How to effectively improve English listening and writing

It's also good to listen to English songs, and it can also have an entertainment effect.

As for how to improve your English listening, of course, communicating with foreigners is the most effective, but how do we find ways to communicate with foreigners in China? Here I recommend a free voice chat with foreigners**, which is described in detail in the reference blog.

(1) Combination of extensive listening and intensive listening.

In listening training, it is necessary to be able to accurately listen to some important data, dates, names, place names and facts, and to take into account the training of grasping the general idea. In intensive listening, we should first be familiar with the new words in the listening materials, and we can listen to this difficult sentence repeatedly: and extensive listening first focuses on the large amount, only to grasp the general idea, do not have to understand every detail, the number of intensive listening is not limited, until it is fully understood, the number of times of extensive listening is determined by the difficulty of the material and their own degree, generally not more than three times otherwise it will lose the meaning of extensive listening, when listening to pan, it is not appropriate to interrupt in the middle, to do it in one go, intensive listening can stop the machine between sentences or difficult places, rewind and rehearse.

If you are not refined, you will develop the habit of being plausible and not seeking to understand, on the contrary, you will see the trees but not the forest, and you will not be able to grasp the carelessness. Therefore, neither of these two types of training should be neglected.

2) Ability to eliminate noise and all kinds of interference: To cultivate this ability for the country, we must listen to more news broadcasts, listen to audio reports that cannot see the speaker's mouth, gradually adapt to people's habit of adding hesitation fillers such as "well" and "eh" when speaking, and sometimes the phenomenon of suddenly changing to another sentence in the middle of speaking, and strive to be able to make the recording unclear and not half a word, or the speaker lowers his voice. Soon the words and phrases that passed by were correctly added.

3) Have the ability to adapt to British pronunciation, American pronunciation and some major dialects: Ear training can take the approach of starting with one pronunciation and gradually transitioning to another. In order to quickly master the ability to listen to British and American sounds, learners can take the initiative to summarize or compare the differences in pronunciation and intonation between the two English, so as to better overcome this hurdle.

For example, in the United States, the combination letters such as or and er should also add [r] sound: doctor [ ] English pronunciation), [American pronunciation): put [a:

The pronunciation is [ ] sound: can'Pronunciation characteristics such as t[ka:nt] (English pronunciation), [k nt] (American pronunciation).

For the northern part of England and Scotland, there are such special pronunciations and words, as well as some variations in American black English, Australian and New Zealand English, if there is no special need, it is generally possible not to practice and not learn. But with some proper understanding, listening to one or two sample recordings is also beneficial.

4) Time arrangement of listening trainingHearing training requires a high degree of concentration, so the time arrangement should be at the best time of the day. Moreover, the time should not be too long, and the first should be more than an hour of continuous listening. Listening is also a natural skill training, so schedule a period of time every day.

You can't fish for three days, dry your nets for two days, and you can't listen to it for a while, and then throw it away for half a year or a year.