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English Video Immersion

Learning to listen is as important as learning to speak,
and there are many ways to listen...

Although improving your pronunciation is something that you can do yourself, you cannot change another person's pronunciation!
You just have to practise listening.


You are happy. Your lessons are coming along nicely and you are beginning to feel confident that you can speak it quite well. When somebody speaks to you, you understand them - and when you reply, they understand you. Wonderful!

But then you try to listen to a group of people all talking together in English,
and you just can't follow what they're saying. They may be speaking too fast,
or they may all have different accents.

The only way to conquer this is to listen to spoken English as often as possible.
  • Listen to English radio and television
  • Watch English films (but preferably NOT with subtitles).
  • Listen to English on-line. There are so many web-sites for 'listening'. For example:

    An excellent programme is the BBC World News with updates every 5 minutes.

    A site which has pod-casts together with text to follow is Listen to English.  Following the text while you listen is a great way to help you with the spelliing. 

    Another site for 'listening' is  Elllo. This site gives you different accents, e.g. American, South African , Australian, etc. Also with text.

    Zozanga gives you a choice of English TV stations for ESL students. 

    Try also Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab, for mainly American English

  • Remember: At first, you will not understand everything. This is quite normal.
  • Just concentrate on the words that you do understand and get the general meaning.
  • Even if you only recognize just a few words, yu will know more and more with time.
  • Don't try to translate into your own language.  It takes too much time and won't help you.


The British Council - Learn English BBC Learning English - Home Downloads
Learning English - 6 minute English English Listening World - Listening Practice
English Club - Listen to the News Sounds English - for Pre-Intermediate


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