Learn English with Nani/ Listening

Outline:

In order to learn a second or foreign language, learners have got four skills to master. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These skills are of two kinds; receptive skills and productive skills which are listening , and reading and speaking, and writing respectively.

A. Listening:

Learners of English often tend to give more emphasis on speaking than other skills because it is all about communication and practicing the oral language. That would not happen without working on the listening skill; some would ask why? Here I came with the answer for you, listening and speaking have a mutual relationship of cause and effect, i.e., the more you listen makes you better speaker.

Some would ask: how can I practice listening well?

Listening resources are fairly available on the net, however, as a pre-intermediate and intermediate learner you should listen to sorts of records over others. Since you have been already exposed to English before, you will not find a problem to get your ear accustomed to the language.

a. As a language learner, it is good to follow youtube channels like that of BBC learning English and English with Lucy, English Vid.com and try to not watch for YouTubers using Arabic because this may cause another problem for you like mother tongue domination over the target language and mother tongue interference.

b. You can as well practice listening to increase the amount of vocabulary at your disposal through Graded readers novels where you enjoy the stories authors tell and get to know more vocabularies. Audible is a profit-platform that helps you listen to podcasts created by native speakers reading books.

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c. The time you devote to listening to the English language has a great impact on you, the more time you dedicate to listening makes better results on the ways you pronounce words and articulate sounds. Do not bother yourself with the issue of accents, even though you'd like to sound like a British or American native speaker it is good to listen to a variety of accents. Another idea for listening is to listen only for native speakers of English because there is what is called collocations, collocations are chunks of words often go together for example in English we say fast food and not quick food. Down below you will find a group of collocations used in the English language.

Word	Collocations
bitterly	Disappointing/disappointed resent criticize regret complain cry weep
deeply	Ashamed concerned shocked committed moved affected hurt (feelings) regret care religious unhappy
ridiculously	Cheap expensive easy low high long short small large early
strongly	Oppose influence believe deny recommend support condemn suggest feel argue object

Collocations	example
Make arrangements for	The team has made arrangements to welcome speakers to the seminar.
Make a change/ changes	The project manager would like to make a change in the event timetable.
Make a choice	In the end, we had to make a choice between leaving and staying.
Make a comment/ comments	My teacher has made some comments on my presentation.
Make a contribution to	My great desire is to make a contribution to my community.
Make a decision	The leader said, " it is you who make a decision! Simply because you worked so hard lately."
Make an effort	To succeed means to make an effort.
Make an excuse	Stop being rude and making excuses!
Make friends	The essential element I give much importance when attending events is to make friends.
Make an improvement	Waking up in the early morning helped me make an improvement.
Make a mistake	You need to make mistakes in order to learn.
Make a phone call	It is urgent! I need to make a phone call.
Make progress	Ali has made progress since the last year.