Shadowing Practice: The Key to Improved Listening Comprehension - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here and today I want to talk about listening comprehension, how to improve our listening comprehension, uh, based on my experience.
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Uh, remember that that listening comprehension, at least for me is, is the fundamental goal, the fundamental activity.
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You wanna understand what people are saying.
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If you can understand movies, if you can understand podcasts, if you can understand, you know, conversations, the other end of the conversation, you can eventually get to where you can hold up your end of the conversation.
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Uh, I spend up most of my time listening.
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Listening comprehension is, is where the action is in my opinion.
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Of course. I mentioned reading as a way to increase your vocabulary so that later on when you hear these words, you might have a chance to understand them.
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But listening comprehension is where I spend most of my time.
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But before I get into more detail, I want to tell you two stories.
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So first of all, Uh, the first takes place in St.
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Petersburg, Russia.
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I had been studying Russian for four years, I guess, off and on.
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I listened to audio books, Russian literature.
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I listened to political discussions from a radio station.
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I understood a lot of Russian, and I'm in St.
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Petersburg.
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I want to buy a train ticket to go to Vyborg, which is just north of, of St.
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Petersburg on the electric train.
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And so I'm waiting in line and, uh, finally it's my turn to tell the lady there behind the counter what I wanted and, uh, a certain amount of trepidation here, you know, using the language in not to listen to political discussion, but to use it in a very practical, specific situation.
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And I said, I would like to buy a ticket to go to Vyborg.
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And she comes back at me with something and I didn't understand what she said and I had to repeat and, and ask her to repeat.
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And finally, whatever she said, I can't remember.
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Uh, I got the picture and I paid her and I got my ticket.
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So that's one situation.
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Uh, another situation I was talking to, we have a Mexican gardener here in Palm Springs.
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And, uh, we were talking about different things and all of a sudden he said, uh, I said, what?
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"Pow", "pow", what's "pow"?
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And finally, I figured out it was pago.
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It had to do with his payment.
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Somehow his bank transfers weren't going through.
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What's the significance of these two little stories?
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I have found time and time again that in order to understand a part.
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Um, context, you kind of have to have experienced it before.
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So you have to be able to anticipate what is coming at you.
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And if you have not had that particular situation before, it will be more difficult.
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So the second time, or the third time that I go to buy a train ticket in Russia, it'll be easier for me 'cause I've already experienced it.
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I can anticipate what the person's going to say.
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Uh, similarly with, with this Mexican gardener, if I knew kind of roughly the context of what he was talking about, I might have been able to connect the fact that Pago to him was almost "pow", or at least I heard it as "pow".
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And this is important because there's so many different accents, even within a particular accent.
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People have different ways of pronouncing things.
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It's very important to therefore be able to anticipate.
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And what that means is when you don't understand, don't criticize yourself.
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Don't blame yourself.
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The fact that you're in a situation where you don't understand is a good thing because you have now time to think about that, and so next time around you probably will do better.
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I mean, you can do things just by dent of doing a lot of listening.
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You are exposing yourself to more different situations.
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Even if you're, you know, watching a series on Netflix, uh, you're sort of involved now in a, in an environment.
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It might be a family, it might be, gosh knows whatever is happening and as you spend more and more time in that situation, you're gradually going to understand more because you're becoming familiar with, with what people say to each other within that particular context that you have been sort of catapulted into.
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So I, I only wanna make this point because I, I think people sometimes get very upset if, if they feel they have a good level of comprehension and then they're put in a very specific situation and they have trouble understanding what is said.
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No harm done.
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You ask the person to repeat as I did with a Mexican gardener or with a, I shouldn't say Mexican.
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He's a, he's an American, but he doesn't speak English here in Palm Springs.
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Uh, or with the, uh, the lady selling the train ticket in St.
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Petersburg, I just ask again.
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And, uh, so, you know, my advice, uh, uh, in terms of listening comprehension is, you know, expose yourself to as many different accents.
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As many different situations, as many different contexts as possible.
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And recognize that there will always be situations where even some of the most basic bits of vocabulary will pass you by things that you think you should be able to understand.
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You won't understand them.
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And that's just part of improving your listening comprehension.
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And uh, and that's why I should say by the way, that exposing yourself to, you know, speaking situations, not being afraid to make mistakes, not being afraid to not understand.
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Having one situation where you didn't understand and you go back in there again.
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And the third time you will understand that particular context.
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And there are so many other contexts that you need to, you know, expose yourself to.
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Uh, so a big part of language, you know, in progressing in our languages is having a sense of confidence, and that means not becoming overly concerned about situations where you didn't understand.
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Just keep going.
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So I have talked before about listening comprehension, and I'll leave you with a couple of videos on the subject.
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I hope this is helpful.
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Bye for now.

Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları

Bu B2 seviyesindeki konuşma dersi “The Key to Improved Listening Comprehension” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: situation, listening, comprehension, context, pow. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 68 cümle ve 1053 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 6:15 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 169 kelimeyle, günlük konuşmaya yakın doğal bir hızda konuşuyor. Kelimelerin %82’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodaki en ileri düzey 11 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

KelimeTelaffuzAnlam
comprehension isim/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/anlayış, fehim
expose fiil/ɪkˈspoʊz/açığa çıkarmak
accent isim/ækˈsɛnt/vurgu, tonlama
vocabulary isim/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/kelime hazinesi, kelime kadrosu
catapult isim/ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/mancınık
trepidation isim/ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/korku, telaş
criticize fiil/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/eleştirmek, tenkit etmek
dent isim/dɛnt/çökme, göçük
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/Allah Allah, anne
podcast isim/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast
significance isim/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/önem

Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller

KelimeAnlam
figure out fiilaçığa çıkarmak

Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı you're, don't, didn't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 25 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

  • “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, trepidation /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
  • Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, trepidation /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

  • Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: trepidation /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/, criticize /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/, pronounce /pɹəˈnaʊns/
  • /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, catapult /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/

Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır

  1. Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
  2. 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
  3. Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; comprehension, expose, accent gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.

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