How to improve the speech perception?
Hey everyone!
Two day ago I started to watch Friends in English 10 season. It's my first experience. But the characters spoke very quickly and I understand just few words of all dialogs there. Then I took subtitles of this episode and read it few times. When I watched it again I could understand about 30% of all sentences with great difficult.
What do you think about it? Should I continue to watch Friends or I should find less difficult thing?
Also everyday I listening Dr. Pimsleur's lessons "English for Russian". I have complete eleven lessons and I understand every sentence very well there, even if announcer speak very fast.
If you know interesting method how to improve the speech perception, let me know please.
Thank you, dear friend!
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How to improve my listening abilities?
Hey everyone!Two days ago, I started watching Friends in English - 10th season. It's my first experience with this series. But the characters spoke very quickly and I understood just a few words. Then I took subtitles off for this episode and read it a few times. When I watched it again I could understand about 30% of all sentences with great difficulty.
What do you think about it? Should I continue to watch Friends or I should I find something less difficult thing?
Also, everyday I listen to Dr. Pimsleur's lessons "English for Russians". I have completed eleven lessons and I understand every sentence very well there, even if the person speaks very fast.
If you know any other/good methods on how to improve my listening abilities, let me know please.
Thank you, dear friend!
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Spoken English is, sometimes, too fast. Or it may appear to be so, especially for people who are not used to hearing native people talk this way. If the "Friends" series is too much for you, maybe you could find some easier dialogs on YouTube in order to improve your listening abilities. Subtitles may be of use, but sometimes they are generated automatically and they don't coincide with what actually is being said. Just increase the difficulty gradually until you reach a point, where subtitles are redundant.
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