Name: LISTEN & UNDERSTAND: How to improve your listening comprehension in English
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Listen, man. I cannot comprehend what you're saying. Hi. James from engVid. He

wants me to listen. Comprehend. "Comprehension". What is that? Well, a

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lot of lessons... and before I get started, I want to say something. This

listening... this lesson is about listening comprehension. I want to work

on it from a beginner standpoint, to intermediate and advanced. So, yes, I'm

speaking slowly right now; but if you're intermediate and advanced, don't click

away yet. Once I finish doing the lesson here; and in fact, part of this lesson

is for you — then we're going to speed up and we'll do the second part, which

will greatly benefit you in my... my belief. So, I put here: "Beginner". This

is a beginner lesson at the beginning for this first part of the lesson; but

note: If you're advanced or intermediate, this can help. So, if

you're struggling, or you're advanced and intermediate, and you still don't...

you're still not able to comprehend or take in information — the input — when

people are speaking, pay attention. All right. So, E's telling me: "Listen,

man", because he knows that listening is only half of it. You can listen, but do

you hear? My job today is to help you with that. Why is it important?

Obviously, because you want to hear what people are saying. But the other thing

is: Our listening — our input skills — help to... us to produce sound for

speaking. And the more input you can get in that's comprehensible — that you

understand — the better you will be able to speak later on; output, express

yourself. So, a vital lesson. Okay? So, first, I'm going to say right off the

bat: You need at least 250 hours to 300 hours of study, four or five hours a day

for 15 weeks before you have enough input in your brain to really start to

push a lot of the things I'm going to suggest. So, just because you do this

for two days, I'm not saying you will all of a sudden understand all of the

English people. First of all, there are different dialects from different areas,

so that's not going to work. Scottish does not sound the same as Australian,

or as American English. Heck, not even the same as some Canadian English. Okay?

So, we know this is going to take time; about 15 weeks, but try and follow these

procedures. And you might find that you jump from beginner to intermediate and

So, the first thing I'm going to see, if you're a beginner — and that means you

don't understand; you're about ten to twenty, to maybe 30% of what you hear

you understand. For me, that's a beginner. You're the first 30%. Okay?

And that's why I'm speaking so slowly. Surprise, for most of my students. Okay?

You need to get materials that you can understand 90% of. You're like:

"That's... that's like, what?" I'm like: "Yeah, that makes it difficult." Sorry,

that's just the way it's gonna be. Children's programs, like "Sesame

Street" in Spanish, or... sorry. It would be in English, because they speak

slowly and they have really good examples, so the context is there. And

you're on the internet, so you can find materials, where there will be

something, like: "The boy eats the apple." And you know: "boy", you know:

"apple", you know: "eat" — so, okay, I just don't know article "the". Okay? So,

you want to look for stuff that you can get 90% that you can understand — it's

out there — you'll have to work; that's part of your job.

Next, slow it down. So, you're going to listen to this material. And I know on

YouTube — and I have a video, so you can check it out — where I explain how you

can use YouTube to slow down videos to make even me sound, you know... go

slower; half speed to a quarter speed. Right? So, YouTube has that capability;

Netflix does — you can slow down videos. There are even apps you can use to slow

it down. And then once you slow it down, imitate the speaker. So, I want you to

copy me. I want you to copy me. Just like that. Imitate what they say. This

is going to get your body involved. There are three types of learning,

basically. There are more than three types, but the basic three teachers are

usually taught are: kinesthetic, which is body, how the body moves; audio,

people are better at listening. I know, it sounds obvious. But if these people

who are audio people don't hear things properly, they don't understand. You can

put it on paper as... it's not completely like that, but they have a

difficult time learning. Kinesthetic people, if you let them do it, do

something, write out the vocabulary — they'll understand faster than if you

explain or show a picture. Audio people need to hear it, so you can put it on

the paper, but they're like: "Say it to me" and visual people will look. Okay?

So, what I'm trying to do here is to increase your comprehension; that it's

not just an audio facility. It's not just audio. When I'm speaking, even, I'm

moving my hands and you're watching that; you're watching my movements,

you're listening to me. And you... sometimes you're moving your body with

me, or you're watching my body, seeing me and hearing me — all of these senses

improve our comprehension. Okay? So, you want to imitate the speaker, because

even in different cultures, they move their hands differently — this will help

you get more into the language, because language isn't just something that comes

out of our mouth. And even so, we have to move our mouth, which is physical.

You hear it, and we move our bodies with it. All right?

Next, listen and read at the same time. Whoa, we're getting complicated. I've

got you slowing it down, copying them, and reading. But I want you to read

first with your own language subtitles. So, if you're watching "Friends", for

example, if it's, you know... something you can do — put it in Turkish, put it

in Spanish, put it in Russian, put it in German. Yeah, put it in your language

and watch it. This is what we call: "prepping your brain". It's like when

you're going to make food at home, and you cut the onions first and the

tomatoes, you cut the... you get the chicken ready. You get it ready before

you cook it because it's very hard to cook and move everything at the same

time. So, how do we prep your brain? Because you're looking at the subtitles,

the... the TV program, or movie In English, and you're reading in your

language, you basically know what's going on, so your brain has less of a

job about trying to understand what's going on. And then it can work on the

vocabulary and the grammar. And believe me, your brain is doing that, even

though you don't think it is. It's a marvelous machine; it keeps your heart

pumping, your lungs going, and you watching this video. It's going to help

to do the translation, even though you're not actively doing it. Okay?

Now, the second time you listen to this, now listen with English subtitles. Once

again, I want you to read it, imitate them. So, now you're putting the

visual... Remember we talked about visual? The visual of what the word

looks like with what it sounds like. Some of you read a lot. You'll go: "Oh,

those words I know already." And you do; you've just never heard them. Or vice

versa, you know the words; when you see it, you'll go: "That's what it looks

like?" And your brain is getting both auditory and visual. And remember: This

lesson... this lesson isn't just listening; it's about comprehension. So,

it's going deeper in your brain that that action, that word, that sound mean

this. And you'll notice the way I'm trying to teach it to you because you're

not doing it once, but twice — your brain is going: "Okay. This is the

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