English Tip 6

**Tip 6 Listening Produces FAST Speech, not Reading
It seems simple, yet most students focus their study on reading. Reading real English novels and books IS a great way to learn. It will improve your reading and your writing.

However, if you want to SPEAK faster, you must focus on listening. Great speech comes from great listening. The more you listen to real English, the faster you will speak.

You have faster spoken grammar. You understand native speakers faster. Your pronunciation is better.

Listening is the super-key to success. You want speed. You want to speak FAST.

We talk about listening in our books and reports. We talk about listening on our blogs and our podcasts. We talk about listening in all of our email courses.

We focus on listening because it is the most important activity for students.

"I just want tell you my own experience with the course. I began to enjoy it approximately 5 months ago. I tried to follow the method because of my work. I work with General Electric as a contractor. Well, I went to Atlanta, GA last November (a whole month!) for training purposes.

I was very surprised because I realized that the method works. I felt confident and relaxed all the time. During the meetings I could understand almost 90% of the conversation. When I answered something, the words came out almost automatically... I could express my thoughts and feelings! I'm so happy with the course. I'll continue studying so I can talk more fluently."
--Jose Antonio Abrajan Perez, Mexico

**How To Understand and Speak Faster

You know listening is most important-- but what should you listen to?

Well, first let's talk about what you should not listen to. Don't listen to textbook conversations. They are not real English. They are formal. The pronunciation is strange and unnatural. There is no emotion in them. And the vocabulary comes from English writing, not from English speaking.

So no textbook tapes or CDs. What should you listen to?

Any natural (real) English from native speakers. We recommend podcasts, TV shows, movies, natural English lessons, and recorded conversations. There are many of these on the internet.

Your Homework for today is to start listening to my podcast Flow English: Slang of the Week at:
http://www.FlowEnglish.libsyn.com

Good luck,