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| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4736 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 8 03 February 2012 at 11:46am | IP Logged | ||
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So, I have been listening to Romanian radio stations and Romanian videos. I do understand
2 words or more. But the rest I can't understand. I saw a video on about listening and he said I should listen to the language I'm learning for 30 minutes a day and then after a while, my brain will become more use to it. Does anyone have any tips on how I can improve my listening skills and recongise words when listening? Thank you :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5758 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 2 of 8 03 February 2012 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you completed a beginner's course yet? I would think you would be able to understand more than 2 words a sentence if you did. Most posters on the forum say you should get to native material as soon as you can, but you might not be ready for native material yet.
Is it just the rate that they're talking at? You can use software to slow it down, but I don't know how to do it so you would need to ask someone else. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4736 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 8 03 February 2012 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, there aren't much courses for Romanian on the internet. But I am studying from a Romanian book and I have audio lessons too. The people do speak a little fast. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4744 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 4 of 8 03 February 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have the same problem with Dutch. I've been using Assimil for a while and I can recognize pretty much everything in their audio, but when I try to watch a Dutch movie or something like that....disaster!
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5758 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 5 of 8 03 February 2012 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, I didn't know if you were just listening to the radio and thinking you would understand it or if you were going through a course too. Like I said, you may just not be ready or you just need more listening practice.
I don't know how to use it, but the program Audacity lets you edit audio clips so you might be able to slow the audio from the course down, then speed it up as you understand it better. I think being able to listen to fast native speakers is just a matter of practice. I volunteer in an advanced Enlgish class for foreigners and they complain that I talk and read too fast, although native English speakers complain about my reading and speaking speed, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5291 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 6 of 8 03 February 2012 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are free online courses available. Try this link: Where do I begin in Romanian
and check out my post and the others. To search the forum use the "g-search" function. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6732 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 03 February 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Stop listening for the general meaning and just try to separate the stream of sounds into words and sentences - unless you can do that you haven't got a chance to recognize words. Next: keep on ignoring the general meaning, but now listen for words you know. After that there is a third step (which is the hard one): learn more words, and sooner or later you will recognize so many that the general meaning will pop up in your head without further ado.
The big problem is that you could concentrate on guessing the general meaning based on single words, context and the likehood of different interpretations - and if you have to know the meaning, for instance during a travel, then may be a reasonable activity. But for language learning you also need to build a secure fundament, and wild guesses aren't helping you to achieve that. So while you still have basic problems I would suggest that you do the things I mentioned above, and when you begin to see the impenetrable fortress crumble you can start listening more and more for meaning. Edited by Iversen on 03 February 2012 at 3:32pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6626 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 8 03 February 2012 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||
i myself started learning Romanian because there are often good football streams in Romanian, especially for EPL. I then even started watching Romanian football :D Other than that, check the thread linked above, I posted there too:) It seems you might be closer to the "native materials" extreme. Me too:) Also, if you understand written Romanian better, you could try finding some materials with transcripts. Edited by Serpent on 03 February 2012 at 9:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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