5 Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills in English and Understand Native Speakers

- Hello everyone, today I would like to teach you

some of the ways you can improve your listening in English.

Listening is a really important part

of developing your fluency

and understanding native speakers more.

So now let's take a look

at five easy steps to improve your listening.

So my first tip is gonna be practice listening

while reading simultaneously.

What it means is to just use subtitles

and try to actually read them too.

One of the examples might be using subtitles

on YouTube videos for example, or using subtitles

when you watch movies.

I feel like a lot of people underestimate

the value of subtitles.

Subtitles are really important to understand the text.

Even native speakers sometimes use subtitles

when the speech is still unclear, if they wanna make sure

that they really remember everything.

I know a lot of native English speakers who use subtitles

when they watch TV shows or movies in English.

If you like listening to podcasts,

you can always download the transcripts

if they are available to your podcast

and listen while reading simultaneously.

If you like reading books,

you can also listen to audio books.

Again, simultaneously, you can read and listen.

It's a really good practice, reading while listening.

And of course, if you're using textbooks in English,

they also have a great variety of exercises

for you with the reading practice, as well as the listening.

So they always include the listening practice as well.

And when you actively try to improve

your listening in English,

there is a great system that I recommend using to everyone.

This system will tremendously help you

improve your listening in English