Hello Elan , There are several tips to improve your listening skills in English: - Listen regularly to English through podcasts, TV , news , radio , music etc... - Accept the fact that you are not going to understand everything. Don't give up or get frustrated when you don't, just keep listening and you will sense gradually an improvement and a gradual increase of the words you are able to recognize audibly. - Do not translate into your native language, try to think English. When you listen to someone speaking , the momentary translation into your mother tongue might block your ability to listen continuously and practice that skill. - Use chat programs like italki for example to voice chat with native speakers. Seize this opportunity to catch the correct accent and practice listening live to spoken English. - Listen to English songs ,try to write down the lyrics on your own ,then compare it with the correct lyrics and monitor how you improve gradually by repeating the same process after a period of time, when your skills have developed a little. - Look for online English listening comprehension quizzes to test your level and ability to understand the spoken text. - Mingle with native speakers ( if possible), just listening to English spoken around you will help improve your skills. If you could frequently visit a language institute in your town or restaurants where English is spoken this will expose you to the language and help you catch more words and enhance your listening skill. - If you manage to travel to an English speaking country,it would be a great chance to hear English everywhere go and mingle with some natives. You can learn almost few new words everywhere you go ,whether museums , restaurants, cinemas or any touristic attraction. Buying a traveling phrasal guide will help you speak with natives and the whole experience should contribute to your listening as well as your speaking skills. I hope those tips will help you somehow :)

Hi Elan, here are lots of tips for you at; http://www.italki.com/knowledge/contribution-IMPROVE+YOUR+ENGLISH+LISTENING+SKILLS.htm

This may seem strange but speaking is a perfect way to promote our listening skills. When we speak we obtain a feeling of spoken language that later helps us to understand what other speakers feel when speaking. As we can speak ourself we can feel what others can say and what they cannot say. So we feel what they feel and understand them better.

podcast is good solution.

We have two ears and one mouth, listen twice as much as we talk.