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Jul 2021
11m 44s

#180 Listening In The Background

Georgiana, founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com
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  • I'll be talking about passive listening, or in other words, listening in the background. 
  • Later on, we'll practice conversation skills with the powerful Question & Answer technique.

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 learning, no matter how.

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.

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