I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
I was taught in radio: if somebody is talking, then you don't talk over them.
I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'
Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
I want to speak better English.
I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which I cannot do - and it's just not a skill I have.
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.
When I was young, always in Serbia there were some telenovelas on television, Spanish language. Then you listen, listen, listen, you watch one series, and then you can understand.
People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.
Listening speaks louder than words.
I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
You can not hear what you do not understand.
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
I am taking Chinese lessons and I practice speaking Mandarin almost every day.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
Not all stories translate well when read out loud.
Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
