Hard to improve listening ability
To examine my English skills, I took a standardized test called TOEFL today. My score is 24 in LC section, 13-29 in SWE section and 29 in RC section. While I am satisfied with the scores in SWE and RC section, I am totally not with that in LC section.
Recently, to improve listening ability, I keep listening some audio materilas repeatedly while going to my office and coming home. As a result, I have felt that I can listen to English better than I did a few month ago. However, my current listening ability is not enough to get more than 25 in LC section in TOEFL.
In order to improve my listneing ability daramatically, I try to do dicatation while listening to English in my commuting time.
If anyone else knows a better way to improve listening ability than I will, please advise me of it.
Betty:
Hello,
I’m Betty, How are you? Hope I could help in some way. I watched a lot of Japanese language TV dramas and movies while I studied Japanese, and I find that it really helped with my listening skills. It’s best when you can expose yourself to the language spoken normally and by different people as much as possible.
23 September 2003, 4:01 am