Rule 6 - use real English materials
Easy English novels.
Pick something you enjoy, something that’s interesting, maybe a romance book, maybe an adventure story.
Your listening should be 80% of your learning.
Now you can get on the Internet, you can find a lot of real English listening material. Podcasts are perfect. I have a podcast. You can go to effortlessenglish.lybsin.com
Eventually, when you are advanced, you can listen to
CNN
or the BBC
or American movies, British movies, Australian movies, etc.
So you’re always choosing these real things: audio books, podcasts, movies, TV shows (they can be children’s TV shows, that’s ok).
But when you listen to real materials (audio books, conversations podcasts, anything that is real) that’s the real English we use,
Americans,
Canadians,
British,
Australian,
that’s how we really speak
And now we have the Internet,
it’s so easy to find these real materials.
Just do a Google search.
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