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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6184 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 13 02 October 2009 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Listen to a lot of rap. If you can find speed rap in your target language try to rap along to it. It helped me to understand most of my fast talking friends with little effort.
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| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 13 02 October 2009 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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gklilx, did you happen to listen to a lot of Outsider's songs?
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6370 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 13 04 October 2009 at 8:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't agree that slowing it down is the answer. I think you need to get hundreds of
hours of listening in, even if it's just passive listening. Listening to podcasts where they speak at a natural speed (which may seem fast to the learner) is the way to go. I though German was fast, I thought French was fast, until I listened to several hundred hours of podcasts and then it just seems normal. Your brain learns to deal with the input. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| NB Groupie Canada Joined 5532 days ago 42 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Japanese | Message 12 of 13 04 October 2009 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
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For Korean, I've been just focused on taking audio and listening to it over and over again. Luckily, I'm in South Korean so I am getting tons of daily input. I've also played around with Audacity and spliced some VOA news in Korean and tried slowing it down. Good tips all around. Thanks for the link.
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6184 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 13 05 October 2009 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
Lots, but I can barely distinguish his faster lyrics unless I've read over them once or twice. But that's just the result of someone talking too fast; you WILL NOT hear everything. Of course once I memorize his lyrics I can hear them just fine. As a side note, if you're learning English, speed rap is a BAD idea because of all the abbreviations and cut up words and grammar. There's a good reason its measured in syllables instead of words. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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