In the second stage of English listening, vague English gradually becomes clear, and every sound and syllable can be heard, indicating that an English filtering system has been formed in your head. Continue to increase the number of repetitions on the basis of listening clearly, and you will gradually find that you can predict what you are about to hear, which shows that your language learning center has begun to grasp the probability of English content and is counting it.
Next, we will enter the third stage of English listening-accurate prediction. This stage strengthens the "prediction" of the second stage into "accurate prediction"? And help you quickly enter the fourth stage-English thinking formation, that is to say, you can understand the meaning of English directly in English without translation.
Now we are all trying to entertain and educate, so many children, even if their parents like to let their children learn English by watching cartoons, have derived animated English, and many students have told me that they can often understand their friends? American dramas such as Desperate Housewives can't understand cartoons, because cartoons are always vague and have strange tone. I feel connected, and I can't list words. This makes many students very confused.
In fact, if you put yourself in the other's shoes, you can understand that cartoons are for foreign children, just like CCTV introduces them to early childhood education. Similarly, the spoken language in Winnie the Pooh is different from the speed, pronunciation and intonation of people's daily speech. So in fact, the English in cartoons is very different from the "standard pronunciation" we usually listen to.
Many students think that the announcers in BBC and VOA have standard pronunciation. When they are familiar with standard pronunciation, those non-standard pronunciations will be solved easily. In fact, this is also a misunderstanding. In fact, when you understand BBC or VOA, you will find that few British and American people can pronounce as clearly as BBC and VOA, just as we don't have so many hosts and announcers in China.
In fact, the announcers of BBC and VOA or the readers of new concepts do not use the pronunciation and intonation of ordinary British and American people, but a beautified and somewhat artificial accent. This kind of pronunciation can be used to correct the pronunciation of individual words, but it is not suitable for listening training. If it is for exams, it is another matter. However, once you get used to this pronunciation, it's hard to listen to the original TV program, because you always distinguish the pronunciation of "single words" according to the standard pronunciation.
Many of China people's hearing problems are caused by putting "standard pronunciation" in their own minds and taking it as the standard of grammar. In this way, once there is deviation, they will be in a hurry. Especially when it comes to the original British and American TV movies, it is a mess.
In fact, people in Britain and America have never used the tone and speed of speech of BBC, VOA announcer or new concept reader since childhood. They are generally not so slow and clear, and they always roll and climb together. Of course, we don't need to pronounce like them, but we should approach such authentic live pronunciation in listening training.