Do you listen podcasts? Do you trying to increase your listening skills with language that you are lerning? What exersizes help you to do it? I found great way to practice it by listening podcasts. As for me, i think that listening skills most important part in learning foreign lenguage. Becouse if you cant get what people say to you, you cant communicate with them. So if your grammer bad, if your speling no good, like my speling:)), you still can write to people. And people understand you if they want it. But if you havent cool listening skills, you cant speak with your foreign friends, you cant go for cinema thiaters or watch your favourite TV-serves, you cant order your a Pizza by phone. And without friends, movies and Pizza life becomes not so fan:)) Best regards, Yuri. Have a nice day!