Name: 提高聽力理解能力的5個小竅門--美國英語網 (5 Tips to Improve Listening Comprehension - American English)
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In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to go over five tips

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In this video, I'm going to go over five tips, five tricks, five secrets to improve

your English listening comprehension skills.

If you pay attention to all five and spend  time every day, not long! 15 - 20 minutes.

There's no way you won't improve dramatically. If you get bored working one way,

Studying pronunciation and listening skills go hand in hand.

The more you understand how Americans speak, and how to imitate that, the better you'll be

at speaking and understanding conversational English which can move at a pretty quick pace.

So the first trick to improving your listening skills is to study reductions.

How is it that Americans speak so quickly? They reduce less important words.

Let’s take for example this word: FOR.  Fully pronounced, it’s FOR.  But most of the time,

in a sentence, Americans pronounce it ‘fer’. Really fast, with a reduced vowel, fer.

So if you’re expecting to hear FOR, fully pronounced and clear,

then you’re never going to hear ‘fer’. This is for the meeting on Monday.

I’m going to be late for class. Fer, fer.

There are quite a few very common words that, just like this, Americans regularly reduce.

Knowing what they are, studying them, practicing them, will help you

identify them in a fast speaking of native English speakers.

I've put together a playlist of videos that  goes over these common words that reduce.

I'll post that playlist at the end of this video.

The second trick to improving your listening skills is to study  how Americans link words together.

Linking words together is another way that Americans are able to speak so quickly but still be clear.

When you study linking and the ways Americans link words and sounds,

it makes it easier to understand native speakers.

There are specific cases and rules. For example, when you’re linking a word that ends in the EE vowel,

a very common ending sound in American English,

it helps to put a Y sound in between the words.

Americans do this without thinking about it.

“He always”.  Heeeeeyal-ya-ya-yyalways.

It sounds like ‘yalways’.  He yalways.  He always.

The Y is a glide consonant, so we can use it to smoothly glide between words.

I have a playlist of videos that goes over the cases and rules for linking which I’ll put at the end of the video.

Studying this will make Americans easier to understand, and make your English more beautifully American.

The third trick to improving your listening skills is to study the specifics of native speech.

Great.  Everyone wants to do that. HOW do you do that?

I’ve come up with an exercise to study native speech that I call a ‘Ben Franklin’ exercise.

In these videos, I take a small segment of natural, conversational, native speech,

We look at intonation, stress, words that reduce, linking.

This set of Ben Franklin videos does it all for you so you can understand HOW to study the

audio and video clips of native speakers, and how to get the most out of your studies.

Lots of interesting things happening here. I noticed first of all that I've dropped the tea here.

What did you do? I'm also noticing I'm getting more of a J sound here.

So the D and the Y here are combining to make the J sound so we have

Wha - di - ju... Whadidju, whadidju, whadidju.

At the end of this video, I’m going to put a link to a playlist of these Ben Franklin exercises.

Trick number four:  Find a short audio or video clip of a native speaker that has a transcript.

I’ll give you ideas of where to find these at the end of the video.

Before you look at the transcript, listen or  watch, and try to write down the transcript.

Keep it short, 10 or 20 seconds of video or audio.

Listen several times and do your best to write down exactly what’s being said.

What are the words and phrases you missed?

Listen again and try to figure out why you missed them.

Was the stress different than you thought?

Was one of the words reduced so much that you didn’t hear it?

Was there a word you’ve never heard of before?

When you figure out WHY you didn’t understand it, it’s going to help you get it next time.

Keep track of those words and phrases you couldn’t understand, and use them with tip five.

The fifth trick for improving your listening skills

is to listen to a variety of native speakers say the word or phrase

that you have a hard time hearing or understanding.

where you can plug in a word or a phrase and hear hundreds of examples of native speakers

using that word or phrase in conversational English.

Let’s say I didn’t understand the phrase “I want to do that” as "I wanna do that"

when I was working on a podcast listening comprehension exercise.

I type it in, with quotes, and I select US here for American English.

Now it loads a series of videos, all queued up to this phrase that I can listen to in a row.

Use this button to skip to the next example.

"It takes me like an hour and 15 minutes to get here, I wanna do that and..."

"You're gonna come and help me and you say no I don't really think I want to do that..."

"See others doing it and say, wow! I want to do that with my own..."

"You know, I want to do that..." "I'm want to do that and give you a call..."

"And I want to do that today..." "I want to do that, just tell me how to do that..."

"If I want to do that, I need these key..." "I remember thinking I want to do that."

"I want to do that..." "I want to do this, I want to do that..."

"I want to do it. Do I want to do that or do I want to..."

Wow, everyone said wanna. As you hear  one example, pause it, and imitate it.

Listen to 10, 15, 20 different people say your problem word or phrase

and spend some time saying it out loud yourself.

What do you notice?  Is there a Stop T? Is there a reduction?

The next time you hear it in conversation or a movie,

There you have it.  My top five secrets, my top tricks for improving your listening comprehension.

Aren’t you sort of excited to get working on one of these tricks right now?