Listening is the most important academic skill. Do you agree or disagree? The essay will entirely agree on this point, while it strongly support that students need a have advantage listening skills，in particular overseas students，which lend to them increasingly adapt their university life. On the other hand, students who lack benefit listen that will difficultly handle numerous academic actions. Such as lectures, group discussions and all the lessons require listen. Listening skills will give students improved chance about experience of discussion in university. An example of that attend a number of activities. It is well known that if students are listening their classmates discuss topics difficultly, which will no doubt toughly have a communication or social activity during university. That is to say, those students who have great listening ability are able to express their meaning. In addition, it is obvious know that listen skills is relevant. Take for example: a poor listening student study aboard as well as take part in a seminar, but almost all foreigners here. He wants to talk about points with his peers or make more friends during this period. However, all because of the listen, he difficultly discusses as well as solve problems with other peers. All these above show that if this student want to continue his seminar, he must understand other peers’ meaning. The same reason, he can not hear their students’ meaning due to he can not say his meaning. Even he enjoys this topic and he want to discuss a specific topic with them. But he still only hears other students to talk, can not join the discussion. It is the reason why this essay is support that the listening is a significant skill about the academic areas. however, a number of students consider the listening is not a meaningful skill, especially they have a paper need to complete. That is to say, these students will think that they only need to prepare the materials, and then, finish the paper. the paper has a high quality, they have success. The listening skills are not necessary. But a friend told me her experience. Her assignment has a low score, therefore she went to teacher’s office and want to argue with her assignment and improve her score. But her poor listening skill lead to she did not understand her teacher ‘s advises, which produces she can achieve her goal. In conclusion, the essay still strongly supports that listening is a necessary skill during our academic study.