#micorobin

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warm shaleBOT
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Please be patient

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dire berry
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Understanding fast-spoken language comes in a matter of years, not months. Make sure you use different types of inputs, use material appropriate for your level and you'll get there!

charred tiger
dire berry
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Using material that is challenging without being totally unintelligible to you would be a good start

jolly nova
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It's good to have a variety of different levels of content

dire berry
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That's interesting, I never did it that way. If it's too hard I just get discouraged lol

jolly nova
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Well, I wouldn't recommend actually focusing on high level content

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Especially if you're understanding 0% of what's being said

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But if you can understand bits and pieces it can be good for passive learning

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Get your ears used to it

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Without putting any further effort into it that would discourage you

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But having really simple stuff where you understand close to 100% and stuff you understand maybe 50% of is also good

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Having some challenge and also some moments for confidence building/getting comfortable with what you already know

dire berry
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yeah passive learning with high-level stuff can be good, like subtitled movies/shows

high quest
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Albatros is giving good advice. It’s common that people just say watch movies with subs and this is okay but you aren’t training your ears as much to familiarize yourself with the sounds. This is probably just my experience though, when reading subs I’m not hearing and focusing on the sounds as much. For training my ears the only thing that made me see improvement was Learning French with Lexie.