Improve Your Reading and Listening Skills With This Strategy

Listen first.

Listen IMO, if you dont know how it (language) should sound, you could read a word you know
and not understand it simply because you sound wrong.
BUT reading should start early, 50 hours probably.

April 12 2025

Reading first then vocabulary then listening

Importance of Reading and Listening

- Both skills are essential for language learning and reinforce each other.
- The common question is whether to read or listen first.

Connection Between Reading and Listening:

- Reading activates complex cognitive processes and often involves subvocalization (saying the words mentally).
- Listening before reading helps with pronunciation and facilitates subvocalization.

Strategies by Level

a) Beginner (A1-A2):

-Listen to a sentence, then read it, and repeat both steps.
-At the beginning, it’s better to listen first to get familiar with sounds.

b) Intermediate (B1):

- It becomes easier to listen first.
- Combine intensive reading (looking up key words) with extensive reading (reading without stopping).

c) Advanced (B2+):

- No need to repeat as much.
- You can listen and read separately without relying on the transcript.

Conclusion:

- There’s no fixed rule on what to do first.
- The key is to develop a taste for both reading and listening for more effective learning.

Importance of Reading and Listening

- Both skills are essential for language learning and reinforce each other.
- The common question is whether to read or listen first.

Connection Between Reading and Listening:

- Reading activates complex cognitive processes and often involves subvocalization (saying the words mentally).
- Listening before reading helps with pronunciation and facilitates subvocalization.

Strategies by Level

a) Beginner (A1-A2):

-Listen to a sentence, then read it, and repeat both steps.
-At the beginning, it’s better to listen first to get familiar with sounds.

b) Intermediate (B1):

- It becomes easier to listen first.
- Combine intensive reading (looking up key words) with extensive reading (reading without stopping).

c) Advanced (B2+):

- No need to repeat as much.
- You can listen and read separately without relying on the transcript.

Conclusion:

- There’s no fixed rule on what to do first.
- The key is to develop a taste for both reading and listening for more effective learning.

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Thanks a lot Sir...I'm going to practice as you mentioned indeed.
Warm regards from Argentina.

If anyone cannot understand listening, how can they understand what you are saying😅

For me listening is easier than reading because when listen I ignore unknown words and guess meaning of the sentence in context while reading I am afraid of many unknown words which slowdown my understanding of sentence meaning.

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What this word of list is doing in the word of listening

Why choose? Do both at the same time.

I have been studying Swedish for the past 3 years by translating song lyrics.

So I listen to the songs and read the lyrics. At the same time.

Thank you very much.

Listen, write, read repeat.

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Какие индикаторы считаешь самыми важными?

This was a great video enough productive .

Thank you for your videos .Ihave learned a lot about trying to speak French from them.
The advice do not try to understand everything as it comes along has been most helpful.I was trying too hard and in doing so was putting too much pressure on myself .
Now i know how to take it easy and enjoy learning more.
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You and your channel help me more and more times.
I learn here for a lot of information and strategies.

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Reading ...or at the same time .

That’s all wrong that used your eyes contact is the most important skills that animals had on earth then is the voices spreading the situations of that the earth causes.

This is exactly why I have problems with Czech when I read as I'm sure my pronunciation is wrong😢

Steve, I am studying Japanese… 8 months in… know hiragana/katakana … no Kanji… I find your program interesting, but I do not want to waste my money… I would be able to read Kana… I need help learning vocabulary…. Some say that LingQ is for more the intermediate level..

I've learned English by myself with books and records 40 years ago.
For me it was better to listen first and try to learn the sentences, the rythm of the speech was important too.
I found that the pronunciation of some English words are far from what is written, and many people make the mistake of pronounce then guided by the writing.

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Is very good