How To Improve Your Listening Skills

remember you need repetition and Novelty after a while if you're listening to the same thing over and over again the brain is picking up less and less and less hi there Steve Koffman here today I want to talk about listening skills listening skills how to get better at listening how to use listening to learn a language remember if you enjoy these videos please subscribe click on the bell for notifications so as you know I consider in input listening and reading to being to be the keys to learning a language you have to get the language into you it has to come from outside you have to get your brain used to a new language this is best achieved through listening and reading reading helps you acquire more words but listening gets your brain used to the language and of course listening comprehension is a tremendously important skill because if you're speaking to someone and we all want to speak in the language if you can't understand what they're saying what the then it's very uncomfortable and you can't have a very meaningful conversation so how do you use listening to get better in the language and what are the tips to get better at listening first of all it depends on each each person but I cannot sit down and just listen if I were to sit and I've tried it so I have whatever lesson I'm listening to and I sit down in a comfortable chair and I say I'm going to spend half an hour listening to this podcast or whatever it might be I'm incapable of doing that my mind mind wanders so I can concentrate if I have dedicated study time then I'm going to read or I'm going to work on my iPad with link so where does the listenting co g come in listening has the tremendous advantage that we can do it wherever we are I don't have my airpods handy but I have my airpods and I recently bought a new kind of airpod that sits