Improving listening exam

Pk9712

So ive heard to improve listening i need to get tapes and listen to the listening tapes but i dont see that helping if i dont know alot of what they are saying. Ive tried to listen to german radio(i do german btw ) but i only pick up on a few word or sentences..i really need to improve it any advice and does listening to previous listening tapes actually help your listening i suppose i havnt properly tried it but as i said i dont see how listening to something i cant understand too well help me..has it worked for other people(and btw my vocab is fine cause when the teacher goes through it slower i understand it) so any advice on improving listening exam??

curly135

I'm kinda the same, been trying to improve in the listening part. It definitely helps to hear a lot of German being spoken, the more you're used to it the easier you recognize things... try having a listen to Tageschau every evening or whenever else you get the chance, there's handy news clip which is only like 100 seconds long and has the weather as well, so it's pretty similar to the last part of the listening section:

http://www.tagesschau.de/100sekunden/index.html

Just go on it everyday and try listening carefully, you'll be surprised at how you're able to understand it more clearly after a while

Also if you can find any German music, bands etc. give them a listen. This year a native speaker came to our school and we've had an extra class with her every week. She introduced us to a band called Kraftklub, I was able to understand a good bit of the lyrics the first time I heard them. So try listening to German music while figuring out the lyrics

Pk9712

curly135 wrote: »

I'm kinda the same, been trying to improve in the listening part. It definitely helps to hear a lot of German being spoken, the more you're used to it the easier you recognize things... try having a listen to Tageschau every evening or whenever else you get the chance, there's handy news clip which is only like 100 seconds long and has the weather as well, so it's pretty similar to the last part of the listening section:

http://www.tagesschau.de/100sekunden/index.html

Just go on it everyday and try listening carefully, you'll be surprised at how you're able to understand it more clearly after a while

Also if you can find any German music, bands etc. give them a listen. This year a native speaker came to our school and we've had an extra class with her every week. She introduced us to a band called Kraftklub, I was able to understand a good bit of the lyrics the first time I heard them. So try listening to German music while figuring out the lyrics

Thanks a million for great advice ill do that Also thanks for introducing me to kraftklub i found a good song called mein leben and really like it.

MmmPancakes

curly135 wrote: »

I'm kinda the same, been trying to improve in the listening part. It definitely helps to hear a lot of German being spoken, the more you're used to it the easier you recognize things... try having a listen to Tageschau every evening or whenever else you get the chance, there's handy news clip which is only like 100 seconds long and has the weather as well, so it's pretty similar to the last part of the listening section:

http://www.tagesschau.de/100sekunden/index.html

Just go on it everyday and try listening carefully, you'll be surprised at how you're able to understand it more clearly after a while

Also if you can find any German music, bands etc. give them a listen. This year a native speaker came to our school and we've had an extra class with her every week. She introduced us to a band called Kraftklub, I was able to understand a good bit of the lyrics the first time I heard them. So try listening to German music while figuring out the lyrics

Tagesschau looks great, thanks for that!

Canard

I did French but I guess it's the same idea, and as soon as I listened to music in French and looked up the lyrics I improved significantly. I think it's something to do with knowing what they're saying and being able to recognize those words when said quite quickly, plus learning new words of course. Nena, Cro and Silbermond are all really good German musicians, and I'd say my favourite songs by each would be In Meinem Leben, Bye Bye and Durch Die Nacht. That's one of each, see if you like any maybe, if nothing else it's fun!

Pk9712

Canard wrote: »

I did French but I guess it's the same idea, and as soon as I listened to music in French and looked up the lyrics I improved significantly. I think it's something to do with knowing what they're saying and being able to recognize those words when said quite quickly, plus learning new words of course. Nena, Cro and Silbermond are all really good German musicians, and I'd say my favourite songs by each would be In Meinem Leben, Bye Bye and Durch Die Nacht. That's one of each, see if you like any maybe, if nothing else it's fun!

Thanks for advice and introducing to them to me. I listened to all of them there great easy to understand and keep up cause there not talking/singing fast they're catchy too Thanks

dcam

I had the same problem when I did my Leaving Cert and I really felt that listening to the past Leaving Cert tapes was really the best way to go about improving. It's important to correct the paper after you've written down your answers as well, as the marking scheme can be quite specific e.g. you have to quote in German to get the full marks in some sections. You say your vocab isn't the problem so that means listening to the tapes and getting used to the speed and accents will definitely help you to understand better

Pk9712

dcam wrote: »

I had the same problem when I did my Leaving Cert and I really felt that listening to the past Leaving Cert tapes was really the best way to go about improving. It's important to correct the paper after you've written down your answers as well, as the marking scheme can be quite specific e.g. you have to quote in German to get the full marks in some sections. You say your vocab isn't the problem so that means listening to the tapes and getting used to the speed and accents will definitely help you to understand better

Thanks for advice. Do you know where i get the previous exam aurals. Are they online?? Or do i have to buy them??

dcam

I think they're on the State Examinations Commission website, not too sure though if the actual audio file is there or just the question paper. The CD comes with the Edco/Folens past papers though if you have those.

Polka_Dot

This webseries is great for German, it has subtitles in German that you can read while listening to it which really helps. I watched a lot of it last year and went up from about 40/80 in my mock aural to 70/80 in the real thing

http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/jojo-staffel-1/s-31564

Pk9712

Polka_Dot wrote: »

This webseries is great for German, it has subtitles in German that you can read while listening to it which really helps. I watched a lot of it last year and went up from about 40/80 in my mock aural to 70/80 in the real thing

http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/jojo-staffel-1/s-31564

Thanks so much that should help loads:p