English Listening Practice

This site was created to help language learners improve their listening comprehension and understand native speakers better. Currently, there are 47.000 exercises and 62 texts on the site in 15 languages (see them below) using native recordings from Tatoeba.org and Librivox.org. There are 400.000 translations available in 178 languages to help you understand the sentences whatever your native language may be. You can also practice the conjugation of more than 3000 verbs in 4 languages.

Active listening is one of the best ways to build your interpersonal relationships and establish closer connections, especially with team members. This soft skill is a key part of conflict resolution, problem solving, and constructive criticism.

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Conflict resolution. Some of the best conflict resolution happens one on one. If a coworker comes to you with a workplace conflict, use active listening to understand their point of view. Active listening helps you approach the situation with an open mind, and more effectively find a solution.

Collaboration. The better you're able to connect with team members, the more effectively you can collaborate. When team members share ideas or opinions, use active listening techniques to fully hear them. By removing judgment and putting aside your own inner monologue, you can more effectively understand what your team member is trying to say, communicate your own thoughts in return, and increase collaboration as a result.

If you find that you are having trouble with listening, you might benefit from professional treatment. Other options include engaging in social skills training or reading self-help books on interpersonal skills.

Active listening helps you build trust and understand other people's situations and feelings. In turn, this empowers you to offer support and empathy. Unlike critical listening, active listening seeks to understand rather than reply. The goal is for the other person to be heard, validated, and inspired to solve their problems.

The three A's of active listening are attention, attitude, and adjustment. Attention entails being fully tuned in to the speaker's words and gestures. The proper attitude is one of positivity and open-mindedness. Adjustment is the ability to change your gestures, body language, and reactions as the speaker's story unfolds.

Reflection is the active listening technique that demonstrates that you understand and empathize with the person's feelings. In mirroring and summarizing what they've said, they feel heard and understood.

There are numerous ways to improve your active listening skills. One is to watch skilled interviewers on talk and news shows. Another is to research active listening techniques online and try them often in your everyday conversations, noting the speakers' reactions and looking for areas that need improvement.

Evening folks (or morning, afternoon, whatever)

Does anyone know of any third party stuff that uses audio? I need to tune in my listening skills. Maybe using the audio we get when we learn Vocab? I find that even using WaniKani as a supplement I struggle to recognise words I should know when I hear them from my tutor, in videos, songs etc

I suppose JapanesePod101 will suit you nice. They have an Absolute Beginner (N5) and a Beginner (N4) sections so you can ease yourself into listening without much pain. I personally recommend to start with any of podcasts hosted by Naomi-sensei.

I recommend using a shadowing book, e.g. below. It builds up from simple sentences to more complex dialog and includes transcriptions (Japanese) and translations (English, Korean, Chinese). Really good for training your listening comprehension.

I (22M) have recently started my journey to learn this amazing language and was wondering if there were any good (preferably free) podcasts, audiobooks, etc. that would be good for a nearly complete beginner to start practicing listening and expanding my vocabulary.

you have such great audio for example sentences. Do you plan to implement a listening practice section where you can cram like for example all N5 sentences audios where you first listen to the example and then see the japanese and translation after pressing a button?

I have made a video where I provide some listening practice in slow and deliberate Norwegian for beginners. I think this is a good way of starting to learn listen to the language. I will add subtitles later, but the transcript is available at the website for the YouTube channel (and podcast).

And there's some more on youtube but they are all questions and answers, and I want to listen to conversations, or just someone talking about their day. The practice tests works fine but I need more stuff to listen to when I'm doing something.

The learning materials in this section are written and organised by level. There are recordings of different situations, and interactive exercises that practise the listening skills you need to do well at school, get good marks in your tests and exams, and get more out of your free-time activities.

Take our free online English test to find out which level to choose. Select your level, from beginner (CEFR level A1) to advanced (CEFR level C1), and improve your listening skills at any time and at your own speed.

The following dictation, auditory discrimination and listening comprehension activities are based on topics found in the Florida Adult ESOL Frameworks. They were developed to reinforce English grammatical patterns used to elicit meaning from spoken sentences.

In narrating the musical life of Chinese immigrants in the United States of the nineteenth century, one of the most difficult challenges is its sound. The sound did not exist. Presumably, one could trace the sound through a careful study of the performing history of Cantonese opera, the popular genre that enchanted Chinese immigrants, the majority of whom came from the Pearl River Delta of southern China. Chinese theaters performing Cantonese opera proliferated in cities and mining and railroad towns throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, with four concurrent Chinese theaters in San Francisco by the end of the 1870s. However, Cantonese opera went through significant changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leaving limited sources for scholars to fully grasp the performance practice and repertoire of the nineteenth century. Although books of lyrics of classic verses and scripts of traditional Cantonese opera exist, their relation to the performance practices of this period, which also relied heavily on improvisation, remains little known. Lacking historical sources of the opera genre is not, however, the primary problem. Erasure is.

What you need is a free and complete TOEFL practice test with an answer key that explains the answer to each question. Not only that, but this test should include speaking responses and essay samples so you know how to speak and write on test day.

Often, while we are listening, we are thinking of how we will respond. We might get distracted and miss some of what was said. We may not be paying much attention to the nonverbal communication cues of the speaker.

Active listening requires the listener to pay close attention to what is being communicated verbally and nonverbally. The listener is encouraged to interpret not only the content of what is being said, but also the emotions present and the body language.

Psychologists Carl Rogers and Richard Farson (1987) are responsible for defining the concept of active listening. They describe the skill as vitally important for effective communication. For Rogers, the ultimate goal of active listening was to foster positive change (Rogers & Farson, 1987). This change can occur in the context of a client/helper relationship or in the context of a group.

Empathy is demonstrated in active listening by the listener reflecting the thoughts and feelings of the speaker. These thoughts and feelings are believed, supported, and respected. They are not dismissed or challenged.

Active listening requires true feelings of respect toward the individual speaking. The listener accepts and supports the speaker regardless of the content of their words. This illustrates the principle of unconditional positive regard.

Active listening has been shown to be a vital skill in counseling. Empathy and empathic listening foster the therapeutic relationship, and the relationship between therapist and client has been shown to be the one of the most crucial and stable predictors of client success (Martin, Garske, & Davis, 2000).

Another benefit of learning active listening as a counselor is that it may increase self-efficacy. Levitt (2002) examined the impact of teaching active listening to counseling students and found that this skill created greater levels of confidence in the students and helped to reduce their anxiety as new counselors.

Kubota, Mishima, and Nagata (2004) examined the effects of an active listening training program on middle managers, finding positive results. In workplaces, a large portion of stress experienced by employees comes from interpersonal relationships.

The study showed that teaching managers who learned active listening skills were better able to support employees with mental health issues, providing a safe environment for them to share their difficulties without judgment. This led to calmer behaviors and more success (Kubota et al., 2004).

Can active listening skills even work through text conversations? Perhaps so. A unique and interesting study looked at the application of active listening to written communication online (Bauer & Figl, 2008). This case study was examining soft skills among computer science students and to see if active listening could come across in instant message conversations.

Bauer and Figl (2008) found that all the different techniques of active listening translate well into text conversations and that using these techniques had positive outcomes in communication. Although the students showed skepticism that it would work, they found that all the skills worked well, even online.