Self-accurate pronunciation. Your own accurate and authentic English pronunciation can't make you invincible in listening, but inaccurate and authentic pronunciation can't effectively solve the listening problem. And accurate and authentic pronunciation often comes from correcting your pronunciation in listening. The two complement each other.

Second,

Reading should be carried out in proportion to listening practice. Many people concentrate all their time on the practice of listening materials in order to improve their listening comprehension. I'm sure it was a mistake. We don't live in foreign countries. No matter how you create it, there can be no real foreign cultural atmosphere around you. This example has shown that it is wrong to focus only on a single listening practice. Secondly, how much information is exposed to in listening practice? This information includes vocabulary, grammar, idioms, culture and so on. All the materials you come into contact with. I bet you can't listen to ten tapes as well as I can read an original. If what others say is beyond what you are familiar with on the tape, are you confident to understand it? This is a natural thing. Can you pack your daily speech into ten tapes? As long as your pronunciation is correct, many words you come across while reading may be understood if you meet them while listening. If your listening goal is to understand what you want to hear, then reading plays a more important role. At the same time, if you can't understand the sentence in reading, can you understand it in listening? I want to sum up: vocabulary and grammar are the keys to reading, reading quantity and reading ability determine the level of listening and speaking ability, and learning a language must start with listening and speaking.

Third, the VOA special program.

English is a good listening material, but you have heard enough. Give yourself a little confidence and listen to what foreigners say at normal speed. You can't ask foreigners to use special.

I'll tell you at the speed of English. Actually, it's very special.

The difference between English and normal pronunciation is not as small as you think, and the influence of speech speed on listening is not as weak as you think, which often plays a decisive role. Because there are too many differences between normal speech speed and slow speech speed, such as linking, ellipsis, light reading, ambiguity and so on. These are the key factors that affect understanding or not. special

English is full of complete sentences, in fact, normal expression does not need to be so serious. Are you confident to understand? In addition, special

English vocabulary is less abundant and its structure is more complicated. After listening to special English for several months or half a year, don't think that you are still special. Listen to normal things. But I also think that VOA

Listen to special English continuously, but don't concentrate. Because the VOA special program

English is not only a rare listening material in introductory English, but also an excellent material to correct pronunciation. No matter how much English you learn, I hope you can keep listening to special programs.

English.

Fourth,

It is much better to concentrate on understanding one tape than to listen to ten tapes at a time. We usually remember words with our eyes. Although you know the word, chances are you still don't understand it. When you listen, you are familiar with the word with your ears. After listening to a tape, you memorized all the words and sentences, pronunciation, intonation and so on on the tape with your ears. You can't remember much by listening to ten tapes.

Fifth,

It is very important to listen extensively while listening attentively. It seems to contradict the above. Please let me explain. There are some things that you can't hear in extensive listening, but I'm not talking about the amount of information that many people think you get in extensive listening. In fact, not many people listen and understand widely, so where is the information? What I want to emphasize is the speed and intonation. Get used to normal speech speed. We all listen to the same sentence over and over again in intensive listening, but in fact others will only tell you once. Please get used to the situation that others speak at normal speed and only speak once in extensive listening. You don't ask the weather forecast. Say it again and repeat it.

Sixth,

How to concentrate on the lecture? I don't approve of listening to everything before dictation. At least not in favor of listening to dictation of every listening material. One reason is that listening sometimes pays more attention to "quantity". You may not understand something you haven't heard, even Chinese. My suggestion is: choose typical materials before dictation. So to what extent should you listen attentively? Listen and repeat a sentence, or read after the tape. (Of course, you can't read the text. ) This is not as effective as dictation, and it takes much less time.

Seventh,

How to listen widely? Watching movies is listening extensively. Listening to real-time radio is extensive listening, watching TV is extensive listening, and try to get in touch with normal original audio as much as possible. You can listen to the same tape over and over again until you get tired of it. As long as you don't stop, you are listening. In the process of extensive listening, you can also turn the recording into intensive listening. There are no strict boundaries. Just remember, the purpose of extensive listening is to get used to normal speaking speed, or to the normal communication of foreigners. Pay attention to the speed of speech, continuous reading, slight pronunciation and other things that only continuous speaking can have.

Eighth,

Not to mention listening skills. Those skills can only help you in the exam. When I was in high school, my teacher taught me a lot of reading skills, saying that I can find topic sentences when reading articles, find keywords when reading topic sentences, and guess words if I don't understand them. These reading skills are probably useful in exams, at least I haven't used them. Because I have a large vocabulary and a good sense of language, no one else has found the topic sentence. I read the whole article. Do you believe the whole article or just one topic sentence? These skills are even more useless when reading the original. Another example is listening skills, listening to key words, ignoring the words you don't understand first, and then you may understand its meaning if you continue listening. Do we in China listen to key words? Do you dare to interpret if you only listen to key words? How much can a movie understand just by listening to keywords? More importantly, how many keywords can you find at normal speech speed? You still have time to think about the word you didn't hear just now? I'm afraid you have forgotten.

Ninth,

Pay attention to common words. Foreigners won't say every word in words you don't understand. What you don't understand is often the most commonly used words, but the words you have mastered. It's just that they make you feel like new words that are read at a constant speed, read continuously, and have a slight sound. I believe everyone has a deep understanding. What are the common words? In listening, if there is, go, you, where, when, him, them and so on (and others, of course). Here, the voice of America

Specialized English has its advantages and disadvantages. It can let you know the pronunciation of these common words, but it can't let you know the pronunciation of these words in normal communication.

Tenth,

English learning is a lifelong thing, and so is listening practice. Don't think that after half a year's intensive practice, I finally understand dozens of tapes at hand, and I will never encounter problems again. Can you understand anything other than dozens of tapes? Information changes rapidly. You can understand today's news, and you can certainly understand tomorrow's news? I dare not say it myself.

Eleventh,

Don't worry, it's natural not to understand. It's not your fault, it's not that others are smarter than you, it's just that others practice much more than you. Practice slowly and integrate yourself into the English world. As time goes on, you will see the results.