#relistening

[sqermygeco]

Guys you’d never guess what just happened to Jon again (kidnapped)

[cobalt-knave]

guys i LOVE taz graduation

[rigelmejo]

If you have not tried relistening to something you habe trouble comprehending in your target language, please try sometime.

Pick something you could read and comprehend 95% or more of the words in (so look at the transcript or text chapter). That means for every 100 words, you need to look up 5 words or less. So for a 500 word page of text, you would need to look up 25 words or less to understand it). You can pick something you understand less of. But if you pick something you know 95% of the words for, then you understand enough that even if you looked up NO words you could comprehend most of it and guess the meanings of most of the unknown words. Pick the material. Maybe it's a chapter you've already read (so even if you only understood 80% you've looked up unknown words already while reading and NOW understand 95% or more), or a podcast for your language learning level (so it has a transcript with nearly all words you know).

Then listen to the audio version. The first time you listen to it, you will maybe recognize 20-50% of the words. Maybe more words if you already have good listening comprehension. And you KNOW you know most of these words if you were reading instead of listening. So you listen a second time, recognize more words. Listen 5-10 times. Listen until you no longer recognize ANY more words. Listen until you no longer recognize and understand any fill phrases or sentences. You can probably listen 20 times and keep recognizing New stuff (gaining listening comprehension of words and grammar you knew how to read already). So just listen until you're bored of the audio: since at that point you won't want to keep listening. And if you're unmotivated, it's not going to be something you can get yourself to keep doing.

Try it sometime, listen 5-10 times to something. You don't have to pay your full attention. Listen while browsing tumblr or other social media, reading a fanfiction, while driving or walking or doing chores, listen while playing a video game, while doing work (if you can work while some audio plays in the background). You will likely notice some improvement by the 5th listen, even if you were only listening in the background. If you notice enough improvement, that will help you decide if relistening is an exercise you want to keep doing sometimes.

Theres a lot of youtubers whove made good videos on relistening or repeated listening, how they do it, how it helps them. Im just repeating advice they've said, along wirh how it goes when I do it.

From my perspective, it can just be cool to see an audio you "barely comprehend" go to such a higher amount of comprehension, with so little effort of just replaying audio in the background. As far as improving listening comprehension goes, its one of the easier ways, in terms of low focus and being able to multitask, to drag listening skills closer to reading skills if your reading skills are higher. (Other activities that help are listening WHILE reading which is intense focus, or reading a transcript while listening then re-listening without transcript and going back and forth doing that, speaking to people).

[lovingdonutnut]

Ithaca saga... ithaca saga the saga that you are.....

[bones-partys]

A comic from work today

[aaaaaa-musical-trash]

i wish valles vicky showed up again :(((

[aikouncoloured]

Yes, I'm relistening to all of tma after I listened to the magnus protocol, I think that's good enough. Doing it for my tma bestie so I can completely understand all the references they make :D

[meliake]

FUCK EPISODE 37

[bosskickss]

PADEN IS ADORABLE. and paden snoring is so cute

[it-feels-pink]

so many Stevens universe haters here. no drive my van into your heart? no love like you? no what can i do for you?? no giant woman? no destiny???

[heppileppi]

not only would they win a gift card but also a mug

[sadpossumflan]

besira and daisy

autors note : did this to absolutly crush u sensible tma fans

-daisy is crying but only from one eye (only one part of herself is still herself enough to be in pain )

-they have the same eye colour (the hunt has them both)

-they both have matching mouth scars ,likly from eachother, symbol for their hurtful relationship, but also of their close bond in that pain.

-besira is still holding on close even tho she already has bite marks on her hands

-they are not looking at eachother

-besiera's headscraf is white like daisy's teeth (white being a colour closly associated with innocence) : to eachother , they are good people.

cryed while drawing this ;-;

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[marlowe-art]

some eggs for eggtober 🍳

[blossompigeon]

unicorn

[theglowqueen]

Martin: My crush has gone through something traumatic and doesn't seem to be doing too well. I'm gonna make sure I pay attention to him and try and help. 🤗

Jon: Martin(derogatory) is going to kill me