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The power of improving your listening skills when learning a language.

1. English students usually have more ability to communicate what they want to say compared to what they understand.
2. Most English students don’t develop their listening skills very quickly.
3. If you improve your listening skills, it will make every other aspect of learning easier.

You will be more relaxed; your accent will improve and it will be easier to have conversations.

Resources

There are so many resources you can use to practice your English listening skills, following are just a few suggestions from the video:

And you might get some inspiration from the Polyglot, Lýdia Machová: Lýdia Machová, the secrets of learning a new language

If you really want to learn English, or any other foreign language, you have to do something with the language every day, or almost every day.

Three realities related to learning a language:

No one can teach you a language, you have to learn it.
You are the only one who can guarantee your success.

No one can do that for you. Learning is a personal non-transferable activity.

Maintaining what you’ve already learned.

When you’re learning a language, one of the most important activities is maintaining what you’ve already learned.

You have to take control of the learning process; when you take control, learning will happen much quicker!

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