Listening Training website?

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fellipe88

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Hi. This is my first post here. I'm from Brazil and I'm looking to improve my speaking and listening skills.
I've just found a nice website lyricstraining (don't know if I can post the link here) that helps with listening and understanding musics.

My question is if anyone here knows if there's a similar website but with 'general' conversation. So instead of listening to music I'd like to listen to actual people talking.

Thanks!
Fellipe
 

tom3m

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Good evening and welcome to the forums. Rather than trying to find a website, I can recommend you watching TV in English i.e. English TV channels - BBC for example. :)
 

Esredux

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Hi Fellipe,

You might also find the following sites helpful:

TED.com
intelligencesquared.org
randall's esl cyber listening lab

You can easily find them yourself. The first two offer just authentic listening with optional scripts, the last one tests comprehension as well.
 
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Hi,
I can suggest that you find some listening practice that gives you the scripts. Listening to pure conversation without a script can be a major challenge! I am trying now in Spanish and without scripts, I am just guessing at what they are saying.
Another feature that is handy is having a target for your listening. Just listening to 'anything' is overwhelming. try searching for 'targetted english listening' or a similar search term.

-Les
 

emsr2d2

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Most of the talks on TED are video + subtitles. They're very helpful and I used them a lot with my students in Spain.
 
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