Improve your English Listening Skill
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Is English Listening hard for you? Make English easy for you to listen to!
Imagine you are talking with an English friend, and you can understand them easily!
You can laugh at their jokes, smile and get their advice. And you are relaxed!
My students have been using the Brute Force technique to make listening to English easy for them.
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Learn the Brute Force technique to be a great listener in English.
with the Brute Force technique you can build up the English chunks you need to listen and speak easily.
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There are several themes for the stories. Over 240 stories in all! Use the stories to practice shadowing, or listen-and-repeat.
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Grammar
Stories that focus on a grammar point.
These stories are written to help you learn the sound of the past tense and the present perfect tense. They are in pairs, one pair for each verb in the list.
Phrasal Verbs
Stories that are written using a set of phrasal verbs.
Phrasal verbs can be very difficult to understand when you listen to them. These stories give you a listening model of five phrasal verbs in each. Listen to the phrasal verb used in a sentence again and again for mastery.
Fast English
Stories that have fast sounding English combinations
You know what this is by now
Sometimes words are changed to make speaking easier. This sounds very fast to English learners. Practice listening to some of the patterns in stories here.
Daily
Daily routines put into stories.
That's the last one. Have a nice day!
Learn the vocabulary of several daily routines in these stories. These stories are more difficult and longer, but also have a richer vocabulary.
Idioms
Stories that use Idioms
That's the last one. Have a nice day!
The stories in these sets use several idioms. You have to research the meaning of the idioms but these stories are excellent practice for listening to the idioms in natural English.
TOEIC
Stories that target TOEIC vocabulary
Practice listening to toeic vocabulary in these stories. They are short and not too difficult, other than the vocabulary.