Autora: Verónica Amaro Bermejo
Listening is a very important skill to build for several reasons.
For one, you need to be able to understand someone correctly before you can respond. In fact, you can’t communicate with someone effectively if you can’t understand what they’re saying. Listening also help you to get a correct pronunciation, intonation, and vocabulary.
There are lots of useful apps to learn English for Android and iPhones, but the best and the most popular app is Learn English Audio & Video.
This is an app of British Council and it will help you listen to English and speak English more fluently.
There are many lessons divided into many levels from elementary to intermediate and advanced. You can choose one of two audio modes: Online Streaming and Offline to learn English.
This app also includes the list of necessary idioms and phrases used in daily talk and with it you can improve your comprehension by allowing you to read along with a moving audioscript, also you can expand your vocabulary by learning definitions for key words in each episode and improve your listening skills by watching and listening to real, everyday English conversations.
The videos and audio content cover topics such as how to pay a compliment and how to write a CV, and come with audioscripts and comprehension exercises.
By the other hand, you can test your understanding by answering comprehension exercises and improve your listening by enabling you to slow down the audio.
The app helps you learn everyday English by providing over 80 episodes and hours of free listening about a wide range of topics, as well as great new features that help you listen and understand the conversations.
There are many lessons divided into many levels from elementary to intermediate and advanced and also includes the list of necessary idioms and phrases used in daily talk.
The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to a little bit every day and try to listen to a wide range of different topics in English.
You can also download episodes onto your tablet or phone and listen offline and delete episodes after you’ve listened to them to create space on your tablet or phone, also Re-download episodes when you want to listen again.
I encourage you to download and try it because it is also free!.