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What is the most important English skill?
What skill must you have to communicate well?
Obviously, number 1 is Fluency. What is
fluency? Fluency is the ability to speak (and understand)
English quickly and easily... WITHOUT
translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers--they
easily understand you, and you easily understand them. In fact, you speak and understand
instantly.
Fluency is your most important English goal.
The research is clear-- there is only ONE
way to get fluency. You do not get fluency by reading textbooks.
You do not get fluency by going to English
schools. You do not get fluency by studying
grammar rules.
Listening Is The Key
To get English fluency, you must have a lot
of understandable repetitive listening. That is the
ONLY way. To be a FANTASTIC English
speaker, you must learn English with your ears, not with your eyes. In other
words, you must listen. Your ears are the key to excellent speaking.
What kind of listening is best? Well, it
must be understandable and must be repetitive. Both of
those words are important--Understandable
and Repetitive.
If you don't understand, you learn nothing.
You will not improve. That's why listening to English TV does not help you. You
don't understand most of it. It is too difficult. It is too fast.
Its obvious right? If you do not
understand, you will not improve. So, the best listening material is
EASY. That’s right, you should listen
mostly to easy English. Most students listen to English that is much too
difficult. They don’t understand enough, and so they learn slowly. Listen to
easier English, and your speaking will improve faster!
Understanding is Only Half The Formula.
Understanding is not enough. You must also
have a lot of repetition. If you hear a new word only
once, you will soon forget it. If you hear
it 5 times, you will still probably forget it!
You must hear new words and new grammar
many times before you will understand them
instantly.
How many times is necessary? Most people
must hear a new word 30 times to remember it forever. To know a word and
instantly understand it, you probably need to hear it 50-100 times!
So, the two most important points are:
listen to easier English and listen to each thing many
times.
Powerful Listening and Excellent Speaking
1. Practice “Narrow Listening”
“
Narrow
listening” means listening to many things about the same topic. This method is
more powerful than trying to listen to many different kinds of things. Students
who listen to similar things learn faster and speak better than students who
listen to different kinds of things.
For example, you can choose one speaker and
find many things by him. Listen to all of his podcasts, audio books, and
speeches. This is powerful because all speakers have favorite vocabulary and
grammar. They naturally repeat these many times. By listening to many things by
the same person, you automatically get a lot of vocabulary repetition. You
learn faster and deeper!
Another example is to choose one topic to
focus on. For example, you could read an easy book, listen to the same audio
book, listen to a podcast about the book, and watch the movie.
I did this with my class in San Francisco. We read
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Then we
listened to the audio book. Then we watched
(and listened to) the movie. Then we listened to interviews with actors in the
movie. My students learned a lot of vocabulary in a short time, and their speaking
improved very quickly.
2. Divide Your Listening Time
Which is better: to listen for two hours
without a break, or to divide that time during the day? Well, dividing your
listening time is best.
By dividing your time throughout the day,
you remember more and learn faster. So its much better
to listen 30 minutes in the morning, then
30 minutes in the car or train, then 30 minutes coming
home from work, then 30 minutes before
sleep. In fact, this is the exact schedule I recommend to
my students!
3. Use an iPod or MP3 Player
iPods are fantastic. You can put a big
listening library on one. Then you can carry your English lessons everywhere.
You can learn English while walking, while shopping, in the car, in a train,
while cooking,.......
With an iPod or MP3 player, you don’t have
to worry about CDs. Also, you can find a lot of English listening on the
internet. You can find lessons, stories, podcasts, TV shows, interviews, and
audio books. Simply download the audio, put it on your iPod.. and learn English
anywhere!
4. Listen To Movies
Movies are great for learning English BUT
you must use them correctly. Don’t watch all of an
English movie. You will not understand it,
and therefore you will not learn anything. Only watch one scene or segment per
week (maybe 2-3 minutes). Follow this method:
a) First, watch the scene with subtitles in
your language. This will help you understand the general
meaning.
b) Second, watch the scene with English
subtitles. Pause. Use a dictionary to find new words you
don’t understand. Write the new sentences
in a notebook.
c) Listen to the scene a few times, with
English subtitles. Do not pause.
d) Listen to the scene a few times, without
subtitles.
e) Repeat a) - d) everyday for one week.
On the second week, go to the next
scene/segment and repeat again. It will take you a long time to
finish a movie. That’s OK, because you will
improve your listening and speaking VERY FAST. This method is powerful-- use
it!
5. Read and Listen at the Same Time
Listening and Reading together are very powerful. While you
listen to something, also read it. This will improve your pronunciation.
Reading
while listening also helps you understand more difficult material.
Read and listen to learn
faster. After you do this a few times, put
away the text and just listen. You will understand a lot
more and you will improve faster. Always
try to find both audio and text materials.
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