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  • How do you improve your English listening skills?

  • If you ask this question to English teachers, they will tell you the same thing.

  • They will tell you to go watch movies

  • They will say that watching movies is a great way to improve your listening.

  • But there's a problem.

  • A lot of English learners watch movies with subtitles.

  • Some people use English subtitles.

  • Other people use subtitles in their native languages.

  • It doesn't matter what kind of subtitles you use.

  • Watching movies with subtitles is a really bad way to improve your listening.

  • And in this video, I'm going to explain to you why it's such a bad idea.

  • But first, let me share with you my personal experience.

  • So back when I was in college, I wanted to improve my English listening skills.

  • So what did I do?

  • Well, I started to watch movies with English subtitles.

  • I thought that that was the best way to improve my listening.

  • I was really optimistic.

  • I thought that in two or three years, I would be able to understand native speakers.

  • Unfortunately, it didn't work.

  • After six years of doing that, I still could not understand native speakers. I still needed

  • subtitles when watching a movie.

  • I was really disappointed.

  • I watched a lot of movies, but I still could not understand native speakers.

  • At that time, I didn't know why it didn't work. But now I do.

  • So let's talk about that right now.

  • First, there's one thing about listening that you need to know.

  • Listening and hearing are not the same.

  • If you want to improve your listening, make sure that when you practice listening, you're

  • really listening and not just hearing.

  • So what's the difference between listening and hearing?

  • Well, the difference is whether or not you're paying attention.

  • If you're paying attention, then you're listening.

  • If you're not paying attention, then that's just hearing.

  • So let me give you an example.

  • If you turn on the radio and pay attention to the sound from the radio, then that is

  • listening.

  • But if you turn on the radio and then you do something else like reading a book, then

  • that's just hearing.

  • You can hear the radio, but you're not paying attention to it.

  • You are not listening.

  • And again, if you want to improve your listening, make sure that you're really listening and

  • not just hearing.

  • You need to make sure that you're paying attention.

  • Now let's talk about watching movies with subtitles.

  • What's wrong with it? Why doesn't it work?

  • As you might have guessed, it doesn't work because you're not listening. You're just

  • hearing.

  • So let me explain.

  • When you watch a movie, you brain is trying to understand the movie.

  • But there isn't just one way to do that.

  • There are two ways or two options.

  • The first option is to focus on reading the subtitles.

  • The second option is to focus on listening to the sound.

  • Now I have a question for you:

  • Which option do you think your brain will choose? Reading or listening?

  • Well the answer is obvious.

  • You brain is going to focus on reading the subtitles.

  • Why? Because it's much easier.

  • The text on the screen is clear.

  • So it's very easy for you brain to process.

  • The sounds of people talking, on the other hand, are not that clear.

  • So it's much more difficult for your brain to figure out what people are saying.

  • As a result, you brain will pay attention to the subtitles and not the sounds.

  • So when you watch a movie with subtitles, you're not really improving your listening.

  • You're actually improving your reading.

  • That's why it doesn't work.

  • So the best way to improve your listening is to just listen.

  • Don't read and listen at the same time.

  • If you watch a movie in English, remove the subtitles, so that your brain will have to

  • focus on listening.

  • If you do that, your listening will improve much faster.

  • That said, there is still a problem.

  • If you remove the subtitles, then you won't understand the movie.

  • And if you don't understand the movie, then it's going to be boring.

  • So what should you do?

  • Well, here's my suggestion:

  • Don't try to improve your listening by watching movies.

  • Just watch movies for fun.

  • There is a better and faster way to improve your listening.

  • And that's the subject of the next video.

  • In the next video, I'll share with you the method I personally used to improve my English

  • listening skills.

  • So I'll see you again in the next video.

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