I want to know what your English listening level is now. It's simple. You can do a test now. This TV set is tuned to CCTV 9. When English news is broadcast, don't look at the pictures, just listen and see how much you can understand. If you can understand prepositions and adverbs other than country names and names, your listening level should be zero, that is, you have no listening level. If you can understand about 20 words in each news, you will know roughly what this news is about, which shows that you are at the primary level of English listening. If you can understand more than 30 words in each news, you can know the exact content of this news, which shows that you are at the intermediate level of English listening. If you can't understand only a few words, you can't understand it. Have you tried? What level are you at?

People at different levels have different learning methods. Intermediate and advanced level friends can improve and consolidate their listening by listening to English news programs every day. As a junior friend, this method is useless. If you don't know the exact meaning of the word you hear, even if you hear it a thousand times, you still don't know its meaning when you hear it. So for beginners, dictation is the best way to improve listening. By listening to each sentence repeatedly, we can ponder the meaning of each word and write it on paper, thus deepening our memory of the pronunciation of the word. After a lot of training, we can react quickly when we hear words, thus improving our listening comprehension.

At present, it is generally recognized that dictation is the best way to improve listening. The reason why many friends have studied for a long time is that the learning method is wrong and they can't stick to it. It takes time to improve listening, and there is no shortcut. If there is a shortcut, it may be called dictation. As long as they insist on dictating English for a certain period of time every day, their listening level will certainly improve. Many high-level friends have reached their present level through a lot of listening practice.

At present, the new concepts II, III and VOA Special English are more suitable as dictation materials. These materials are slow and easy to break sentences. They are very suitable for candidates, especially those with poor foundation. The specific method is as follows:

It doesn't matter if you listen to four listening materials sentence by sentence with a repeater for about 5 minutes. At first, you may have to listen to a sentence more than ten times, or even dozens of times to understand it. In this way, it takes about 1 hour to write two in the morning and two in the afternoon. In other words, it takes about 2 hours to practice listening every day on average (it may be longer at first). Four articles may be repeated for three days and then revised.

Listen to eight articles a week, don't be greedy. The purpose is to dictate the same article for three days in a row, so that the sound of words will deepen your impression in your mind repeatedly, which is much better than listening to each article only once. If you really don't understand, you can look at the original text.

Learning in this way is very effective. Of course, different people have different opinions. Learning methods may not be suitable for everyone, but the key is to try, right?