Learn how to sharpen your listening skills, find activities and resources you can use to help you and some easy tips you can follow to start improving not only what you hear in English, but what you understand! Daniel and Fey are joined by Listening expert Mariko, who shares her knowledge and expertise in this area!

ESL Talk

Listening Skills and Authentic Materials you can use to improve your English!

zhì tóng dào hé

指志向、观点相同，道路一致。

Chinese idioms (中国成语)

志同道合

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223062094952
https://youtu.be/UcQXFpOq01w

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2) - Lesson 5. Part 1 -는 바람에,  Part 2 -았더라면/-었더라면/-였더라면

Unlock the Olfactory Code: A Linguist's Guide to Scent-Based Memory Encoding

Fellow linguists, ever wondered if there's an untapped sensory pathway to accelerate language acquisition? Move beyond traditional auditory and visual models. In Episode 96 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we dissect a fascinating neuromorphic learning strategy: harnessing the Proustian effect for lexical and syntactic retention.

This episode isn't about another app or mnemonic device; it's a deep dive into the privileged neural architecture of the olfactory system and its direct link to the hippocampus and amygdala—the core hubs of memory consolidation and emotional recall. We explore the rigorous science of context-dependent memory and present a methodological framework for creating potent, scent-anchored memory traces.

In this episode, you will discover:

The neurobiological evidence for smell as a superior encoding context.

A replicable protocol for establishing a "signature learning scent" to enhance recall fidelity.

How to architect a scent-vocabulary palette for categorical lexical priming.

The implications of olfactory learning for affective filter reduction and long-term retention.

Forget what you know about learning. Remember with your nose.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 96 - How 🧴Your Nose💐can help you learn a language

你知道中文里的“火”除了着火还有什么意思吗？“火了”该怎么用吗？这节Dawn 老师播客小课堂就来帮你介绍这个小但是十分有用的词，火了。
欢迎收听并订阅: 字里行间 Between the Lines! 一起掌握更多有趣的汉语词汇用法吧！

Between the Lines 字里行间

Tylor Swift 订婚的消息火了

in this podcast we discuss about punjabi punjabi language,food,culture and history

Ustaad Yasir (Punjabi)

Introduction of Punjab- Episode 1

My mom and I take a quiz about American dialects to discover whether we speak the same way as other people from our region.

FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE⁠⁠: https://american-idiom.com/f/006-exploring-american-dialects-part-one

During our conversation, we also discuss regional vocabulary and accents from distinct sociocultural regions across the United States, including the South, the West Coast, New England, Texas, the Midwest and more.

You'll certainly learn a bit more about regional American cultures as well!

(This is just the first half of the quiz. I'll be posting the rest next week.)

And if you'd like to try the quiz yourself, it's available at the following link if you scroll to the bottom and click on 'How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk': ⁠https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/learning/what-does-your-accent-say-about-who-you-are.html⁠

***Detailed vocabulary lesson begins at 23:30***

Episode Outline:

 Explanation of 'Dialect' and 'Accent' (Starts at 2:20)
 Question 1 (You All vs. You vs. Y'all) - (Starts at 3:52)
 Question 2 (Pajamas) - (Starts at 4:25)
 Question 3 (Boulevard vs. Traffic Island) - (Starts at 5:25)
 Question 4 (Crayons) - (Starts at 7:32)
 Question 5 (Kitty Corner vs. Kitty Wampus) - (Starts at 11:12)
 Question 6 (Caramel) - (Starts at 12:54)
 Question 7 (Roly Poly, etc.) - (Starts at 13:54)
  Question 8 (Roundabout vs. Traffic Circle) - (Starts at 15:30)
  Question 9 (Sub, etc.) - (Starts at 17:05)
  Question 10 (Soda vs. Pop) - (Starts at 18:05)
  Question 11 (Crayfish vs. Crawfish) - (Starts at 20:18)
  Question 12 (Berm, etc.) - (Starts at 21:18)
  Question 13 (Semi-truck, etc.) - (Starts at 22:24)

Vocabulary and examples (Starts at 23:30)

  without further ado (used at 3:31 explained at 23:44)
  it is what it is (used at 8:42 explained at 26:08)
  to go off something (used at 10:08 explained at 28:23)
  to pop up (used at 16:44 explained at 31:11)
  to grow out of something (used at 18:39 explained at 33:19)

Brentoni's English Podcast

006 Exploring American Dialects (Part One)

Listen to me reading a short news article on stress as part of my Conversational English course.

Listen to English with Pip

Workplace stress

Anger is a regular almost daily emotion we all experience. Learning how to deal with it is essential to our emotional health and quality of life.
In this episode I'm offering my ideas on how to manage this emotion. 
If you have any thoughts or tips of your own, please DO share these in the comments.