5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Chinese Listening Skills
It is essential that when listening, one has to pay attention to the Chinese native
speaker's pronunciation, intonation, control the four tones, tempo, idiomatic usages and body language where present. Listen attentively and with a focused mind.
Listening is the most essential ability of mastering Chinese language. You need to comprehend what people are expressing before you can speak. If you're self-learning Chinese, I would suggest you purchasing a Chinese audio learning program to demonstrate you exactly how the phrases and sentences are pronounced.
Here are 5 resources you can use to dramatically improve
your Chinese listening skills:
1. listening to sounds on CD
There are commercial materials available, or you can make your own. Place your
monster Beats headphones to listen to a sound and do a specific activity.
2. Listen Lots
To improve your listening you need to listen to natural Chinese lots...as much as you can. Sure you can listen to Chinese tapes and follow along with Made For Chinese CDs, but these rarely match real language in terms of speed. People learning Chinese (or any language) need to get as much natural speed input as they can.
3. Chatting with a Chinese friend on Skype for 60 minutes once a week
4. Watch a Chinese movie and Chinese TV news regularly
5. Repeat
Really simple here, done it once? Great, now do it again...and again...and again on a regular schedule, in different situations and on different topics. Listening well involves more than just understanding the words. It involves understanding the context (the place) and being able to understand the language being used in context.
Additionally, there are four aspects need to be noted when communicate with people in your poor Chinese.
Don't be afraid--The more you fear listening to chinese, the more you are unwilling to get opportunities to listen.
Don't be shy--Try to grasp opportunities to listen to chinese, for example, watch chinese TV program, have conversation with chinese-speaking friends or teachers, and listen to chinese channels on the radio. Even if you cannot follow what is said, ask for clarification if you are chatting with your friends
Don't get nervous--If you cannot understand what is said in a TV program or on the radio, just continue to listen. The more you practice, the more you will improve in listening
Don't panic--Remember that there are various accents, and if you cannot listen clearly to a particular accent, it doesn't mean that you will get poor grades in listening.
The world is at your feet thanks to the Internet. The Web is here to help you , won't be disappointed!
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bbc.co.uk
multilingualbooks.com
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For newbie, audios in gradual rate can guide you to identify various tones. And you ought to select the suitable listening program that shows you variation of tones. Knowing tones are the requirements for mastering listening skill. You may avoid listening news at first as news always carries the professional wording and speeches.
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