In this episode, I'll be talking about passive listening.

In other words, listening in the background.

Later on, we'll practice conversation skills with a powerful question and answer technique.

Okay, let's get started.

In the language industry, there's an approach called passive listening.

This means playing some English in the background, while performing other tasks. In theory,

you're learning because the brain is always listening, no matter how.

Interesting, huh?

You just need to play some English while you're cleaning, jogging, surfing the internet, etc.

Well, although this approach may be appealing to many of you, here's the bad news.

It doesn't work as a whole system for developing a complete fluency in English.

The main drawback is that when we need to learn new content, our brain needs to pay attention,

to be active. So, in an ideal world, we would be 100% focus all the time while listening. We'd pay attention to every tiny detail, vocabulary, pronunciation,

intonation, etc. However, as you may already know, idyllic things are sometimes

hard to achieve. If you need perfect conditions every time you listen, for example,

feeling rested, motivated, in a quiet place, then you will never start listening. What you need is a

compromise. It's okay to lose concentration from time to time. Here's my suggestion. For new content,

try to maintain your concentration as much as possible.

However, when you're repeating the same content,

you don't need to focus 100% of your attention anymore,

because in this case, you're just remembering and consolidating. Another aspect to keep in mind, in this case, you're just remembering and consolidating.

Another aspect to keep in mind. In this case, quantity is more important than quality.

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