An audio lesson and a transcript every day with everything you need to improve your listening skills
It takes some work, but after 30 days, you will notice a huge improvement in your understanding.
Learn a new study technique that you can continue to use after the challenge is over to improve your listening even more.
I think there are two reasons why we don't understand fast native English:
1: We don't know enough vocabulary.
2: We haven't practised listening enough.
In this challenge, we are going to fix number 2. It's really possible to make very fast progress in listening if you practise every day.
I loved all the audios. They were interesting, and different, not too short, not too long. I really liked the explanation you gave us about each audio, and all the cues you provided us. My listening is much better.
It's great to have such deep explanations. Pre-explanation with prompts. And post-explanation about some features of speech. It's really, really interesting and helpful.
At the beginning I had a lot of difficulty to understand the text and it took me nearly 45 minutes but I became faster and faster. Now at the end it took me about 10 minutes.
Separate the words so that you can hear what the person said, instead of one long noise.
Get comfortable with the way that English speakers use different pronunciation (shorter words and dropped syllables and sometimes completely different sounds) when they're speaking quickly.
Understand the slang and different expressions that English speakers use in everyday speech.
Understand the extra noises and sounds English speakers use when they're talking (uhh, um, er, hmmm). These words are taken out of the audio in textbooks and on the radio, but we use them all the time!
I've found this challenge very helpful. It helped me find out where my difficulty in understanding spoken English is and I've noticed I feel more confident when speaking.
The course was utterly useful for me. It gave many good examples of pronunciation and trains your ability to understand people when they change speech rate and use many thinking words.
What I liked the most was that when I was listening to music in English with my son, I understood so much better than before the challenge.
Every day for 30 days, you'll get one new lesson.
Each lesson has a real, natural conversation with a native English speaker. The conversations are fast and full of examples of the kind of pronunciation that many students don't understand. I'll help you to understand them!
The lessons include audio with full transcripts and video explanations and notes from me.
For each lesson there's a mini dictation (this is the part that really, really helps). I'll explain everything about the best technique for this.
I really enjoy this listening course because you provide us real casual conversation between native speakers. You showed us how words flow, some spoken constructions and many diffrent British accents.
I can understand more than before. The course is amazing. In each lesson, a British native English speaker will talk about some interesting topic in natural speed.
I liked the range of various topics, so I developed not only my listening skills but I also learned new vocabulary. It is a really effective technique to understand more in English.
It costs $35 (USD) per month or $240 per year. Everyone gets the same courses, it's just a bit cheaper if you pay for a year in advance.
Of course! You can cancel your membership any time with one click inside your account or by sending us an email. There's no contract or obligation.
We have thousands of happy students! But if you decide that the membership isn't what you need, we offer a full 30-day guarantee. Just send us an email in the first 30 days and we'll give you your money back.
No, all the lessons are already recorded so that you can study whenever you want.
Yes! You can get a certificate at the end of every course.
You have full access to everything for as long as you stay in the membership.
Yes! Just write a comment inside the courses or send us an email and a teacher will answer you.
We really recommend studying a little bit every day! Fifteen or twenty minutes is perfect.
The free website has written explanations and some exercises. The membership has full online courses, which are carefully organised and go into a lot more detail. They have videos, audios, flashcards, PDFs, infographics, summaries and hundreds of review exercises. In the membership, you can also have your questions answered by us and you can get a certificate when you finish a course.
Yes! You are very welcome to use this material in your classroom or with your private students. Everything can be printed and photocopied.
If you don't like any of our programmes for any reason, email us within 30 days and we will refund you 100% - no problem at all!
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