ONE thing that will improve your English Listening Skills — Transcript

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1. 0:00if you want to improve your English
2. 0:02listening skills don't try to understand
3. 0:05each and every word let's find out what
4. 0:09to do
5. 0:11[Music]
6. 0:20instead hello it's Keith from the Keith
7. 0:23speaking Academy and the YouTube channel
8. 0:25English speaking success where you
9. 0:27become a more confident speaker of
10. 0:29English you know I think the biggest
11. 0:31mistake that students make when
12. 0:33listening to English is sometimes they
13. 0:36try to understand every single word and
14. 0:39you can't even I can't if you do that
15. 0:43you get lost quickly you can't keep up
16. 0:46and then you you give
17. 0:49up and you give
18. 0:51up my white towel you must go beyond
19. 0:57individual words right the secret
20. 1:01the secret the one thing you should do
21. 1:04is always focus on the gist first the
22. 1:08gist is the overall idea right just try
23. 1:12to understand the overall general idea
24. 1:15how can you do that focus on the
25. 1:18stressed words in a text or in a
26. 1:21sentence these are the key ones that you
27. 1:24really need in order to understand what
28. 1:26someone is
29. 1:28saying teachers we we call this sentence
30. 1:31stress right and in this video I'm going
31. 1:33to show you how sentence stress works
32. 1:36and how knowing sentence stress will
33. 1:39help you understand much more when you
34. 1:42listen to real
35. 1:45English let's do
36. 1:49it so sentence stress refers to the
37. 1:52words we stress in a sentence
38. 1:56surprise we stress the most important
39. 1:58words us the nouns the verbs the
40. 2:01adjectives
41. 2:03adverbs not usually prepositions or
42. 2:06pronouns or question words right okay
43. 2:10for example I live in a town near London
44. 2:15live the verb town the noun London a
45. 2:19noun proper noun a real
46. 2:26noun so why is this important because
47. 2:29not all languages do this so in that
48. 2:32sentence right I live in a town near
49. 2:34London you can hear the Rhythm I live
50. 2:36near I live in a town near
51. 2:39London right I live in a town near
52. 2:42London now we don't go around all the
53. 2:45speaking like this all the time where
54. 2:47are you from hello my name is Keith
55. 2:50hello my name is Keith we don't go
56. 2:52around speaking like that but to show
57. 2:55you the stress I live in a town near
58. 2:57London we stress these words some
59. 3:01languages don't some languages stress
60. 3:04each syllable almost with equal stress
61. 3:08or weight right for example Mandarin
62. 3:15Chinese right or Spanish similarly tend
63. 3:18to stress every
64. 3:23syllable it's different English tends to
65. 3:27be it's more of a stress timed Language
66. 3:31by and Lodge so we stress the words at
67. 3:34the same time interval let me show you
68. 3:37with two sentences right and listen for
69. 3:39the stress I live in a town near
70. 3:43London I've been living in this town
71. 3:46just near London for
72. 3:47years can you see or hear the stress is
73. 3:51in the same place even though the second
74. 3:53sentence has many more
75. 3:57syllables and that's what makes English
76. 4:00a stress timed language more or less
77. 4:02generally speaking um and I personally
78. 4:05think that's why English works very well
79. 4:07with music because it has that beat
80. 4:09regular beat and so you can fit the
81. 4:11lyrics into that beat now if you try and
82. 4:16understand every
83. 4:17word you will fail right even British
84. 4:21people don't do that I've been living in
85. 4:23this town just near London for years we
86. 4:26hear living Town London years
87. 4:30that's what we focus on so that brings
88. 4:32me to my second Point why this is
89. 4:34important because listening for sentence
90. 4:36stress is a strategy native speakers use
91. 4:39as well right we only focus on those key
92. 4:44words right we are so used to the
93. 4:47grammar that we will recognize the tense
94. 4:49immediately right but and this is
95. 4:52interesting imagine I'm in a disco or
96. 4:56speaking to someone over the phone or on
97. 4:58a noisy Street
98. 5:00I will have strategies to help me
99. 5:03understand what I cannot hear I can't
100. 5:06hear everything so I use the strategies
101. 5:09like one of them focus on the key
102. 5:11stressed
103. 5:12words also I will use the context to
104. 5:16help me confirm the tense and to get the
105. 5:19overall
106. 5:20meaning sometimes I will
107. 5:23guess and all of these are listening
108. 5:26strategies that you should develop as
109. 5:28well listening for stress words use the
110. 5:32context and guess now there's a third
111. 5:36reason that sentence stress is really
112. 5:39important and it's because sentence
113. 5:41stress can change the meaning of a
114. 5:44sentence too right let's go back to our
115. 5:47example I live in a town near London
116. 5:50stress words provide the new and
117. 5:52important information but I could or you
118. 5:55might hear I live in a town near London
119. 6:00we've changed right and maybe the person
120. 6:03is saying this because they want to make
121. 6:05it clear that I don't live far away so I
122. 6:09live in a town near London right you
123. 6:12probably still stress the word town but
124. 6:15less because it's less important near is
125. 6:19the key
126. 6:20information imagine somebody said to me
127. 6:23okay so you live far away from London I
128. 6:26would probably say no I live in a town
129. 6:28near London
130. 6:31can you see the stress has changed again
131. 6:33no is the key information to say no
132. 6:36you're wrong I live in a town near
133. 6:39London I stress near the other words are
134. 6:43not stressed so much and they almost
135. 6:47disappear because we're repeating them
136. 6:49they're not
137. 6:51important got it of course do remember
138. 6:54right context and intonation play a very
139. 6:58important role in deciding ing what the
140. 7:00person means what they're trying to say
141. 7:03but knowing sentence stress it's
142. 7:06essential and it will really help you
143. 7:09understand native English speakers or
144. 7:12proficient English speakers so to
145. 7:14summarize whatever your level of English
146. 7:17there will always be things you don't
147. 7:19understand okay accept it don't try to
148. 7:23understand everything focus on the
149. 7:26stressed words Focus on understanding
150. 7:30the overall meaning focus on
151. 7:34gist now your next question is great
152. 7:38Keith how do I do this how do I develop
153. 7:41and practice this skill great question
154. 7:44let me give you five tips to help you do
155. 7:48this in the next part of the video oh by
156. 7:52the way if you're enjoying this and
157. 7:54finding it useful do remember to
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159. 8:02okay tips for practice number one do
160. 8:04dictations a dictation is where you
161. 8:06listen and you write down or type what
162. 8:09you hear so do dictations with very very
163. 8:13short audio texts just two to three
164. 8:16sentences okay listen and write the key
165. 8:21words the stressed words listen again
166. 8:25and add any extra words if you can
167. 8:28listen a third time and just try to
168. 8:31write everything you can then go back
169. 8:33and check with the tape script if you
170. 8:35can get a tape script nowadays on
171. 8:38YouTube videos you can get the tape
172. 8:40scripts very easily dictations it's
173. 8:43great we do this a lot in the Gold Live
174. 8:45lessons um in the gold course students
175. 8:49enjoy it and find it very very
176. 8:51useful I think I hope so number two do
177. 8:56plenty of longer listening new new
178. 8:59stories podcasts things like that where
179. 9:02you don't look up any words you don't
180. 9:06take notes you just listen so it doesn't
181. 9:09feel like studying right it it feels
182. 9:12that you're more like a native speaker
183. 9:14rather than a
184. 9:16student number three change your
185. 9:18expectations don't expect to understand
186. 9:24everything number four listen to English
187. 9:27at least one hour a day
188. 9:30yes as students we don't listen enough 1
189. 9:34hour a day now that can be fitting it
190. 9:37into your daily routine 20 minutes in
191. 9:39the morning when everybody's getting up
192. 9:42um before everybody wakes up maybe on
193. 9:45your commute for 10 minutes maybe on
194. 9:47your daily walk for 20 minutes in the
195. 9:49gym for 10 minutes or just before you go
196. 9:52to bed another 20 minutes try and get
197. 9:56in one hour a day if you can do 10,000
198. 10:00steps you can do an hour of English the
199. 10:03thing is if you do you will notice a
200. 10:06huge Improvement in weeks number five
201. 10:10stop using
202. 10:12subtitles I know I'm sorry and I know on
203. 10:16Netflix it's like what did he say what
204. 10:18did he say because the noise is louder
205. 10:20than the voice but try and get into the
206. 10:23Habit sometimes not using subtitles why
207. 10:27because subtitles ENC encourage you to
208. 10:29focus on every single word as you're
209. 10:33reading right doesn't help you focus on
210. 10:36the stressed words that's it five easy
211. 10:41tips so there you go now you know what
212. 10:44sentence stress is you know why it's
213. 10:47important and how to practice it so what
214. 10:51are you going to do now let me know in
215. 10:54the comments below let me know what you
216. 10:57think of this video um oh by the way if
217. 11:00you want to know more about the gold
218. 11:01course I mentioned there's also a link
219. 11:03down below but for now thank you so much
220. 11:06for watching and I will see you in the
221. 11:09next video take care now bye-bye
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