1. Improve pronunciation

This is the first thing you need to do. Recognizing sounds correctly will help you hear them.

If you can pronounce the word "environment" correctly, it means you can immediately recognize what sounds this word includes, where the stress is, and what the intonation is like when you hear the word.

However, learning to pronounce each sound one by one will certainly be very boring, and we can completely change our learning style with the "SHADOWING METHOD".

When watching movies, listening to the radio, watching Youtube,... pay attention to how native speakers pronounce, how they move their mouth and lips, then imitate exactly the way they pronounce. Keep practicing over and over again, you will be surprised at how quickly you improve.

2. Listen anytime, anywhere

To improve your listening skills, you will definitely have to listen a lot, actively listen, passively listen, anytime, anywhere.

You can listen through news, podcasts, songs, audiobooks,... Let your ears be "flooded" with English. This is called “passive listening,” and it has at least two benefits:

- Helps your ears get used to sound, stress, intonation, and intonation. Once your ears get used to it, your listening skills will definitely improve.

- Helps you build vocabulary. The more you listen, the more words you will know. The more you know, the more you understand, and your listening skills will increase

Start listening to content you like, then you can move on to different topics.

You should also read many different documents to expand your input, also your background knowledge, this will help you improve your listening skills.

3. Watch movies with English subtitles

Why should you watch English-language movies?

 

If you had to choose between books, audio tapes, and movies, what would you choose? It's definitely a movie, isn't it, because movies are much more interesting.

When you like something, and really focus on it, your listening ability will also improve.

There are many movies set in real life, so the language in the movies is also everyday language, more natural than in books.

Watching movies will help you learn vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation better (all of these are called input).

And I also want to emphasize that watching movies will help you improve your pronunciation a lot, because pronunciation is very important when listening because it will determine whether you can recognize the sound or not.

4. Speaking Practice

The above two ways are called "passive listening" - passive listening. And we will also have to listen actively by listening and reacting to what we just heard.

Listening and speaking at the same time will help you practice better reflexes through conversations, and it will also be more interesting than passive listening.

When listening, you can guess what the other person is about to say, analyze and synthesize based on the information previously given. These are also considered effective strategies to improve listening skills.

Listening and speaking always go together. If you can say a word, you can hear it clearly, and this is always true. And if you have the opportunity to talk to native speakers, you can learn standard English from them.

5. Practice Deep Listening

DEEP LISTENING - What is deep listening?

This means you actively listen to the same content over and over again. Language is built on a foundation of awareness and habits. This can help you improve your memory of vocabulary, phrases, structures and pronunciation.

How to choose listening materials that are right for you?

Step 1: Choose the content you love

Step 2: Choose content that is not too complicated, you should choose content that you can hear about 70% or more.