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Regular articles, tips and advice on understanding spoken EnglishRead by topic:
Understand native speakers: hard to understand aren’t they? Here’s why & what to do about it
Understand English movies: understand movies and TV shows without subtitles
Listening tips: improve your English listening skills with these tips
Podcast: improve your listening in English with my podcast episodes from the archive
Interviews: expert interviews on listening skills, language learning, living abroad and more
Motivation and Mindset: boost your motivation to understand fast English
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Learn Chunks Of Language To Become Subtitle Free
Hello Leo Listeners. This week I’m thrilled to introduce you to a 3rd guest poster on this site: Luciana Fernandes from Sounds like English. Luciana is from Brazil and has figured out how to reach high fluency in English herself through audio. She’s a big fan of...
Re-introducing Movie Mindset shift. Eliminate the urge to throw your laptop out of the window
Watch the video: Listen to the post: Have you seen this quote before on the internet? "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Apparently Einstein said this. It reminds me of my approach to watching French films at school...
Subtitle Free – “Never Let Me Go”
Recap In the previous post we were talking about the two things that you must do whenever you want to understand anything that you listen to, preferably something that has some kind of written text to go with it like subtitles or a transcript. First you need to...
Why You’ll Never Understand “Never Let Me Go” By Just Listening
Recap In the previous post, I started my series on watching the film "Never let me go" without the subtitles – that's our ultimate goal. We talked about feeling good about the film, even if you have to watch it initially with subtitles. It's not your fault because I...
Struggling To Understand – “Never Let Me Go” Without Subtitles – Don’t Panic
I'm Cara from leo-listening.com and I help bookworms and vocab nerds to break free from subtitles! So if that's you, keep reading! Last week on the blog we had an amazing post, (I think it's one of the best on there), A guest post from Trisha of Vagabond English where...
Read The Book, Watch The Film, Turn Off The Subtitles
Hello Leo Listeners. Today I’m thrilled to welcome my second guest blogger to the Leo Listening blog, Trisha from Vagabond English. Trisha’s website is all about finding your voice in English through the books you read. Today she’s bringing her reading in English...
Americans vs Brits: what makes us so hard to understand?
This week I’m joined on the blog by fellow online English teacher, Christina Rebuffet, the creator of Speak English with Christina. Like me she lives in France with her French husband. Unlike me she’s American and that’s exactly why I brought her on for a chat....
Subtitle Free After a Week: Giulia’s Subtitle Freedom Journey
I’d like to welcome yet another student interviewee to the blog today: Giulia who lives in the north-east of Italy, near Venice. She joined me for the July round of Freedom from Subtitles. She wanted to work on a series I’d never seen before: Jane the Virgin. It’s one...
How To Master Spoken English When You Already Know Written English
Do you understand written English, but you're struggling to master spoken English? Don’t worry. This is a common problem, and I’m here to help you so that you can understand spoken English, too. First, this post will give you some reasons why you understand written...
The #1 thing you need to know about subtitle freedom
Are you making this mistake when it comes to getting subtitle free? Most learners of English are. What is it? Just listening and hoping to understand. So what’s a better solution? You need to learn how to understand. If you’re...