Voluntarily Doing Lab
Don’t know why I didn’t think to do this before as I’ve known about the Listening Labs site for a long time. It has many simple conversations between two people rated as easy, medium, and hard. Each conversation has audio, a script, and a quiz. This is the process I’ve been following:
- Listen to audio with no help.
- Read quiz while listening to audio, which provides conversation cues.
- Answer quiz.
- Read script while listening to audio.
- Listen to another audio.
- Repeat steps 1 - 4 for a couple of more scenarios.
- Listen to previously reviewed audio to see how much I remember / grasp.
It’s a simple process taking as little as five minutes making it possible for me to fit it into my overwhelming schedule. It also gives me a nice break from computer work when my eyes get tired. The best part is when I do catch words and sometimes sentences in the first step. Sometimes, however, when I think I catch a phrase isn’t so. For example, I thought I heard, “watch TV and talking on the cell phone.”
It was actually, “watch TV and talk until 10 o’clock.” I listened to it again and it still sounds like ‘cell phone’ even knowing it’s ‘10 o’clock.’
The script with a 5-year-old girl gave me a headache. Her voice sounded whiny. Hmm, I have a 5-year-old, could that be why I’m dizzy all the time? :)
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