To make this activity work well, it is essential that you choose authentic Italian material those made for native Italian speakers. If on the other hand you’ve managed to grasp 100% it means either you have reached a high level of Italian or maybe you’ve chosen a dialogue that is too easy or simple. In the end you should have a semi complete text in which just some parts will be missing. How many times exactly ? There’s no exact number, just keep going until you cease to make any further progress, that is to say until you are unable to add anything extra to your transcription to make it more complete.įor every word that you don’t understand or have doubts about, you can underline it, mark it out and leave it for the moment, allowing you to go ahead to the other words. You are now ready to write everything down, word for word, everything from those 30 seconds of dialogue, listening to the extract again and again without stopping. With the necessary preparation done for the audio, take a blank piece of paper. These days with the help of any computer or audio programme, you can easily select the part of the listening that you need at exactly the right place and listen to it an unlimited number of times. It doesn’t matter if you choose the start, middle or end of the text, you just need half a minute of material to work on. The first thing to do is to extract a fraction of dialogue from your original listening material of around 30 seconds.
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Now is the moment to continue to the analytical phase. So at this point your general understanding should be good, with a comprehension that can vary from between 20 and 70%. As suggested by the above title, here you work more on the details of the listening that you have now heard around 7 times. Even though I am still speaking about listening, here you enter into a different situation and adifferent approach. So here is the second listening technique, this time with your beloved pen at the ready. It isn’t really important if the number is high or low but whether you’ve improved from the start to the end. Some people may reach 30%, others 60% or more. And so on and so forth, from listening to listening I ask myself how much I have increased my understanding of this particular text. Let’s just note that from the first to the second we’ve gone from 5% to 7% or even from 10% to 20%. Did you understand anything extra on the second listening? A little more or a lot more is not important for now. After the first time how much did you understand? 1%? 5%? Good, let’s make a note of it. Then at the end of each listening you should ask yourself how much you have understood and take note of the approximate percentage (and yes, for this you can use your pen). Taking notes requires concentration and a certain level of energy that would be unfairly taken from the listening to which you should dedicate 100% of your attention. Another reason for which I suggest not writing anything during this phase is to not miss the opportunity to pick up on some aspects of the language that could be lost if you were writing. If you get used to this from the start, you will find you are better prepared to manage a real life conversation where you will also tie in all of the other language skills.
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Getting used to not using a pen from the start during listening practice is fundamental in helping yourself to understand the sense of a discussion and getting your brain ready to take on authentic situations of linguistic exchange. It is important not to write anything in this phase at least for the first five listenings (seven would be even better if you can resist the temptation…) to train your mind to adapt to a real life listening situation in which it would be absurd to stop and take notes while someone was speaking to you. You will see that with every additional listening you will be able to clarify more details (who is speaking, with whom and why). Listen to it 7 times, without taking notes or writing anything, simply emerging yourself in the story and trying to grasp the sense of the conversation. Choose an extract of around 3 minutes (minimum two, maximum four) that is based on a familiar or interesting topic, for example a hobby of yours. The so called general listening is the first of these techniques. Still thinking about it?! Time to choose your Italian course in Sicily! BOOK NOW ASK US University Faculty – Study Abroad programs in Italy
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