My personal experience in listening to VOA

My personal experiences in listening to VOA:

1. long stream-persistence in listening exercises

There is no quick way to cultivate your listening ability. Only by persistently sticking to it for a long time and conducting regular listening exercises can you achieve stable improvement, the practice frequency is too small or high-density, and can be controlled within half an hour to an hour every day.

2. timed quantification-reasonable arrangement of listening exercises

The so-called timing refers to the regular period of time every day for listening exercises. The specific time varies from person to person. It is best to choose a time period with a good personal mental state. For example, at noon every day is the time when Cher does not move his or her exercises. This is very important. Only by identifying a limited exercise period can he or she pay more attention to this exercise and stick to it more easily, it is difficult to stick to it for a long time if you choose to exercise at will every day.

The so-called quantification means that the exercise volume should be relatively stable and can be adjusted in stages, but the adjustment scope should not be too large to avoid increasing the individual burden.

3. Jump Out Of The mindset-appropriately expand the pan-listener Exercise Scope

Standard VOA materials belong to news broadcasts. Although the pronunciation of several hosts is distinctive, they are all relatively standard English. They only listen to VOA recordings, it's easy to get stuck in the regular shape-you don't understand it with a different accent. In order to avoid this situation, you can watch more English movies at ordinary times, learn more about English pronunciation, and improve the practical application of English.

4. Three goals-focusing on translation and reading

Friends who often listen to VOA know that every day's VOA exercises have three links: listening, translation, and reading. Many people only do listening exercises and ignore translation and reading. In fact, this is not suitable, this will greatly compromise the exercise effect. Cher's practice is to first read and practice the VOA material as a piece of listening material and complete the homework each day. Then, listen to VOA to further improve the listening level, improve the translation level. Why is it.

5. Long Talk-the expansion of vocabulary is king

Most of the time, it is because the vocabulary is insufficient. If we do not know any English word, we certainly cannot understand any English word. Therefore, the amount of vocabulary is the biggest factor restricting the listening level. Only by constantly expanding the vocabulary can we fundamentally improve our listening level.

In particular, it takes at least 1000 hours to improve the listening performance by step. The combination of listening and fan listener is required. When you hear about 400 hours, it may take about a week or so, and you may not understand anything. Don't worry. Here is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.