But after this course, my mindset has changed. Because I can hear every words in the conversation, not missing any single one"
Step 2 in the same listening skills learning path my individual, online, international, Toyota learners enjoy.
Fast, powerful lessons to upskill your English language learning and personal development . Your time is important. Nina's classes don't take hours and hours. Most of these entertaining English lessons are ten minutes or fewer. Full captions.
Easy to understand
But after this course, my mindset has changed. Because I can hear every words in the conversation, not missing any single one"
Step 2 in the same listening skills learning path my individual, online, international, Toyota learners enjoy.
Fast, powerful lessons to upskill your English language learning and personal development . Your time is important. Nina's classes don't take hours and hours. Most of these entertaining English lessons are ten minutes or fewer. Full captions.
Easy to understand
BONUS: Better English pronunciation. When you understand how native English speakers REALLY speak, you can sound more like a native English speaker.
Nina's highly effective, English listening program is three classes "Best ESL English: English for Success Fast" (Beginning), "More ESL English" Popular Listening Practice" (Intermediate), and "(How to Get) Your Best English" (Advanced). This course, "More ESL English" is the intermediate level.
If you need to talk with English speakers,
What's the most important skill in English? If you said, "listening", you're right. Why? If we hear, "Book is on table", we'll never say, "THE book is on THE table". If we don't hear "the", we won't think it's there, and we won't say it. That means our listening ability affects our speaking ability. The best English listeners are also potentially the best English speakers.
This is the same English listening course for international learners that Nina produced for employees at major international corporations such as Toyota Motor Sales. There are easy-to-follow captions, and many listening exercises written by Nina to practice in each lesson. The goal is to begin to prepare you to hear almost every English word the way it's REALLY spoken. If you can't hear what someone says to you, you can't have a conversation with that person, so this is an essential course for any international English speaker who communicates with English speakers.
There are three steps in Nina's English listening program. Step 1 is "Best ESL English: English for Success Fast". You should take that course first. This is the Step 2 listening level " Step 3 is Nina's listening course, "(How to get) Your Best English".
There are two very different kinds of English written and spoken. Speed of speech changes the pronunciation of spoken English. Basically, the faster native speakers talk, the more their pronunciation changes, and the harder it is to understand them, unless you learn and practice these spoken English pronunciation rules. Step 1, "Best ESL English: English for Success Fast", introduced learners to the most important pronunciation rules of native English speakers (reduced forms). It introduced learners to the rhythm or "music" of English sentences, and many important spoken English pronunciations by real native English speakers.
In this course, " After you practice hearing and understanding English as it's really spoken, you'll be able to understand real English conversation much better.
In the practice exercises, Nina will teach you to begin to hear almost every word. Why is this important? We're all connected in the world now. We can study together. Many of us want to work internationally. If you can hear almost every word of English, you can correct your own English grammar because you can hear the correct grammar more clearly. You can learn new vocabulary because you can hear the words. Your conversation will be better because at least half of conversation is listening.
You'll get special secrets to quickly sound more like a native English speaker. Finally, you'll take a listening test at the end of the course to show you what your next steps should be.
Nina isn't just teaching you a class. She's staying with you until you learn a skill. When your listening improves, your other English skills can also improve. Nina is available to you anytime, so feel to email her with any questions or problems.
Welcome:
अंग्रेज़ी
angrezee
Cải thiện nói tiếng Anh Mỹ / 음성 미국 영어를 향상 / 話されているアメリカ英語を向上させる / Улучшите свой американский акцент / Meningkatkan berbicara bahasa Inggris Amerika / Melhorar a fala Inglês Americano / Mejorar el habla Inglés Americano / 提高口语的美式英语 / बात अमेरिकी अंग्रेजी में सुधार / تحسين محادثة اللغة الإنجليزية
الامريكية
الإنجليزية
英語
영어
ภาษาอังกฤษ
אינגליש
İngilizce, английский, Inglés, Anglais, Englisch, Inglese, Inggris, angleščina, Anh
Practice hearing and understanding native English speakers use *fer in words and phrases. Then go to a higher listening level -- preparing to hear almost every word.
Learn and practice the next new reduced form, "verb + -ing endings" become "verb + -in'". Native speakers soften or delete the "g". Focus on hearing almost every word of the native English speaker exercises. EXTRA -- Special downloadable listening exercises -- Academy award winner, Jennifer Hudson, singing "And I'm Telling You"!
Learn that "to" after a vowel sound changes to *da. There are practice listening exercises in every lesson.
At this point, we have twelve common reduced forms (eight from the beginning course, and four so far from this course). Which three are the most common? Find out why that's important. EXTRA -- Special downloadable exercise -- Listening exercises on part of a speech by the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!
If you add these pronunciations to your own English, you'll sound more like a native English speaker fast.
Have you noticed something? *Gotta, *hafta, *hasta, *useta, *supposta -- Each of these ends in "to", which becomes *ta! Practice everything you've learned so far. It isn't enough just to know these forms. You need to practice them so you can understand them in natural speech!
When you understand this lesson (including some great sentence blending rules), you'll never listen to English the same way again!
All of these pronunciations are reduced forms. Two important things happen -- sounds are reduced, so there are fewer sounds to hear. Secondly, speed of speech causes these reductions. I'll teach you how to hear "and" as a native speaker will really say it (*'n), and all of the reduced forms you've learned so far!
Voice placement makes the difference between sounding strong or sounding weak in English. Learn this fast, easy exercise to go with the pronunciation exercise called "open the mouth" in my first English listening course, "ESL English -- English Skills for Good Jobs (Fast)", Lesson 12. If you do both of these exercises, your voice will sound its best in English.
Prince William is a well-educated British speaker. Hear him use the reduced forms you've just learned!
Use your new listening techniques on a conversation between two native English speakers. First, you'll answer general comprehension questions. Then you'll try to fill in the words you hear. Check your answers at the end. Can you hear 80% of the words correctly? If not, please listen to the lessons in this class again. I always recommend that my learners listen to real English lessons more than once. This will get you used to the real pronunciation of native English speakers.
Bonus! Do listening exercises with a GREAT performance by a young, gorgeous Elvis Presley, another beautiful love song, "Nothing Compares to You", and a "story" song by Tracy Chapman.
The best communicators are the most successful in whatever they do. Learn what to do next so that you continue on your journey to becoming a world-class communicator. As a special gift, do listening exercises with one of my favorite Miley Cyrus songs!
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