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What Happened When I Tried To Understand Italian TV?
Updated June 2021 How many TV channels do you have? Thanks to digital TV, we have hundreds, if not thousands of channels. We can watch: Turkish channels Armenian channels Latin American channels You name it, I think we’ve got it. When it comes to Italian TV, we’re...
Movie Club Retrospective: Round 1 2021
The Leo Listening Movie Club has finished its first round of 2021. The Movie Club opens three times a year for 3 months each time. So let's take a look back at the three movies we watched in the first quarter of 2021. The club is a democracy where the members suggest...
Dictations In English: Tiny Recordings Make A Big Difference To Your Listening Skills
Updated April 2021 When I talk about dictations, what comes to mind? I live in France where the word for dictations is ‘dictée'. For French people, a 'dictée' evokes a French language classroom at school and a French teacher reading out a passage from a book...
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