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| colingreen47 Newbie Germany Joined 5068 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 8 14 June 2010 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||
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There are several ways to improve your listening skill but the best way is to watch movies or listening to songs with subtitles, this way you can read what you are listening and understand better.
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6883 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 8 14 June 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
The problem with movies + subtitles is that the latter rarely seem to match the audio in the former. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Max_Italia Newbie Italy Joined 5052 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Studies: English | Message 3 of 8 21 June 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
I agree. Also i do the same thing, principally 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5124 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 4 of 8 21 June 2010 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Movies are hardly ever correctly translated. That's the one good thing you can watch
foreign movies and know what they are really saying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5336 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 8 21 June 2010 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Once I've reached an intermediate stage and can get the basic gist, I always off turn the subtitles so I can focus more on listening and body language. I don't think I've ever learnt more than a word or two at very best from watching foreign films with subs, and I've watched loads in many different languages during my lifetime so far. But then again, maybe that's just me.
Instead I tend to always remove subtitles right from the very beginning when learning a language, as I find this really helps sharpen by ability to recognise new words I've learnt that particular day. It also further consolidates my ability to hear more commonly used words throughout the early stages of learning, and I don't end up missing so much of the movie anymore by reading the captions underneath. Edited by Teango on 21 June 2010 at 2:25pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ronmiel Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 8 22 August 2010 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour a tous
I know this subject has done to death like a lot of other subjects but i feel as though i've tried a lot of the recommended stratergies without a lot of success. I have being seriously studying French for almost eight months and have 'completed' Assimil new French with ease. I feel i can understand each lesson both reading and listening and i have just started Assimil using French. I passed the DELF A2 level in June. I found the listening exercises during the workbooks and the test itself a little difficult but did enough to pass the exam but the listening score was lowest. I've been listening to TV5 monde almost from the first day i started studying French and i've also tried listening to podcasts, audio books and news broadcasts while reading a transcript and my listening really doesn't seem to be improving. I study for at least 2 hours a day, a lot of the times 3 hours a day. I do Assimil, read a lot, practice makes perfect verb tenses workbook, podcasts and watch a lot of TV5 monde. If there are any additional tips than the ones everyone has previously mentioned i would love to hear them, if not i'll just keep up with the audio books and TV5 monde. Thank you for any advice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5127 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 7 of 8 22 August 2010 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | ||
First of all, welcome to the forum, ronmiel! As you said this topic is discussed quite often on the forum: that proves that you are not alone in finding listening comprehension challenging. Keep getting as much exposure to authentic material as is reasonably possible: I believe this is the most important factor for improving comprehension. One thing that I usually find useful is to add some more active ‘exercises’ to your routine extensive listening. What I mean is that when you listen to the radio or to a podcast or you watch TV, you make huge efforts trying to understand everything that’s being said (extensive listening), unfortunately ending up most of the times only getting the gist of the programme. Instead, if you are forced to find an answer to a question (as is usually the case in tests), you can usually get better results (and a confidence boost) from your listening because not only are you more focussed (because you are searching for a specific piece of information) but also because the question itself will give you a hint on what you are about to hear (and expectation plays a great role in language understanding). I find that this method is effective for me, so you may want to try it to see if it works for you too. Luckily, you can find quite a lot of material online for French (although several programmes are now on a summer hiatus): for instance on the RFI website: http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp and on the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/news/topic_focus/franc e.shtml If you find these programmes are still too difficult, maybe try this link as well: http://www.ur.se/Ung/Amnen/Sprak/Franska/Nyheter/ It’s from a Swedish site, and the French used here seems easier to me. To listen to the audio click on ‘Nouvelles en français från …’ in orange near the top of the page. After listening and answering, click ‘Rätta’ at the bottom of the page to see which ones you got right and which ones you missed. On the left column there’s an archive with previous articles (I think the dates are quite transparent even if they are written in Swedish). I hope this helps. Good luck with your studies. PS. Delete the blanks in the links. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ronmiel Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 8 22 August 2010 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello Emme
Thank you for your welcome and advice/links. I have been a long time reader of the forum and have used a lot of posters methods in my study. I have tried the RFI site and the B2 level excercises i find very hard. I want to attempt the DELF B2 next January and since listening was the weakest aspect of my A2 test, i have a lot of work to do on it. I haven't done a lot of active listening exercises lately, i did when i was studying for the A2 but as you know A2 isn't high. I'm going to get the B2 study book shortly so maybe doing the excercises in that book will help. Thanks for your reply. On a side note I've been wanting to start Italian for a long while but have always held off for fear of ruining my fledgling French but i will get to it soon, hopefully after passing the B2 exam. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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