Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Self-Assessment Of Online Listening To Podcasts

"Dancers, Artists and Merry-Go-Round Lovers Can All Enjoy This Park";
"Study of College Atletes Finds Exercise - Induced Asthma Is Common"


http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/specialenglish/2007_10/Audio/mp3/se-dev-hunger.mp3
http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/specialenglish/2007_10/Audio/mp3/se-sin-2456-digest-10-30-07.mp3
My listening theme was very interesting and funny and listening level was quite intermedia, so i did not have much difficulties with understanding. Moreover, i was surprised that it was quite easy to understand because the rate of speaking was quite slow and i could managed to understand about what there was talking. Course, there were a lot of unknown words so i have to look up for the meaning in a dictionary and listen to it one more time. So, i listened it twice and red a transcript and understood it very well.

Actually, my listening skils are not good, openly, they are quite bad especially when i have to listen to native speakers because their speaking rate is too quick for me.

In order to improve my listening skils i think i should listen more podcasts, specially, more authentic cassette recordings, whatch English films and maybe to go abroad, because then i think my listening skils and speaking,as well,will become perfect.