this on things like netflix  and youtube with something called dual  

subtitles dual means like two so  you can download something called  

netflix dual subtitle for learning languages  or youtube dual subtitle these are the exact  

names and these are things you can download on  google chrome that allow you to see two language  

subtitles at the same time this is very useful and  the netflix one the netflix dual subtitle you can  

even pause highlight words put your mouse over a  word and see the meaning you set the language so  

this is very useful for studying and you can do  it with your favorite shows and movies and you  

can even do it on youtube so this is a great way  to study listening again reading while you listen

and of course you can use apps like memrise  duolingo and rosetta stone these are very  

convenient right we can do them any time of  day on your phone at your convenience right  

of these and of the many i recommend the rosetta  stone app because it takes an acquisition approach  

what this means is from the beginning you  only hear things in that second language  

so it starts very simple you practice your  speaking listening reading and so on from in  

in a more natural way that you would learn  a first language in so rosetta stone is a