Name: Can understand English conversation, but not the news - what should you do?
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T19:55:33.000Z
Duration: 3 min 24 s
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Why is it possible to understand one type of English perfectly, but then really struggled to listen to another are moving out of this apartment tomorrow and into a new on.

You know, I'm gonna kind of miss this quintessential New York Yard view.

So one of my extraordinary speakers members asked me a good question about one of the listening exercises that we used that as an exercise for developing listening skills.

She said she's been doing the exercise a lot, and she's basically got to the point where she could understand conversational English perfect clean.

But then, when it comes to things like BBC news broadcasts, she really struggles and she can't keep up will follow what's being said.

Does this mean she just needs to do the exercise mawr?

Or is there a deeper other underlying problem?

The question really is the latter by way of analogy, think off music.

Somebody who is really good at playing classical piano might not necessarily be good at playing a rock guitar, and somebody good at playing wrong may not necessarily be good jazz.

Conversational English is very, very different to news, broadcast and newspaper English, and there is very, very little overlap between the two.

Anybody who came to my master English fast quick start event in Taipei last year were remember me showing them the data from an analysis that I did off the differences between conversational English and news broadcast English.

Basically, I showed two graphs off the 500 most common chunks in those two different times of English, and I showed that really only about 3% off those chunks actually appear in both times.

It's a very, very small number of items that are actually used in both conversation and in the news.

And what this therefore means is that studying conversation will not automatically translate into being good at understanding the news.

And studying the news will not translate into you being good at conversation.

People are studying the newspaper, but what is then gold?

Just think better in conversation where the assumption is is that English is English is English, But it's simply not true.

The language you are learning from studying a newspaper, a news broadcast is totally different to the language you are going to need and here in conversation.

Therefore, you've got to be using materials that are tailored specifically to the things that you actually want to do.

And it's the same for any other type of English.

Now I realize this is a pretty quick explanation, but if you want a deeper one that goes into more detail, head over to doing.

We stop com slash free training, and I will teach you the five key changes that you need to make to see rapid progress in in proving your English.

Speaking on as part of that, I am gonna talk in detail about what I've just talked about here, the materials that you use, the role of materials and why you need to be matching them to the things that you want to do.