Struggling to Understand Spoken English
I've been learning English for over a year and a half and I still get stressed out every time I
watch a movie or serie
s and I don't understand what they are saying. Usually
, I can understand what the plot is all about and I get most of the
dialogue. But
, sometimes a character starts to speak in a very unclear and lazy way
and I simply don't understand anything
. I even rewind the video to listen to what I didn't understand and then I
feel like I just
started learning yesterday
, because I'm not able recognize any word that comes out of the mouth of that character, even though it seems like a very common and simple sentence.
I'm currently watching the
series Breaking Ba
d. Anyone who has watched the
series knows that there are many people who speak in a very informal
way and that the main character is a
well educated chemistry teacher with a very high vocabulary
. Curiously I've found myself understanding his long and
complicated dialogues better than those lazy and brief ones from the characters who speak in a kind of improper way.
I really want to understand spoken English
, both the informal one and formal one. However, the informal one confuses me with its laziness and the formal one makes my brain hurt with all
of those words that I don't know yet. I know even native speakers don't know all
of the words in English, I don't know all the words in my own language, but I really want to improve my listening, so
I'm going to keep practicing.
Please, correct me if I made a mistake and thanks for reading.