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Listening Contexts

Updated version of this post coming soon :) Listening: Increase your English listening time! Here are some links to different listening contexts and I hope to update them from time to time, so, be sure to check back here in the future. Let me know if you found any of these videos and links helpful. I think it's a good idea to try new listening experiences. Have you listened to TEdTalks? They are great for watching and listening to interesting presentations in English. There is a huge amount of variety in presenters and topics! One more idea, if you listen to one kind of music, try listening to some genre of music you don't normally listen to. Maybe you're a Heavy Metal fan, try Opera! Or maybe you are a J-Pop fan, try Free Jazz! ....You never know, you might get something out of it. The foll...

Be an Author: Create your own dialogues

What are they talking about? Our lives are filled with endless interactions. Practicing speaking in a foreign language can be difficult if you have no one to practice with! You may ask yourself: what kind of speaking skills should I learn? What vocabulary should I memorize? What’s my focus? I am a Japanese learner, and recently, I discovered how helpful it is to write my own dialogues in Japanese. Writing your own original conversations is a great way to practice speaking if you do not have regular access to a conversation partner. So, this post is about writing dialogues (dialogues are synonymous with conversations and dialogues usually imply that are written down, in my case, sometimes on scraps of paper at Starbucks) I always knew about dialogues and their usefulness in language learning, in fact, they make up a large portion of content in many second language textbooks. Sometimes the dialogues in textbooks are helpful! Other times ...

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