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How can I improve my English listening ability?To improve your listening ability, "practice makes perfect" is the only way out. There’s no shortcut. I believe shortcuts are for those talented people, not for the frustrated common brains. Just do it. But please be sure to set your hands over other aspect of English as you plough about the listening part, since English is a language, in which a manifold of skills add fuels to one another. This is a better way to have a profound English base:
Just be patient enough to get your goal step by step. Relax and have fun during the learning of English is a much healthier way. Make full use of the abundant materials and shift between ways to learn (e.g. reading today, watching TV tomorrow, going to English corner next week ... and so on) and you never get bored by English as many others have complained it to be. In fact, it’s fun. Little by little, we learn English (including listening) from what real life provides to us. Now, we are talking about listening exams!!! They are driving us nuts. Enough patience to wait for the day when your English finally sees an improvement, but it could be your sixtieth birthday. Before that, you surely got to take a lot of listening exams. In fact, when a listening comprehension exam is being taken, what counts as another core element besides the English ability is the psycho-status of the test takers. I think the fundament of English ability is static for a person during a considerable period of time. (Things do not always have skyrocketing upgrades unless a stack of steady storages precedes.) So, no matter how hard you work, you are working for an improvement in a god-knows-when day. It might well go beyond all your exams. And the KEY POINT is that, you work hard, you feel no improvement and you get nervous at the same time you listen to the tape or computer. This is VITAL!!! Being nervous has proven to be the cold blood killer of listening exam takers. You may have this experience in a listening test: There is an occasion of being stuck in a problem when you are not sure about its proper answer. Maybe the tape or computer has left you a vague pronunciation or maybe you simply do not know that word or phrase. Now, you stop and ponder over it. But the exam goes on and the tape or computer waits for no one. You lagged behind. You then put away the former one. But it’s too late, you have missed half of the next problem. This is exact the time to trigger your nervousness in the listening part. As I have stated at the very beginning, the English base is the premise to every individual sub-abilities. If you don’t know a lot of words, you are listening nothing but mysterious codes. You will be mad. Well, no one can save you. What you really need is to make up your mind to put enough time and energy to work on your BASE. If you are well based yet and still find yourself ultra-strained in the exams, perhaps those TIPS and insights I shared with you is going to give you a helping hand out of it. There’s a will there’s a way. The moment when you reach the summit and look back down on the harsh rocky ways you have survived, you are at the top of your happiness, your confidence and your will.
What you really need right now is: Practice!!! Practice!!! Practice!!! through EnglishMaster
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