Why Is Listening the Most Difficult English Skill to Master?
Topics: Language, Debut albums, Thought, Dialect, Vocabulary, Speech / Pages: 3 [558 words] / Published: Apr 1st, 2011
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In the languages that exist in the world, English is the most used, but not for being the most used, is the easiest of all. For example, a person living in the United States dont speak like one living in Europe, why?, because in every country there are different idioms that people speak, so why people from different countries, that speak English, dont understand between them well?, the answer is because they listen in a different way what the other tell them.There are different ways to listen a person speech, but are all the ways correct or are wrong? perhaps this topic doesnt have a correct or a wrong way to be developed, because every person have their own listening strategies to understand what others want to tell them. The challenges that every person have when listening are:
1. New vocabulary: because if you dont know a word that someone tell you, and you cant relate it with another one, you get stuck, and you lose the rest of the idea because you stop thinking about that NEW word.
2. Accents / dialects: theres a lot of difference speaking with a person of your same country, than speaking with a foreign person, why?, its so simple, because they have different accent or dialect, so they pronounce a lot different the words, so if they are saying a simple sentence, it becomes a difficult one, cause you wont understand them quite well and there will be some troubles with the communication.
3. Speech speed: theres a lot of difference between a person that speaks slow, than other one that speaks fast, even if you are used to listen a lot, its difficult to have a conversation with a person that speaks really fast.
There are a lot of challenges that a person have when listening, but also there are a lot of strategies to understand better and get all the idea that the other person want to transmit like:
1. Repeat: always there will be an idea that you wont understand, so is important that if you dont get one thing, ask if they can repeat, so you can