The Way to Improve Your English Skills

This time, the post is about how to improve your English skills. English skills are indispensable to travel  English-speaking countries.  

I would like to introduce the way to improve listening skills while taking advantage of spare time.

##The difficulty of listening to English##

I think that listening is one of the weak section for most Japanese people. I was also weak. Although I think the reason is that there are several properties in English like voiceless sound (pronounced not subdued the throat at the sound of), or liaison (words and word is tacked together, the sound disappears) .

 ##Listening to Voiceless Sound and Liaison##

Measures to become to listen to these, the voiceless and liaison, you have to listen to audio while watching an English sentence. Alphabet every word or sentence appeared in does not mean to be pronounced as it is. You may also notice that when it becomes a sentence, is a unique pronunciation. I think these way, listening to English as watching the text, are suitable for a way  to know the characteristics of spoken English. 

##BBC podcast##

At the site of BBC, there is a podcast program of "6 Minutes English" and "English We Speak". Viewers are free of charge. You can either drop the contents to your i-phone or your i-pod and listen to the contents, you can also listen on the web. If you downroad the contents to your i-pod, you can practice English in some free time around the house, or riding the train. 

##The importance of the script##

 The most important thing to note here is to listen to the audio while looking at the script. Of course, looking at the script each and every time is hard to hear the voice. So we do not see in such a way that might make sense to look at the script while listening to it later, a voice was heard in advance nephew.