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When a student learn a new language is more important to learn before speaking or listening? Is the listening what helps to speak better or vice versa?
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When a student learns a new language, is it more important to learn speaking or listening? Is listening what helps you to speak better or vice versa?Hello Simonetta,
It is better to learn both at the same time, this is how you usually intend to use a language. It will help you if you do some listening first to get your ear tuned to the new language. You could have a look at lyricstraining.com to help you with English. But you can listen to songs you like in your target language and sing along to help with pronunciation.
Best wishes
Simonetta.
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thank you so much for your advice.
It is important listening and why not thinking before speaking ;)
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Slightly off topic, but...
People who have hearing disability from birth often never quite learn to vocalise words because sounds do not exist, not even in the past for them, so they do not know what words should sound like.
That's why I'm sceptical if you or any other person could learn to speak a new language without knowing what it sounds like. Thus, I think you have to first learn to listen, then you will know how to say those things.
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