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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.

Uh, remember that that listening comprehension, at least for me is, is the fundamental goal, the fundamental activity.

You wanna understand what people are saying.

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.

Uh, I spend up most of my time listening.

Listening comprehension is, is where the action is in my opinion.

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.

But listening comprehension is where I spend most of my time.

But before I get into more detail, I want to tell you two stories.

So first of all, Uh, the first takes place in St.

Petersburg, Russia.

I had been studying Russian for four years, I guess, off and on.

I listened to audio books, Russian literature.

I listened to political discussions from a radio station.

I understood a lot of Russian, and I'm in St.

Petersburg.

I want to buy a train ticket to go to Vyborg, which is just north of, of St.

Petersburg on the electric train.

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.

And I said, I would like to buy a ticket to go to Vyborg.

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.

And finally, whatever she said, I can't remember.

Uh, I got the picture and I paid her and I got my ticket.

So that's one situation.

Uh, another situation I was talking to, we have a Mexican gardener here in Palm Springs.

And, uh, we were talking about different things and all of a sudden he said, uh, I said, what?

"Pow", "pow", what's "pow"?

And finally, I figured out it was pago.

It had to do with his payment.

Somehow his bank transfers weren't going through.

What's the significance of these two little stories?

I have found time and time again that in order to understand a part.

Um, context, you kind of have to have experienced it before.

So you have to be able to anticipate what is coming at you.

And if you have not had that particular situation before, it will be more difficult.

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.

I can anticipate what the person's going to say.

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".

And this is important because there's so many different accents, even within a particular accent.

People have different ways of pronouncing things.

It's very important to therefore be able to anticipate.

And what that means is when you don't understand, don't criticize yourself.

Don't blame yourself.

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.

I mean, you can do things just by dent of doing a lot of listening.

You are exposing yourself to more different situations.

Even if you're, you know, watching a series on Netflix, uh, you're sort of involved now in a, in an environment.

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.

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.

No harm done.

You ask the person to repeat as I did with a Mexican gardener or with a, I shouldn't say Mexican.

He's a, he's an American, but he doesn't speak English here in Palm Springs.

Uh, or with the, uh, the lady selling the train ticket in St.

Petersburg, I just ask again.

And, uh, so, you know, my advice, uh, uh, in terms of listening comprehension is, you know, expose yourself to as many different accents.

As many different situations, as many different contexts as possible.

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.

You won't understand them.

And that's just part of improving your listening comprehension.

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.

Having one situation where you didn't understand and you go back in there again.

And the third time you will understand that particular context.

And there are so many other contexts that you need to, you know, expose yourself to.

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.

Just keep going.

So I have talked before about listening comprehension, and I'll leave you with a couple of videos on the subject.

I hope this is helpful.

Bye for now.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“The Key to Improved Listening Comprehension”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：situation, listening, comprehension, context, pow。這段影片共有 68 個句子、1053 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:15。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 169 個詞，接近日常對話。 82% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 13 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
comprehension 名詞	/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/	理解, 瞭解 /瞭解
expose 動詞	/ɪkˈspoʊz/	揭露, 暴露
anticipate 動詞	/ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/	預料 /預料, 預想 /預想
accent 名詞	/ækˈsɛnt/	重音, 腔調 /腔調
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	詞匯 /詞彙, 語匯 /語彙
catapult 名詞	/ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/	彈射器 /彈射器, 投石機 /投石機
trepidation 名詞	/ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/	驚恐 /驚恐, 驚惶 /驚惶
criticize 動詞	/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/	批評 /批評
pronounce 動詞	/pɹəˈnaʊns/	宣稱 /宣稱, 宣告
overly 副詞		過於 /過於, 過分 /過分
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	唉, 啊呀
podcast 名詞	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	播客
significance 名詞	/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/	重要性

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
figure out 動詞	弄清楚
go through 動詞	通過 /通過

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 25 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, don't, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, trepidation /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, trepidation /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, catapult /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/, criticize /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, catapult /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 comprehension, expose, anticipate 這類單詞。

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