Listening is not only about hearing some voices, but in listening we need our concentration and other skill to catch the information from the speaker. So, today I've tried to listen some daily conversation on Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab (again) from each its level; easy, medium and difficult.
On easy level, I chose College Life. As it name, "easy", it was quite easy to understand. From their conversation I got an interesting points from the girl. She said that she changed her mind to choose computer science than French because she thought that it might be quite hard to find a job with "language". As a student of language, it took my attention and made me a little bit worry about my future job. Sounds funny how a recording affect me, but that's what I feel this time. Lol. By the way, I got 100 for the score of the exercise.
Next, to the medium one. I got a video with two socks doll on it. It's College Roommates. Quite funny. I love their style of speaking. Their accent is unique. To answer the exercise, I need to understand their implied meaning. For example, like when the yellow sock said "...do you called midnight earlier?" So, in here we should know and understand that midnight is at 12:00 am. On the exercise I got 80 score, and I'm not really satisfied with that. So I'm gonna practice my listening activity regularly from now on.
The last is the difficult level, Easy Pet Care. I know this is truly difficult because on its exercise I got 40 score, and that was bad... I think I should more focus and sharpen my identifying skill. Because as we know, in listening we do need to identify the context of the speech to get the right information. In this recording, the speakers talk really fast with a dog's bark as a background. And yea, to be honest, it was confusing enough for me to get the point of the conversation.
Well, I've tried. Practice make perfect, right?
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