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| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4832 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes  | Message 1 of 2 12 September 2011 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
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I read an older post asking how one may improve their listening ability in their target
language and felt compelled to toss in my two cents. This is merely a suggested method that I hope can help others in some form or another. ---------- For my example I will be using German, but surely with whatever your target language is you'll be able to apply these same methods some how. 1.) It has become more and more popular to produce slowly spoken audio clips from native speakers to aid the learner. In German, Deutsche Welle produces a daily podcast called 'Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten' that lasts between 5 and 10 minutes covering world news that you can access through iTunes or their website (http://www.dw- world.de/dw/0,,8030,00.html) Now these broadcasts are purposely recorded at a slower rate of speech (which sounds better), but if you'd like to use different audio material then you can open your audio or video file in VLC and actually control the rate of playback (faster or slower) with the '<<' and '>>' buttons on either side of the status bar. 2.) Use the aforementioned link above to also access the transcript of the 'Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten'. You'll be able to follow along word for word as well as look up unknown words and apply them to your vocabulary learning method of choice if you wish. 3.) The link from before also has a downloadable link for each news broadcast at a normally spoken tempo in MP3 format that you could listen to afterwards. 4.) After you've sufficiently prepared yourself with the material at hand you can speed up the audio using VLC player using the previous method. However, if you added the podcast to your iPod you will be able to click on the screen with your finger and select the button to make the audio come out at a speed twice as fast. The idea is that you'll have already been so familiar with the material that you will have hardly any need to think about the words being spoken and simply understand. ---------- Again, a mere suggestion. Hopefully someone will find this to be an enjoyable/useful method. Edited by Kyle Corrie on 12 September 2011 at 4:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5259 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 2 12 September 2011 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Klye,
Nice to get an insight into what other learners are up to! I am a German learner and also use DWs Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten to improve my listening comprehension. Having the slowed down news audio and transcript daily is a great offering by the people at DW. However I adopt the lazy man option when it comes to using it! 1. In the morning I listen in L2 and read in L2 to the Langsam gesprochen Nachtrichten. 2. Then in the evening I just listen in L2 to the normal speed spoken news update on DW for German listeners (not on the learn germen section but on their main page). That's it. What's great is early that morning I have studied the news (i.e. got the quick vocab and most importantly the hunch of that days news in L2 German) then later in the day I listen at normal German speed. The evening news subject matter will have changed but most themes stay similar and I just try to listen as best I can. The disadvantage is, of course, that you don't get colloquial German from the news. But as part of a healthy diet you go elsewhere for that! Viel Spaß beim Deutschlernen! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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