[yulong]

It's practising level

[bacpp]

Originally Posted by yulong

It's practising level

Then hearing only is the 1st, not Eng sub (it's even worse)

When you watch movie with sub (subtitle), you can see text clearly BEFORE you listen, you have time to translate, to predict what they would say even they haven't said it yet,... These advantages don't exist in real life. So, it's will damage your listening skill. Trust me.

You can do this test. While watching movie with English subtitle, please focus on screen for a while, don't look at the sub. You'll immediately feel different.

//omg, above is one of my longest documents which I have ever written in English before Please check and report mistake for me

[yulong]

Originally Posted by bacpp

Then hearing only is the 1st, not Eng sub (it's even worse)

When you watch movie with sub (subtitle), you can see text clearly BEFORE you listen, you have time to translate, to predict what they would say even they haven't said it yet,... These advantages don't exist in real life. So, it's will damage your listening skill. Trust me.

You can do this test. While watching movie with English subtitle, please focus on screen for a while, don't look at the sub. You'll immediately feel different.

//omg, above is one of my longest documents which I have ever written in English before Please check and report mistake for me

I think listening without sub is the last step, once you've mastered it, you're a pro. A beginner shouldn't try doing this
Btw, I hightlighted some mistakes, not to mention articles missing

[bacpp]

Originally Posted by yulong

I think listening without sub is the last step, once you've mastered it, you're a pro. A beginner shouldn't try doing this
Btw, I hightlighted some mistakes, not to mention articles missing

If you go strait to hearing only step, of course you may not understand everything, but you'll be familiar with English. When you are in free time or don't need silence, leave your TV on with CNN, Discovery channel, it helps too.

The point of listening is understanding, not to type what others say. So don't be too serious in grammar.

[Paladin.]

Almost students in our country have problem with speaking & listening, but actually these two problems just come from one same root: pronunciation.

With the film & subtitle this problem can be gradually solved. You see the word, you hear the word. Your brain will do the rest of the job in comparing & storing them in your memory.

After a while, you can turn off the subtitle but still can recognize the word you hear. Listening problem is solved.
When you speak, you know how to say the word, how to spell it, and you don't feel scare, feel shy, feel confusing anymore.
Speaking problem is solved also!

That's a conditional reaction.
Mere science!

[Daviath.]

I just have a test with the last-year-university-entrance-examination, and I have many stupid mistake, but there're some sentences I cant understand:
1. There was no thing they could do but leave the car at the roadside where it has broken down
My choice is instead of
2. Only when you grow up will you know the truth
My one is you will know
3. "I'd rather you went home now"
go

Explain to me please
Thanks in advance
1 more question, is it "explain me" or "explain to me" ?

[yulong]

Originally Posted by bacpp

If you go strait to hearing only step, of course you may not understand everything, but you'll be familiar with English. When you are in free time or don't need silence, leave your TV on with CNN, Discovery channel, it helps too.

The point of listening is understanding, not to type what others say. So don't be too serious in grammar.

@ the orange text: Maybe you've got a wrong understanding of how bad our BEGINNERs are with sub, my younger brother understands only 40-50% of the movies I gave him (He was born in 1993 and is going to graduate from high school next year). And I know one thing that he's better than lots of my friends in technology universities (HUT, HUNS, LQĐTU). Imagine what they can get without sub

@ the red one: A great idea! Haven't tried before but i'm sure it helps a lot!

@ black one: Perfect your grammar, it's important, believe me.

[Sannomiya]

Originally Posted by Daviath.

I just have a test with the last-year-university-entrance-examination, and I have many stupid mistake, but there're some sentences I cant understand:
1. There was no thing they could do but leave the car at the roadside where it has broken down
My choice is instead of
2. Only when you grow up will you know the truth
My one is you will know
3. "I'd rather you went home now"
go

Explain to me please
Thanks in advance
1 more question, is it "explain me" or "explain to me" ?

They are all fixed expressions, man. You should check your textbooks for these types of sentences.
Explain smt to smb.

[Sannomiya]

Originally Posted by yulong

@ the orange text: Maybe you've got a wrong understanding of how bad our BEGINNERs are with sub, my younger brother understands only 40-50% of the movies I gave him (He was born in 1993 and is going to graduate from high school next year). And I know one thing that he's better than lots of my friends in technology universities (HUT, HUNS, LQĐTU). Imagine what they can get without sub

@ the red one: A great idea! Haven't tried before but i'm sure it helps a lot!

@ black one: Perfect your grammar, it's important, believe me.

I would say that again, mate. You will see how important grammar is when you have to read highly complex textbook or when you do some translation.

[yulong]

Originally Posted by Daviath.

I just have a test with the last-year-university-entrance-examination, and I have many stupid mistake, but there're some sentences I cant understand:
1. There was no thing they could do but leave the car at the roadside where it has broken down
My choice is instead of
2. Only when you grow up will you know the truth
My one is you will know
3. "I'd rather you went home now"
go

Explain to me please
Thanks in advance
1 more question, is it "explain me" or "explain to me" ?

1. Except. "But" and "except" mean "ngoại trừ" and "instead of" means "thay vì"
But "leave" should be "leaving" or "to leave", either it's a mistake from the test or you remembered it wrong.
But hey, what did the test ask you to do?