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Academic Listening

Academic Listening #7: Where to Practise, Free

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Academic Listening · Part 7 of 7

Four places to train your ear, all free, all verified.

Twenty minutes of listening three times a week will move you further than a three-hour session once a month. All four of these are free, and every link has been checked.

Full course · video + notesMIT OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Solid State ChemistryEvery lecture of the course used in Part 5, with lecture notes and problem sets. The notes let you check what you heard, which is what makes this better than watching alone. Video · 64 minutes“How to Speak” — Patrick Winston, MITA famous MIT lecture on how to give a talk. Watch it as a listener: he demonstrates, deliberately, the very signposts this series asks you to catch. Podcast · weekly, ~25 minThe Nature PodcastResearchers interviewed about the week’s papers, in many accents, with transcripts. Audio only, so it trains the ear without visual support — closer to a conference corridor than a lecture theatre. Graded practice · with answersBritish Council — Listening practiceShort recordings graded from A1 to C1 with comprehension questions and transcripts. Use the B2 and C1 sets when you want structure rather than authentic difficulty.
A routine that works. Monday: one MIT lecture opening, five minutes, counting signposts. Wednesday: one Nature Podcast segment, ten minutes, writing down only the numbers and hedges. Friday: one British Council C1 recording with the transcript, then shadow it aloud. Three short sessions beat one long one, every time.

You have finished the series. Try Part 5 again in a fortnight and compare your count — that number is the clearest evidence of progress you will get.

Series completeBack to the Academic Listening courseAll seven parts, and the other lessons in this course. ← Part 6: Five Traps to Be Careful With

Academic Listening series, Shimane University.

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