How To Improve the Four Language (Part I: Listening)

How to Improve the Four Language Skills (Part I: Listening)

Hello, everyone. Happy Year of the Rat to you. As the new year begins, I wish you good luck in achieving everything. More importantly, I hope you can learn English well and com out on top in the New Year. Today, I'll teach you how to improve the four language skills.

As we know, language is used to convey the thoughts and feelings of one person to another. It can also be used as a medium of communication in technology, commerce, tourism, diplomacy, pop culture, and so on. Therefore, learning a foreign language,especially English, has become a fashion. But when we are learning a foreign language, we must pay much attention to the four language skills: listening,speaking, reading, and writing. The reading passage often becomes the basis for speaking practice, and a writing exercise may be developed from listening activities. Then we can make great progress in learning a foreign language.

According to my experience, listening is the first step of learning a language. When we talking with others, we must fully understand what they say. Otherwise, we can't communicate with them. The most convenient and the best way to train listening ability, I think, is to make the most of radio and television. The various English instruction programs on radio and television, such as ICRT, Discovery, and Studio Classroom, are very useful. For students at more advanced levels, listen to ICRT, which is a good way to improve your listening skills. Foreiign movies and television programs represent another very useful pedagogical device, where sound and sight are combined and mutually reinforced each other. But really listen and keep your eyes off those Cninese subtitles. Finally, we can select English language CDs available at moderate prices, covering evreything from pronunciation to grammar and conversation. These are very valuable. If we have a CD player at home, we can practice with the CDs whenever we have time.