{"id":512,"date":"2009-11-28T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-12-05T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:48:16","slug":"listening-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/listening-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeokuta.org\/Music.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Listen-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Listen\" title=\"Listen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Listen-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Listen-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Listen-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Listen.jpg 1507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Listening is an integral part of language learning, but when you\u2019re just starting out, it can be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>To me, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/spanish.html\">Spanish<\/a> sounds impossibly fast, which scares me. I start to wonder if I will ever be able to understand, and this inhibits my ability <em>to<\/em> understand.<\/p>\n<p>So, my tip for the day is: don\u2019t try and listen to every word that is said.<\/p>\n<p>Even at my basic level, I try and catch a word or two and pick up the gist of the sentence. This can go wrong \u2013 if I miss a negative for example \u2013 but works reasonably as long as I am aware of the context of the situation. When I\u2019m ordering in a restaurant and the server asks an unexpected question, I know it is likely to be something about the food, so I try and concentrate on picking out any food-related words. It also helps to ask the speaker to repeat what they are saying slightly more slowly.<\/p>\n<p>I also try and look at the speaker as much as possible, so I can gain clues to what they\u2019re saying from body language. There are many gestures that are universal so you may be able to pick up what is said from there. <\/p>\n<p>My final piece of advice? Try not to be scared! The more you listen, the more familiar the language will be. And soon, you\u2019ll find that no one is speaking <em>impossibly<\/em> fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening is an integral part of language learning, but when you\u2019re just starting out, it can be difficult. To me, Spanish sounds impossibly fast, which scares me. I start to wonder if I will ever be able to understand, and this inhibits my ability to understand. So, my tip for the day is: don\u2019t try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40,327],"tags":[430,431,123,426,427,330,428,429],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","category-spanish","tag-body-language","tag-gestures","tag-language-learning","tag-listen","tag-listening","tag-speaking","tag-understand","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}