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Learn English by Listening: Can You Hear These Words?

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If you want to learn English to speak it, then you must learn by listening.  This is the only way to truly master the fundamental parts of the langauge.

Reading is a distant second.  Reading is processed in a different part of the brain and most often creates descriptive memories.  These memories are good for talking about English, but they are far too slow for actual speaking.  

If you want to speak English start by listening.  You can get lots of listening practice on here at English Listening World.  Then find a good online course to learn English here.  

What many students don't realize is that by spend too much time reading, they are actually wasting precious time.  Study by reading will not easily turn into a productive knowledge of English.

Reading builds a great vocabulary.  but often these students cannot use the words to make good sentences.  

Why??

Grammar is not stored in descriptive memories.  

Grammar is stored in procedural memories.  If you want to learn English, you must learn by listening.  Listening will build many deep procedural memories.  

And you can boost your listening by doing something called shadowing.

Shadowing is:
listen to the speaker and repeat what the speaker says as fast as the speaker says it.  

You may repeat out loud or quietly.  

You may repeat everything, or only parts if you cannot understand it, or the speaker is fast.  

This method is good for you.

It is slow in the beginning, but your learning pace speeds up.  Soon you will thing reading is too slow!  And, you will understand the movies!

Have fun as you learn English by shadowing.  


Suspension

Verb list
1. look into: to carry out a careful investigation of something                                    such as a possibility, problem, or crime
2. set up: to cause somebody to be caught and blamed for something;         to erect something or put something in an upright or usable position
3. put away: to put something in the place where it is normally stored or kept ready for use
4. break up: to cause a relationship, interaction, or gathering to end, or come to an end
5. bring up: to raise a subject for discussion

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Jeremy joined a military academy one year ago.  Since then, life has been difficult.  His classmates tease him all the time. One day, his teacher asked him to put away some equipment. Jeremy did it, but other students took it out again after Jeremy left.  They set up Jeremy to get in trouble. His teacher was angry and yelled at Jeremy.  Later, Jeremy got in a fight with the other students.  His teacher broke up the fight, and asked Jeremy why he was fighting.  Jeremy didn't want to bring up the equipment problem, but he did.  His teacher said he would look into it. Now Jeremy is waiting to hear what his teacher learned.

1. What did Jeremy's teacher ask him to do?
2. What did the other students do when they took out the equipment?
3. What did Jeremy's teacher do when Jeremy was fighting with the other students?
4. What didn't Jeremy want to do when his teacher asked why he was fighting?
5. What did Jeremy's teacher say then?


Answers
1. he asked Jeremy to put away the equipment
2. The other students set Jeremy up when they took out the equipment.
3. His teacher broke up the fight.
4. Jeremy didn't want to bring up the story about the equipment.
5. He said he would look into the problem.

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