Chapter 7: Listen to English Every Day to Boost Your Comprehension Skills
“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
― George Whitman
There are so many ways you can interact with the English language every day, no matter where you
live. Make sure that English becomes a background noise to your life. This way English will sink in
and you will simply start to relax into it, and feel great whenever you understand something.
Do not delay – start listening today!
You don’t have to live in Britain or the USA to be surrounded by English. There are many people who
go and live in the UK for years and don’t improve much. You can easily hear and watch things in
English over the internet for free, and get just as much exposure to the language.
You can get live streaming radio on sites like TuneIn.com, and you can browse Youtube.com all you
like. Listen to the news in English, or watch movies and TV shows online. You can even go online
and find your favorite TV show dubbed in English! Check out chapter 23 for more online resources.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to learn something you are passionate about, maybe your hobby, but
learn it in English. For example, if you love self-improvement you could buy some Tony Robbins
audio courses in English. Or if you are into golf, you can buy some audio courses in golfing in
English. You will really want to understand everything because you already love the subject so much!
It’s a well-known fact that in countries where the English movies are subtitled people speak better
English than in counties where the movies are dubbed. Make sure that your movies have subtitles, not
dubbing. You can use DVD’s, Netflix or online movie-watching programs like Kantaris to
automatically put subtitles on your movies. English subtitles or none at all are best, to give your ears
some steady exposure to the language.
It is good to listen to movies and use subtitles. But you have to make a sacrifice here. If you want to
really enjoy the movie 100%, and you are watching with subtitles in your own language, then you will
not be learning any English at all really. It’s much better to listen actively to the English. Take a
chance and put the subtitles in English. Then make notes, sometimes stop the movie to look something
up. You can even rewind the movie later and watch it again to understand it better.
A great trick to this is to watch a movie you already know well, but this time watch it in English,
without English subtitles. Because you know and love the movie, you already understand the story, so
you won’t get frustrated that you have no idea what is happening. You can focus on the English, learn
a lot and still enjoy the story.
Another thing to do is download audio books from your favorite authors. Listen to all these things in
your car as you drive to work, or on your smart phone as you walk to college. You will soon be a
master of English comprehension.
Now that you know the overall strategies to learning English fast, we will begin to look at some
excellent ways to break English down and make it easier to learn the important parts first. So you can
start speaking straight away.
The next chapter will show you how to be super-efficient when it comes to learning new words and
phrases.
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