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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 9 of 11 23 May 2014 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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1 of the biggest obstacle is your attitude. It's like someone learning to play piano. If you believe it can
be done the rest is devising a systematic way where you can track & measure your progress. I know a few people who took piano lessons for a few years, passed a few piano exams but if you ask them to sit in front of a piano and just play a few tunes it's a different matter. Without any kind of sheet music they are uncomfortable improvising a tune on the spot. The people who can play put together a tune without a piece of paper are the ones who listen a lot. They find a song they like to learn and compare performances by various musicians. Learning a language is similar. To put yourself up to the conversational level you need to spend more time listening. Start with a few movies you enjoy watching with "captions". I prefer captions in the native language over English subtitles because you know exactly what was said. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4387 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 10 of 11 24 May 2014 at 10:35am | IP Logged |
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Yes , at times when I was listening to a given radio program it happend that in the same discussion about
the same topic there was a speaker whose I could understand almost every single word and another one I had big trouble with . There are simply people who speak even too fast and /or do not articulate words so clearly , they are propably hard to understand in our own native tongue too, let alone a foreign language . This is at least my experience . 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4172 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 11 of 11 30 May 2014 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
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Accents are obviously an issue, but also some people are simply better at grading their language so that learners can understand. Teachers in particular are trained how to do this.
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