How To Improve Your Listening Skills
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0:00 - Listening comprehension is a very important skill in language learning.
2:38 - You can't focus 100% when listening and that's okay.
4:33 - The brain requires repetition and novelty.
5:47 - Keep challenging and rewarding your brain when learning a new language.
7:29 - If you listen and you don't understand, don't get frustrated!
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Listening comprehension is not only the most important goal in language learning, listening itself is the key activity in order to get used to a new language.
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I from Thailand that viedo important for me thank you so much
Something to learn even i had hearing handicap, Tq.
Zor durumdayım bana yardımcı olur musunuz? Dinleme ile ilgili içinden çıkamadığım sorular..
I fully agree. This is true for any language... i've been telling my students this for years.
I really learned a lot from you. I highly appreciate your unwavering support and encouragement to your learners.
Steve I'm from Brazil and you are one of the first person I understood speaking in English. Thank you for sharing knowledge.
Palmas-TO. Just keep going and you'll achieve you language goal soon or later.
@@viniciusps01 *your language goal *sooner or later
@@Ultrajuiced Thanks 😊
He speaks slowly and clearly like a lot of older people
wow there are so many Brazilian people on the Internet, it's almost impossible to not find one of them in a random video, lol
I got 2-3 hours a day of listening time last year when I was learning Romanian, by listening to podcasts during my commutes and using the exercise bike. Combined with an online tutor and reading interesting content, it worked really well.
Hi guy,
It says " Roman wasn't built in one day, & where is the will, where there is way, So do I.
Thank You.
I started studying Romanian last year also in August. Resources for Romanian are hard to find.
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊@@ftnewschannelofthailand706
I've learned a lot of English with songs. I used to listen to the songs I liked and not understand a single word, but since I liked the song, I would listen to it again and again. I would look up the lyrics and translations and listen to it. Sometimes I'd listen and read the lyrics at the same time, sometimes I would only listen to the song or listen to it while doing something else, eventually, I started picking up more and more of the song, and then, I would go back to the lyrics and repeat this same method. This has always worked for me, it's like you said, repetition and novelty. I always go back to old songs and I'm constantly adding new ones to my playlists, gradually understanding more and more.
I learn english too, I can understand anything I listen to except for songs bc it is so fast then what my brain can understand so I have to see the lyrics :)
Check out the app Lirica. It uses song lyrics and it is really slick.
@@rwa9573 this still happens to me sometimes, depending on the song I don't understand anything the first time I'm listening to it. My tip is, If you like the song, look up the lyrics, sing along, with time you'll learn the lyrics and your brain will understand the words. :)
@@matheusvasconcelos4938 thx for your tip❤️
This is how I learn chinese. I use this method. The funny thing is, I used this same method to learn a 1980s classic hip hop song when I was 12. 😅 (native american)
Many thanks once again to the translators who have added subtitles in so many languages! This is a brilliant addition to these videos.
Thanks for pointing this out!
You’re welcome, we need to get the input ideas and Steve’s content to as many people as possible.
I have been learning Korean for 2 years now and I am not where I want to be. Your videos have helped me improve even in a few days because my tutor could tell a difference and was so stunned. He asked me what have I been doing to improve. I told him I stopped trying to memorize and just listen well and read.
Wow, I did not even know that there were subtitles in 20 languages in these videos. I can practice my German while listening to Steve. Very cool and useful!
Neither did I. I understand Steve completely now. I didn't understand spoken English four years ago, Even the easiest audiostories. But thanks to A.J.Hoge and Steve Kaufmann I improved my listening skills drasticaly. I am able to listen to original audiobooks by Wodehouse without reading them. While working in my vegetable garden, for example.
@@tschewm1353 That is awesome! For me learning English was quite easy, I just watched a lot of movies and cartoons when I was a kid. When I got older I started watching youtube. My comprehension is great now, I can read complex books very easily. Of course learning English in school helped too but I feel that it was my digital immersion that taught me the English language. I feel like many Europeans can relate to this xd
Going to turn them on for Chinese, thanks! I wonder if he does them himself…
@@mandarinjourneyswithnanno Most likely not, I don't think he has the time. Even translating it to your native language may take around an hour or so. To do that in 20 languages is insane! Probably some people from the Linq community translate his videos.
@@holgerjurjo4282 you can subscribe to volunteer
... He sends the script and you send back the translation.
I got the email last time. Tomorrow he's gonna upload again so he has already sent the script to all us volunteers
I’ve sat down and listened as a discipline, and usually, I will get distracted, so I agree entirely with you. Now when I have free time, I listen; that can be when I’m driving or if I’m on the subway and I notice I get more listening time in as well
American also learn other language?
English is best.
@@cherry-oz8gs yes English is the global language but there are many reasons to learn languages
@@muhilan8540 ok.that’s right.
At A Transport company in Brampton ON the employee of the year was a Truck driver. On the plaque in the lunchroom is his quote -
"Listen first, speak second." Glad I found your channel Steve.
Started Dutch, my 9th or 10th language thanks to LingQ . Having the same mini stories as Swedish etc. for a beginner it's a blessing because you can SEE the common words, even if the pronunciation is different. Because I haven't learned German, studying a Germanic language like Dutch or Swedish, just trough English is harder than the Romance ones, where being a native Romanian speaker with French education, it's a piece of cake. But I guess it is not harder than listening Japanese where comprehensible words, I mean 外来語、 are 1-2% and even then is a bit harder to recognize the original English, Portuguese or German pronunciation....
Pretty accurate advise. I've been doing something similar with various levels of videos for the last 7 months, with an emphasis on comprehensible levels and a few 50 to 60% comprehensible videos mixed in. I also supplement my target language with graded reading. The improvement of my listening comprehension has been dramatic. It's all about input.
I remember Laoshu said he started to realize the importance of listening after your videos. I had a lot of passive vocabulary in vietnamese and could understand children's books but couldn't speak at all. Then I spent 50 hours listening and now I am able to use what I know
Xin chào đồng hương
@@NamTran-uv4ev chào nam
@@haicautrang5304 hey, can i add friend with you on facebook?
Nghe ko hiểu thì làm sao nghe nhiều được bạn
Hi, I'm laos, I'm a one person like to speak English , many people talk like that, many lao
student Good for writing grammar reading but not speak, In Vietnam also like that ?😂😂😂
This is a trailblazer Steve. You emphatically put across the subject to the audience. As others I got it clearly. Thank you.
Thank you. Been very inspired and encouraged by your videos lately. So true about listening while doing stuff especially practical for people like me who are learning a language while working full time and raising a family. I love to listen when I drive, do laundry, dishes and cleaning!
I found that Steve's advice and experiences most closely resemble my own experiences of language learning (although I have been doubting myself, so thank you!!) and make a lot more sense. Very practical and helpful!
This is a tremendous talk on language acquisition. Steve really gets the fine points of how the brain works.
hey Stevie! it was quite a relieve to listen to the content of this video because I've been studying French for a while, one year and a half precisely, and even though I'm able to understand great part of the videos that I use to watch or even comprehend movies and tv series without subtitles, I sometimes feel that I still lose lots of pieces of the content, so that I've been second-guessing what I've been doing as a language learner, whether I was doing the right thing or not, whether I was wasting time and energy on what I've been doing, which might be summed up to reading and listening to compelling content, as you use to recommend on your videos. So, what brings me this "relief feeling" which I mentioned in the beginning of this comment is the idea that you pointed out (or at least I took it this way) that even after a while of massive practice on the target language there's no such a thing as perfection when it comes to our listening skills, for example. It will always exist something that we couldn't take quite well, such as specific words, or slangs, idioms, different pronunciations for a same word, different accents, cultural aspects of the language and so on, which might make us slip into some ambiguity of sorts. Therefore, being aware of this makes me feel quite more at easy, allowing me to be more patient in this long path that we must take to keep learning a new language. Thank you for another great video!
I really like your posts and tips, I was feeling unmotivated and frustrated these days cause I was not able to understand some advanced content, watching you now made me feel much better. I’ll keep pushing myself forward! Thank you Steve! 🇧🇷
You speak so clearly in every language (that I have any experience in). It is an amazing gift.
Thank you so much! I needed to hear that.
Thank you Steve for your tips! This lesson was really helpful. I'm from Argentina. I'm working on my skills in English to achieve my goals, which are moving my family and I to the north.
Hi Steve ! Thank you so much for your interesting and helpful advice !
As always prof. Kaufmann its a pleasure to learn something new in your videos.
Always grateful for the encouragement
Exactly right, practical and helpful. Thank you, Mr. Kaufmann.
It was very helpful. Thanks a lot!
Simple, direct and very effective tips. Thanks Steve!
I've been following Steve's advice when it comes to listening in my target language. It works. Just use a mixture of repetition and novelty when listening in your target language and you'll slowly acquire it.
Thank you Steve, always so knowledgeable and full of insight ✨
Greetings from Brazil. I've been learning English for the past one and a half year and a have been coming along constantly thanks to you, sir. Thanks a lot!
I am so glad I found this video! I am exactly the same way. I love sitting down and working throuhg the reading on LingQ, but when i try to sit down and listen I zone out, unless, I'm doing something else (walking, jogging, dishes, etc.). Thanks for confirming that this is ok and even normal that someone like you, a polyglot, does this!
That was tremendously helpful including you sharing that even someone of your stature accepts imperfection. Repetition. Novelty. Humility. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for the advice concerning repetition and novelty when studying. It was helpful for me.
I've tried to show that English is a beautiful language and it's possible to master it perfectly .
What I love about Lingq is that you can accomplish all of the necessary tasks that support listening and reading (input) in a very concise, easy to use, and richly functional way. To be able to simply choose a phrase, word or sentence and hear it, is vital to embed the material into the subconscious/automatic mind.Of course, Linqq facilitates this perfectly.
Thanks so much! Very useful advices!
nice showing about the words and meaning. It takes time to inject the meaning based on what we had leaned to the new voice. Thanks for the advise.
Thank you very much Steve. Very helpful 👍👍
Your advice is wise .Helpful and builds confident.Thanks for your motivation
This video is really important for me. Thanks a lot. You’re the best
Thank you very much for your sharing
Thank u for the idea, the step how to learn, don't give up,study and study
Thank you very much for posting this great information! Inspiring
Steve, thank you so much indeed for these priceless information. You're great ☺️☺️
Thanks Steve for sharing!!
This information is pure gold. Congratulations.
Steve thank very much for your advice
When you spread your knowledges is very important for all of us
Sr. Kaufmann, you are really really correct about everything that you've said in this video. I am getting used to the phase of hearing something and make a combination with meaning instantaneously, but it has been being possible because of the tips you gave here, and i Discovered it alone in with a lot of difficult, But YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT! I am a witness of this. Guys, You should do it if you want to get your English in another level quickly. Good Luck everyone and THANKS A LOT SR. Kaufmann!
Thank you Steve! 🙌
That was a wonderful lesson. Thanks a lot!! Cheers from Brazil :)
It's really helpfully, this is the second time for me to watch this series of videos. Thank you so mush for sharing.
Steve! When I started learning English, I did exactly what you say in this video. Even I did not know that this is the efficient way. I just invented it by myself. I can confirm that this was a great way to learn a new language.
Great video once again, Steve!
Excellent video. Great tips. I hope you and your family are safe and well during the heat wave.
Thank you for the tips! I love how you explain the theory behind your suggestions and don't just give out meaningless circular logic like "The way to improve your listening comprehension is to do lots of listening." I really struggle with listening though. I'm studying Japanese, and when I try to watch Japanese shows or listen to songs, I tune out almost immediately because it's moving too quickly and there is too much that I don't understand. I pick up isolated words here and there, but not enough to piece together meaning, and it's like my brain literally gets tired from trying to keep up. I know you said that it's difficult to remain dialed in all of the time. I just wish I could stay focused more, because I don't believe that at the point where my brain has essentially turned what I'm listening to into background noise, that I'm learning anything.
Thank you Steve, it was so useful for me🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hi, Steve. I'm from Brazil too. Your Portuguese is very good and your English very clear. Great classes. Congratulations!
Thank you this helped me as listening comprehension in my target language is the most difficult for me.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, STEVE
Thank you Steve Kaufmann, your videos has help me too much. I’m brazilian, now I living in Vancouver, I’m not confident or fluent, but I study everyday. Thank you so much.
I love these videos, they are encouraging and motivating. It always seems like Steve is touching on subjects we all struggle with!
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Thank you so much! I am learning Korean and I am really struggling with listening, and I wasn’t sure what to do about it or how to improve it. This help a lot 😊
Yeah! It was pretty good advice. Thank u for being there Steve Kaufman.
thanks a lot Steve for having me helping u for this great method of helping learners .....lots of love 🔥❤
Hey Assad! I would love to know your opinion about my videos. I have recently started teaching on TH-cam! Let me know what you think!
When I feel frustrated in English I'm quickly opening your channel and getting positive energy and gaining again my language skills thanks a lot you are the best language teacher I've ever seen 😀(from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 )
This guy is awesome! Thanks a lot
Keep watching your ideas and they are very helpful.
Thanks for the tips and incentives teacher!
You encouraged me, thanks a lot! It is helpful.
Fortunately l can almost understand what you are talking, saying.
Appreciated the Chinese characters shown below on the screen!
These Vids are so helpful
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful motivational ideas...!
thank you steve
thank you for your tips!) I'll actually use it for my studies
Thanks for your sharing, sir!
Thank u Mr.kaufman, very useful advices 👍
Thank you so much!
Thanks for advice.I will follow your instruction.I think it will help me
Wow, thanks so much Steve.....like you said, don't get frustrated, even if it take 20 times to understand!!!! Love it!!!
Love to listen and learn from your videos. Thank you sir ❤️
Good job, thanks.
Thanks so much Steve !
You this video really destroy my frustration of reading and not understanding all the way. Two good words or the ways I picked up, repeating and novelty. Metaphor of leveling, or cutting the lawn grass and understanding, reading or listening. I love it.
thanks for your skill&suggestion，useful，多謝你。
So good, Thank you.
Thank you Steve ..
Steve Kauffman you’re my hero and I just think you’re a fantastic human.
helpful. Thank you!
Excellent advice!
You've been a big help for me learning my first new language being Japanese, I'm still a beginner but I feel as if I'm progressing at a great rate. Thank you!
What do you do to improve listening? I feel like I'm not making progress
Hi from Siberia! Thank you very much! I think that your advice is very important.
Good lesson, thanks so much.
A very helpful video, thank you
Steve, this is very helpful advice.
Hi Steve
You make a lot of sence
My wife is from Indonesia so im learning bahasa
I have learnt a lot so far but going slow with sentences
Im now trying the gold list to learn more
Thanks for your videos
Cheers
Very useful remind us how to learn to learning Language, thank very much Teacher. 😊
Thanks for your experience 🥰
Thank you so much ขอบคุณมากๆเลยนะคะ หนูกำลังฝึกภาษาอยู่ กดดันมากเลยค่ะ ตอนนี้
I usually listen (in longer lessons) once while reading the transcript and once without it, to get the words and then to see what I understand. In shorter lessons, I like to listen once at first with no transcript, then listen with the transcript, then without it again. I also like to only do ones with videos because it's more engaging and makes it harder for your mind to wander.
wise encouragements .. thanks
This is what i need, thanks