Name: How to Improve your English Listening Skills
Uploaded: 2014-06-16T07:25:32.000Z
Duration: 12 min 17 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

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and today, I'm going to be talking to you about

a technique that you can use  to improve your listening skills

it's a very common problem  that people ask me about all the time

it's, "Teacher, how do I improve my listening skills?"

but as soon as I start talking            all this English

so you can understand what you hear         out there in the real world

has probably been either through              the written word

and the spoken word, especially in English

No, it's "what are you going to do tonight?"

What we love to do in English is take ahhh...take

and all the little words, all the prepostions, all the articles

all those little, but very important words get                       pthppthpthpthp

squished together and not fully pronounced

Now, I'm going to show you a great technique  for doing that

when it comes to learning a language....youtube

Youtube is great because  it has a wide range of material

You can get everything  from very formal language

Also, you'll get a lot of media that's made for native speakers, right.

It's not specially made to be easier for students to understand

So, you know if you can start to  understand native speaker media

that you'll get from youtube into audio files

Finally, we're going to use an annotation program

to take that spoken word, to take those audio files

the best part about all of this is   that it is absolutely, 100% free

open your web browser     and go to youtube

Here's a video from a Canadian talk show       segment called "Best Story Ever!"

you need to copy the URL        for the downloader

I'll talk about where to find downloading        programs for both mac and pc

you  have a preview window in case you want to check              the video before you actually download it

just because it's easy to find but you can put it anywhere

After choosing your target folder click down here

The program we'll be using, Praat, only            works with .wav files

So before we can annotate this, we'll need to convert the file

But there are many services online         that will do this for free

Again, at the end of the video I'll show you  where to find some

Open your file convertor, click open file

Choose a destination folder             down here

Now that we have our .wav file, we are                   ready to annotate

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