Wondering why TED talks are easier to understand than two native speakers chatting?
I'll explain why by comparing the way Brené Brown speaks in her TED talk on shame compared to an interview with Marie Forleo.
You'll learn what the differences are and why listening to spontaneous, native speech in English can be so tough.
Links mentioned in this video:
Personal development and listening videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzUq7XYDsg-oO0TTtdslgNb-_NP9ViY0
More on Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/
Brené's talk on Vulnerability: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Brené's listening to shame talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
3 tips to spice up your TED talks: https://www.leo-listening.com/ted-talks/
What are the disfluency features I mention: https://www.leo-listening.com/stop-translating-start-understanding/
Brenés interview with Marie Forleo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FopgKyAfI&feature=youtu.be
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Wondering why TED talks are easier to understand than two native speakers chatting?
I'll explain why by comparing the way Brené Brown speaks in her TED talk on shame compared to an interview with Marie Forleo.
You'll learn what the differences are and why listening to spontaneous, native speech in English can be so tough.
Links mentioned in this video:
Personal development and listening videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzUq7XYDsg-oO0TTtdslgNb-_NP9ViY0
More on Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/
Brené's talk on Vulnerability: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Brené's listening to shame talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
3 tips to spice up your TED talks: https://www.leo-listening.com/ted-talks/
What are the disfluency features I mention: https://www.leo-listening.com/stop-translating-start-understanding/
Brenés interview with Marie Forleo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FopgKyAfI&feature=youtu.be
Hey, I’m Cara and I help advanced learners who love TV and cinema fall back in love with their favourite films and series by getting subtitle free.
Join the Leo Listening Movement and get my free video on how to understand what you watch in English: https://www.leo-listening.com/join-the-movement/
To read along with the blog post as you listen, go to: www.leo-listening.com/blog/
Discover my products and services to help you break free from subtitles: www.leo-listening.com/learn-with-me/
Links I mention in this podcast:
Never Let Me Go Clip: https://youtu.be/vTYoUXubdqo
TubeQuizard: http://tubequizard.com/
VOscreen: https://www.leo-listening.com/get-sta...
Last week we were talking about the two things that you must do whenever you want to understand anything that you listen to, preferably something that has some kind of written text to go with it like subtitles or a transcript.
First you need to diagnose your problems, and we talked about the ways to do that in last week's post. The main way is to do dictations, and that's where you find out what you're struggling with. The second thing to do is to fix the problems.
We said that, typically in films, you're going to encounter problems due to unfamiliar cultural references, unfamiliar words, or words that you do know but that sound different in fast, spoken English.
In today's post we're focussing on that last situation, with words that you do know, but which sound different because most of the time, that's the problem that people have.
You hear words that you know, but they sound different because of the way sounds join together, or sounds disappear because of the way it sounds when we speak fast.
We're going to work on a clip from "Never let me go" which I think is quite challenging and we're going to talk about some of the typical tricky bits. We're also going to focus on different ways to fix the problems you might have.
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Wondering why TED talks are easier to understand than two native speakers chatting?
I'll explain why by comparing the way Brené Brown speaks in her TED talk on shame compared to an interview with Marie Forleo.
You'll learn what the differences are and why listening to spontaneous, native speech in English can be so tough.
Links mentioned in this video:
Personal development and listening videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzUq7XYDsg-oO0TTtdslgNb-_NP9ViY0
More on Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/
Brené's talk on Vulnerability: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Brené's listening to shame talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
3 tips to spice up your TED talks: https://www.leo-listening.com/ted-talks/
What are the disfluency features I mention: https://www.leo-listening.com/stop-translating-start-understanding/
Brenés interview with Marie Forleo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FopgKyAfI&feature=youtu.be
Hey, I’m Cara and I help advanced learners who love TV and cinema fall back in love with their favourite films and series by getting subtitle free.
Join the Leo Listening Movement and get my free video on how to understand what you watch in English: https://www.leo-listening.com/join-the-movement/
To read along with the blog post as you listen, go to: www.leo-listening.com/blog/
Discover my products and services to help you break free from subtitles: www.leo-listening.com/learn-with-me/
