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Want to completely understand everything in your target language?
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In this guide, you'll learn the top ten ways to improve your listening skills with our lessons.
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Let's begin!
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Number one, take your very first lesson.
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The best way to practice listening is to just start listening.
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Expose yourself to native speakers as much as possible... so access any audio or video lesson on the site and press the play button to get started.
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You can do the lessons on the site or on the app while you're on the go.
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Don't have an account?
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Don't worry.
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Just go to the sign-up page to create an account.
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It takes less than 30 seconds and it's free.
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Then click on the play button on any lesson and start learning.
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Number two, slow the lesson down.
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Now if a conversation is too fast for you, simply adjust the playback speed in the lesson control bar and listen to it again at a slower speed.
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This will help you understand every word.
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Another way to pick apart every word that you hear is (to) read along as you listen.
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Just read along as you listen and you'll never miss a word.
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You can read along with the lesson notes or a lesson transcript that come(s) with every lesson.
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The lesson notes give you the dialogue, the translations, and in-depth grammar tutorials.
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The lesson transcript is the full word-for-word transcript of everything you hear.
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You can also read along with the dialogue study tool, which gives you the line by line breakdown of the conversation including the audio and translations.
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Number four: listen to the line by line breakdown with the very same dialogue study tool.
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What makes this tool so powerful is you can listen to each line individually and replay it as much as you want until you understand every single word.
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This is useful for mastering fast conversations that you would miss otherwise.
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Number five, listen to the dialogue track.
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The dialogue track gives you the conversation of that lesson in the target language only, no translations.
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And you have this tool in every audio lesson.
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Listen to it and see how much you can understand.
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Number six: download the dialog tracks and make a playlist.
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This is a great immersion tactic.
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Download the tracks to your computer or mobile device.
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Then, play them on a loop to immerse yourself in the language and improve your listening skills.
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Each track is only about ten to 30 seconds so it won't take you long.
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Number seven, play the vocabulary slideshow.
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You get the slideshow study tool with all of our audio lessons and vocabulary lists.
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Click on, start slideshow, sit back and listen.
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You can also play it on loop and immerse yourself in the language.
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Number eight: get listening assignments from your Premium Plus teacher.
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You can also get assignments covering reading, writing, speaking and even listening from your teacher.
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These assignments can be tailored to your goals and needs.
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You can get a new one every week or any time you're ready for a new one.
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Number nine, take the listening comprehension lessons.
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These lessons are designed to test your listening skills.
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You'll hear a dialogue in the target language and based on the dialogue, you'll be asked to answer a question to check if you understood.
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There are no translations here except for the subtitles.
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Read along with the subtitles to understand everything.
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Number ten: get even more lessons in the lesson library.
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If you want even more lessons from absolute beginner level to advanced, then visit our lesson library.
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You get instant access to all of the pathways and lessons that will help you master all areas of the language, including listening.
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And if you're ready to finally learn language the fast, fun and easy way and start speaking from your very first lesson, get our complete learning program.
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Sign up for your free lifetime account right now.
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Click the link in the description.
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And subscribe to our channel, we release new videos every week.
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I'll see you next time, bye.