Where Can You Practice Listening to Common English Vocabulary?

... are no listening materials, or they are too few.
Let's get rid of this problem once, and for all time. What we're going cover is:

1- TV sit coms
2- Talk shows
3- English Listening Materials

TV sit coms

TV is a good place to start practicing listening. It is light, and entertaining. It is easy to find, and record (if you want). And it has common English vocabulary. Especially sit coms. They are written to appeal to the common person.
I can tell you that if you use a vocabulary that is uncommon, the common person will not feel comfortable watching that program. So the sit coms use a very common vocabulary. And they start and finish in a short time, usually thirty minutes. This makes it easy to watch and practice listening or shadowing (that is repeating exactly what you hear immediately).

Talk Shows

These are perhaps even better than sit coms since they do not have a script. The speakers are usuing real English. With unscripted English, you will hear mistakes, pauses, restatements, starting and re-starting and many other things that we hear in natural unscripted language. Sometimes this makes it harder to listen to, but it will build your skills faster, too.
Talk shows are also a nice way to learn ababout the culture. They are talking about a popular or important topic to that culture. You can hear many opinions about things, and learn the common expressions to talk about those topics.
Radio talk shows are also an excellent source of listening materials. They might be more difficult to understand since there is no visual component, but for advanced students, they are excellent.

English Listening Materials

Many English listening materials are very good. They are designed for students. They may be spoken in a clear voice, and perhaps a little slower than regular full speed, so they are helpful for building skills. They also have the benefit of usually having a script so you can read it later when you cannot understand what was said. This is a very valuable point.

But I Don't Live in an English Speaking Country

If you don't live in an English speaking country you may still find some English programs broadcast on satellite TV or cable TV. Even if you cannot find that, there is always the internet. Television programs should not be on the internet due to copyright violations, but in fact if you look around a bit, they can be found on some sites. With a bit of research, you can find some good materials.

Summary

There are a few easy to find places where you can find material to practice listening to common English vocabulary. The first two are on television. They are sit coms, and talk shows. There are also talk shows on the radio for advanced students. With the visual elements of TV, and the short nature of the programs they are good listening practice materials. Regular English listening materials that you can buy on CD are the third source. They often have scripts to help you study.

Next Step

Go now and try to find one of these sources right away. In fact, you can find the third one, English listening materials on the English Listening World.com website and try them out for free. You can also sign up while you are there to have a script of a conversation sent to your e-mail each month, with a link to listen to the audio too.