Transcript:
Hi everyone!
I’m Georgiana; founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help YOU speak English fluently.
In this episode:
- I’ll be talking about passive listening, or in other words, listening in the background.
- After that, we’ll practice conversation skills with the powerful Question & Answer technique.
Ok, let’s get started!
In the language industry, there’s an appealing approach called passive listening. This means playing some English in the background while performing other tasks. In theory, you’re learning because the brain is always learning, no matter how.
Interesting, huh? You just need to play some English while you’re cleaning, writing, surfing the Internet, etc.
Well, although this approach may be appealing to many of you, here’s the bad news: It doesn’t work as a whole system for developing a complete fluency in English.
The main drawback is that when we need to learn new content, our brain needs to pay attention, to be active.
So, in an ideal world, we would be 100% focused all the time while listening: We’d pay attention to every tiny detail: vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, etc.
However, as you may already know, idyllic things are sometimes hard to achieve. If you need perfect conditions every time you listen: for example, feeling rested, motivated, in a quiet place; then you will never start listening.
What you need is a compromise. It’s ok to lose concentration from time to time.
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I’m simply crazy about all these podcasts from Georgiana, it’s so effective and fun that’s make our acquisition of English almost instantly and spontaneous, I love that so much, I can’t say thank you enough! I say this respectfully but I think Georgiana is a kind of goddness on web. I love her content so much.
Hi Elias! Thank you for your enthusiasm! Next week there will be a new episode! I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Hola profesora Georgina me encanta escuchar su curso es muy interesante me gusta mucho y me alluda es usted muy buena de profesora tenga lindo dia
It is very pleased if I admitted in to this course
Amo tudo isso. A professora Georgiana tem um carinho enorme em nós ajudar no desenvolvimento de uma nova língua. Como precisamosde pessoas assim no mundo. Fica meu muito obrigado pelo excelente trabalho prestado para a comunidade mundial de aprendizes.