138. How to Improve your listening skills in English – 9 tips for English Learners

Do you sometimes have trouble understanding native speakers and non-native speakers on television, movies, or in real life? Are you afraid of going into a conversation and not understanding the person you’re speaking with? Well, you’re not alone. When learning and speaking a second language, one of the biggest challenges we face is being able to understand the speakers of that language. In this episode, I’m gonna share with you strategic tips to improve your listening comprehension and practice active listening in your day-to-day life. Using these tips will allow you to develop your listening skills and feel much more confident when communicating in English. Visit this page to learn more about Beyond and join my English practice community: https://hadarshemesh.com/join-beyond/ Here are some episodes for practicing your English sounds: Understanding American English Vowels https://youtu.be/9E6F57s-V7U American T https://bit.ly/36dfRDN ‘A’ as in ‘cat’ https://bit.ly/3qQfwk7 ‘A’ as in ‘father’ https://bit.ly/3dOWYvd Sheep-Ship Vowel Pair https://bit.ly/3wnqQoS Most mispronounced words https://bit.ly/3dII3Ti More videos on Listening skills: How to Understand Native Speakers Better https://youtu.be/XSn0vk1uSFI How to Make Everyone Want to Talk to You https://youtu.be/FZdF_32EpCU

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The InFluency podcast is your go-to resource for learning, speaking and teaching English. Hadar Shemesh is a pronunciation expert and fluency coach with thousands of students around the world, though she herself was an intermediate speaker of English once. In this podcast she will share her best strategies for learning English, speaking English with confidence and mastering the American accent. Discover how becoming fluent has everything to do with acquiring the right mindset, setting goals and learning how to overcome challenges. Hadar will also share her teaching philosophy and techniques to support English teachers looking to help their students become fluent.