🎧Listening practice strategies

Loop a video (play on repeat):

• • in Chrome, the Play button will appear as a "Loop" button

  • in Edge, right-click on the Play button and choose "Loop"

  • on a device, open the settings wheel and choose "loop"

Slow down or speed up a video:

• • in a browser or device, open the settings wheel and choose "Playback speed"

Rewind a certain amount in a video:

• You can double-tap to the left or right on a YouTube video and it will jump back or forward by ten-second increments. You can change the amount of time that it jumps in the settings. (Thanks to Nick Prior at tibetanlanguage.school for the tip on this one)

Hide YouTube controls 

when paused (if they're blocking text on the screen, for example):

• Hyde extension for Chrome lets you hide the YouTube controls when you press Ctrl+M.

Make your own audio 

The best thing to do, once you are confident about your pronunciation, is to start to make your own audio practice files.

Record yourself reading texts aloud. 

I use the format of English sentence, Tibetan sentence, then at the end of the dialogue I read out the words that I am not familiar with, English then Tibetan. 

This lets me test myself as I am listening.