Part 4: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

If you’ve been following this series on improving your listening skills in English, then you have already been practicing with subtitles, keeping a notebook to expand your vocabulary, and have checked out the awesome listening website, YouGlish. Part Four: Talk Back Listening to TV, movies, and videos and studying vocabulary is a great step toContinueContinue reading “Part 4: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 3: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

I hope you’ve been enjoying this series on how to improve your listening comprehension! Check out Part One here, and Part Two here. Now on to Part Three! Instead of a strategy, this part revolves around a great listening resource. Part Three: YouGlish After my first two strategies, you’ve been using the Subtitle Strategy, andContinueContinue reading “Part 3: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 2: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

If you read my last blog post, then you already know why listening skills in another language can be difficult and frustrating to improve. But luckily for language learners everywhere, there are some easy tips you can follow in order to improve your listening comprehension. Read on for part two of my five-part series onContinueContinue reading “Part 2: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 1: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

Listening to speakers in another language can be challenging at first. Often, the pronunciation is different than you expect, due to differences from your native language, the dialect of the speaker, or the situation. For example, if “r” in your language is pronounced like an English speaker’s “h”, every time you hear or pronounce anContinueContinue reading “Part 1: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Friday in a Flash: “Not my cup of tea”

Time for a quick idiom lesson! “It’s not my cup of tea.” For example: A: Do you like watching baseball? A bunch of us are going to a bar to watch the Yankees game this weekend if you want to come. B: Hmmm. Baseball really isn’t my cup of tea…but it’s better than staying home.ContinueContinue reading “Friday in a Flash: “Not my cup of tea””