A working plan of 5 months to improve my listening skills

Improve listening skills

A working plan of 5 months to improve my listening skills

Framework

Multimedia:                                        50 Hours

Course book:                                      100 Hours

Websites:                                            50 Hours

Applications and soft wares:              50 Hours

I will try to use the materials below to improve my listening skills. 

Lectures

Martin Luther King

Barak Obama

John F Kennedy

Abdur Raheem Green

Sheikh Imran Hussein

Ismail Musa Jibreel

Hamza Yusuf

Movies

12 Angry Men (Hindi- Ek Ruka Hua Faysla)

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

All is Lost

Bad Taste (1987)

Black Hawk Down

First Blood

King Rat

Lawrence of Arabia

Lion of the Desert

Lone Survivor

Lord of the Flies

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

No Escape

The Great Escape

The Enemy Below

The Thing

U-571

Watch the Hill

Course Books

Headway series.

Cambridge IELTS series.

Websites

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

https://www.playphrase.me

https://www.englishcentral.com/

https://www.listen-and-write.com/

Android Applications

1. Learn English By Conversation

2. English Podcast for Learners

3. Learn English Elementary Podcasts

4. Voice of America (VOA)

5. English Listening and Speaking

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MD.DIDARUL ISLAM  

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Audiobooks.com: A product review

Audiobooks.com: A product review

Using the android app ‘Audiobooks.com’ is a new experience for me. I have been using audio books applications for the last one year. Previously, I have used ‘LibriVox Audio Books’, and my experience was sound. However, Audiobooks.com seems like an audiobook marketplace. Though they offer some free audiobooks, most of them are taken from LibriVox public domain. I have sorted out some good sides and some recommendations for this app below:

Good Sides:

A common platform for a lot of audio books in many niches e.g. free, paid, literature, science, language etc.

Can be browsed without logging in.

Collection for both free and paid books is huge.

 Recommendations

User interface is a bit problematic.

Sometimes, does not work properly and makes the phone static.

Should provide more free audiobooks.

Should include books in other languages than English.

  

Overall Rating

4 out of 5
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MD.DIDARUL ISLAM  

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English Pronunciation Awabe: A product review

English Pronunciation Awabe: A product review

English Pronunciation Awabe: A product review

I first started using an electronic pronunciation dictionary in 2016 while taking my ‘Phonetics and Phonology’ course. I am still using that application “Pronunciation Dictionary” developed by Bibooki. The core difference between that app and English Pronunciation Awabe is the later one provides a lot of specific pronunciation drills which are helpful for pronunciation remedy. The points below are my comments on this app:

Good Sides

It is easy to use.

Useful for practicing and correcting pronunciation.

Provides both British and American examples.

Recommendations

There is room for improving the interface.

No phonetic or phonemic transcriptions provided.

Full of advertisements, therefore very disturbing.

No option for offline use.

The sound recognition tool troubles sometimes.

Overall Rating

3.5 Out of 5

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How I can Improve My Listening Skill

                   How I can Improve My Listening Skill

I want to improve my listening skill. Here goes my plan for next five months;
1.Listening BBC news and will try to understand their pronunciation.
2.Listening English songs and speeches and understand different accents.
3.Watching English movies with subtitle
4.Using English technology like audio books, websites, AWABE pronunciation apps.
5.Understand different accents like American pronunciation, British pronunciation.

Written By:  Sheikh Mohammad Emon, 
                      mail: sheikhemon03@gmail.com 
Edited By:    StudentsGate  

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MD.DIDARUL ISLAM  Read more: Cultures without Borders in the Globalized World   Identifying Linguistic Development of a 33 Months Old Bengali Child in Bangla Language