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English Audio Request

asad100101
386 Words / 3 Recordings / 1 Comments

What is the most important English skill? What skill must you have to communicate well? Obviously, number 1 is Fluency. What is fluency? Fluency is the ability to speak (and understand) English quickly and easily... WITHOUT translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers-- they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. In fact, you speak and understand instantly. Fluency is your most important English goal. The research is clear-- there is only ONE way to get fluency. You do not get fluency by reading text- books. You do not get fluency by going to English schools. You do not get fluency by studying grammar rules. Listening Is The Key To get English fluency, you must have a lot of understandable repetitive listening.

That is the ONLY way. To be a FANTASTIC English speaker, you must learn English with your ears, not with your eyes. In other words, you must listen. Your ears are the key to excellent speaking. What kind of listening is best? Well, it must be understandable and must be repetitive. Both of those words are important-- Understandable and Repetitive. If you don't understand, you learn nothing. You will not improve. That's why listening to English TV does not help you. You don't understand most of it. It is too difficult. It is too fast. Its obvious right? If you do not understand, you will not improve. So, the best listening material is EASY. That’s right, you should listen mostly to easy English. Most students listen to English that is much too difficult. They don’t understand enough, and so they learn slowly. Listen to easier English, and your speaking will improve faster! Understanding is Only Half The Formula. Understanding is not enough. You must also have a lot of repetition. If you hear a new word only once, you will soon forget it. If you hear it 5 times, you will still probably forget it! You must hear new words and new grammar many times before you will understand them instantly. How many times is necessary? Most people must hear a new word 30 times to remember it forever.

To know a word and instantly understand it, you probably need to hear it 50-100 times! That's why we tell our students to listen to all of our lessons many times.

Recordings

  • The Key To Excellent English ( recorded by Earthlark ), American (Northern)

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  • The Key To Excellent English ( recorded by Ern ), US (New Jersey, tempered by Midwest and Southeast)

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  • The Key To Excellent English ( recorded by Ern ), US (New Jersey, tempered by Midwest and Southeast)

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Comments

Ern
July 29, 2010

The word "its" is spelled wrong in this sentence: "Its obvious right?" The word should be "it's." After "obvious" there should be a comma, too.

I accidentally uploaded the same sound file twice. If the site administrators would remove one of them, that would be nice. They are identical. Thanks.

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