12/2/2023 0 Comments Are you listening in spanish![]() The great thing about these Podcasts is that you CAN repeat-listen as many times as you like. We pitch them at different skill levels and they provide you the opportunity of listening in to find out how much you can pick up and understand. At the end of many of our Podcast series’ we produce a ‘Test your Spanish Listening Skills’ podcast. If you can relate to this in any way, then fear not! Help is at hand. We study away, scribbling in our books and reading everything we can get our hands on and yet, when we are faced with any test of our Spanish listening or speaking skills, we react like the rabbit in the headlights and clam up. The problem with avoiding Spanish listening or speaking opportunities is that we never get any practice at it and so never get any better. For that reason, they avoid any Spanish listening or speaking situations. In fact, we would go as far as to say that making a mistake in Spanish is, for many sensitive students, a cardinal sin. When we are speaking off the cuff, we either say what we want to say correctly, or we cock it up.Īnd that is frightening to us. When we listen in a live situation, for example, we either catch the idea or we don’t. There is little chance for us to repeat and repeat our sentences until we get them right. Why? Because these two mediums of communication are the least forgiving. ![]() What most learners are afraid of, however, is having to listen or to speak Spanish. Don’t you agree? Listening and Speaking makes no allowances. It’s all just so very comfortable for us as learners. What is more, when you read and write you can repeat the same sentence over and over again until you get it to what you perceive to be a good level. We have time, we can ponder at our leisure about the meaning of something or how we should structure a particular sentence. Reading and writing is a very safe part of learning a language. Of course, we know fine well why this is. In our experience, the vast majority of students only want to read and write most of the time. There really is something very strange about what happens to people when they embark on the task of learning Spanish.
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