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| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5147 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 1 of 8 20 November 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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At my studies of languages, my greatest difficulty is hearing English. I have the
Asperger´s Syndrome and can´t listen well English in TV - I can understand personally. I need help for this. Could somebody help me? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 2 of 8 21 November 2010 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I cannot help you finding people to speak to in English. However I too find that understanding speech on TV to be fairly difficult.
Instead of TV you could use podcasts (which can be downloaded to your PC). In contrast to TV they have a pause button and you can also listen to a passage several times. But not all podcasts are good for language learning. In the best ones everybody speaks in a clear voice for a certain time, maybe the whole way through. This means that you get the time to get accustomed to the voice of each speaker. Of course having a translation (and maybe a transcript) will also be a great help Finally you should try not to go for the meaning right away, but instead just concentrate on listening to the words and phrases. If you can do thisthe meaning of those words and expressions you alrweady know will automatically pop up in your mind, but those you don't know yet won't block you. And with time you will know enough to get the whole meaning at once. All these exercises are much easier if you don't speak to a living human being, even though you miss the non-verbal cues. Edited by Iversen on 21 November 2010 at 2:37am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5147 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 3 of 8 21 November 2010 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Iversen. These are good ways. Really I didn´t think well. It´s a question of
enforces. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 4 of 8 21 November 2010 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||
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You aren't the only one here with Asperger's syndrome. I have it too, and I understand how it can make language learning difficult compared to people with normal social skills. Speaking and listening can be especially challenging for people like us.
But having Asperger's doesn't mean you can't learn how to understand spoken English well. I think the most important thing is quantity of material. Just try to listen to as much English as you can, even if you don't understand a lot. Over time, your brain will get used to the patterns and it will take less and less effort to understand what you are listening to. Try to find something that interests you, so you will be motivated to listen often. Another suggestion I have is to watch Internet videos with subtitles. For example, all the videos on the White House's YouTube channel have subtitles (click CC if they don't show up automatically), as do all the amazing speeches from the TED conferences. Edited by Levi on 21 November 2010 at 6:17am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5147 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 5 of 8 21 November 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Indeed, Asperger is most common than is thought. But it isn´t very known. I have friends
with Asperger. And they´re polyglots. Unfortunately, few people know about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 6 of 8 21 November 2010 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have this disease too, but I didn't know it hs any relation with listening comprehension.
As for my English I can understand almost everything, except movies, maybe. It's because I use this language almost all the time. You need to practice and practice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6676 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 7 of 8 21 November 2010 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Very good. Thank you. I use BBC learning English and the Naked Scientist interviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/w ordsinthenews/2010/11/101119_witn_unesco_heritage_page.shtml http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/in terview/1485/ If you know similar websites, let us know. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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