ONE thing that will improve your English Listening Skills

if you want to improve your English listening skills don't try to understand each and every word let's find out what to do [Music] instead hello it's Keith from the Keith speaking Academy and the YouTube channel English speaking success where you become a more confident speaker of English you know I think the biggest

mistake that students make when listening to English is sometimes they try to understand every single word and you can't even I can't if you do that you get lost quickly you can't keep up and then you you give up and you give up my white towel you must go beyond individual words right the secret

the secret the one thing you should do is always focus on the gist first the gist is the overall idea right just try to understand the overall general idea how can you do that focus on the stressed words in a text or in a sentence these are the key ones that you really need in order to understand what

someone is saying teachers we we call this sentence stress right and in this video I'm going to show you how sentence stress works and how knowing sentence stress will help you understand much more when you listen to real English let's do it so sentence stress refers to the words we stress in a sentence

surprise we stress the most important words us the nouns the verbs the adjectives adverbs not usually prepositions or pronouns or question words right okay for example I live in a town near London live the verb town the noun London a noun proper noun a real noun so why is this important because not all languages do this so in that

sentence right I live in a town near London you can hear the Rhythm I live near I live in a town near London right I live in a town near London now we don't go around all the speaking like this all the time where are you from hello my name is Keith hello my name is Keith we don't go