Listening strategies

Listening and speaking are the skills that people more when they're learning a language and when they already know it. Listening, and so does speaking, allows us to be able to communicate between us. So, in this entry I'm going to give you some strategies to improve your listening skills.

• The first strategy is to practise a lot. With practicing your skills will be improved considerably. Try just not to listen to what your teacher tells you, but radio programmes, films and sitcoms. They can be a good exercice and you may also have a great time!

• It's important that you don't try to undertand everything, you just have to look for key words that help you to get the whole idea.

• There are many resources on the web, like radio webpages, stories and videos on youtube that can help you to practise a little bit more.

• If you want to be sure that you understand the listening, it's good to take notes while you're doing the exercice and then make a summary about it.

As you can see, this skill shares lots of strategies with reading, so you could take a look at it and get more ideas to practise.