Improve your English listening and speaking with The Three Listen Rule.
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Improve your English listening and speaking with The Three Listen Rule.

A1BeginnerJuly 8, 202617 min

Improve your English listening and speaking with The Three Listen Rule. In this English Unleashed episode, Tom teaches you a simple and powerful way to practise listening in English. Many English learners listen to one podcast, one video, or one dialogue only once. Then they move to the next lesson. But if you listen only one time, your brain has too much work to do. You are trying to understand the words, the meaning, the grammar, the pronunciation, and the speaker’s speed all at the same time. That is why The Three Listen Rule ca...

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Hello and welcome back to English Unleashed. I'm Tom. And today I want to teach you a very simple rule for better listening. I call it the three-listen rule.

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It is easy to understand, but it can change the way you study English. Many learners listen to one audio one time. They finish it and think, okay, I listened. Then they move to another video, another podcast, another lesson, another story.

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But here's the problem. One listen is often not enough. When you listen only one time, your brain is very busy. It is trying to hear the words.

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