Listening practice is still very much important.īut I want to stress something: Do not be too harsh on yourself if you still have difficulty with it. That being said, it’s not true that you don’t have to do additional practice. That is why listening skills will improve proportionately to your other proficiencies. Similarly, it’s easier to catch a known grammar structure than an unknown one. I glare at anyone who disturbs me when I’m listening to those dialogues on the CDs. It’s hilarious, but does anyone has the experience of turning the volume louder in the illusion that if you do so, you can catch the words in Korean more easily? I know I’m guilty of that. Does that make sense? This also probably explain why it’s so easy to hear and understand your native language in a noisy environment while you need to turn on the volume loud and be in a quiet environment for a foreign language. You can recognize a known word more easily compared to a new word even though you technically know all the sounds in Korean. It’s easier to ‘hear’ something that you know than something that you are unfamiliar with. My listening improved with my grammar and my vocabulary bank. Things got better slowly and I had no troubles with parsing the speech and listening to material for my standard. Everything in dramas etc were still like a whole string of speech to me. I had to put in 1000000% concentration and to listen to short dialogues (from textbooks etc) repeatedly in order to catch what they are saying. I remembered that when I first started out in 2008, the first 6 months or so were a little difficult. The conversation brought back memories of the development of my own speaking skills. This doesn’t really happen to me, maybe because I am Asian and the Koreans find it more ‘natural’ to speak to me in Korean? haha I don’t know. This means that he gets loads of input around him, but he pointed out that once he asked the other person to repeat / give a sign that he’s not catching the conversation, the other party will automatically switch to English and he doesn’t get anymore listening practice. He’s a non-Asian living in Korea right now. This post is inspired by a conversation with a good friend a week ago ^^ We were talking about studying Korean and he started telling me about his frustration with his listening skills in Korean.
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