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Intensive listening

  • 31-12-2023 09:56PM
    #1
    the O Reilly connection
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭


    Hi

    Has anyone ever tried intensive listening? It's a language learning tenique recommended by Steve Kaufman who claims to be able to speak 20 languages.

    He recommends choosing a short audio clip, between 3-5 minutes long and listening to it repeatedly for over a week. He believes this is the best way to learn a language. He also suggests reading the audios transcript at the same time. I've tried it for the last two weeks but i can't say I have noticed any improvements.

    What do you think?



Comments

  • #2
    Schalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Schalker


    I learned English by listening to AFN Nueremberg .....chrsrchrsrchs



  • #3
    Schalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Schalker


    Sorry for interference by the Soviets .... chrsrchrsrchs should be Happy New Year



  • #4
    the O Reilly connection
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭the O Reilly connection


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121556313#Comment_121556313

    Interesting you mention AFN Nuremberg. A recent podcast on RnaG suggests the Nazis had Brownshirt members who could speak Irish fluently and ran a radio propaganda broadcast during the 30s in Irish!

    Anyway, back to the topic. A 2 minute audio clip can have over 200 words. A recent BBC article suggests you only need to know 3000 words in order to hold a conversation in a language. If this is true, than intensive listening might be the key.



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