One is to pretend to understand and get out of the conversation as fast as you can. Gabriella: They do, don't they? In real life, you've got two strategies. And people out there listening, I hope you don't do this – quite often the person just repeats what they said equally as fast and I'm still lost! Presenter: Right, but in real life I feel stupid always saying, 'Sorry, can you repeat that, please?', especially if I still don't understand even when they repeat it.
You usually have just one or maybe two opportunities to listen to the dialogue and then it's gone. Of course, exams are a different situation from real life because in an exam you can't ask for something to be repeated or explained. You know, in exams most people do pretty well in speaking compared with listening. Am I just really strange and bad at listening? Tell me, honestly, I can take it. But listening … woah … people speak so fast and it's like my brain just shuts down.
Most people say speaking is the most stressful part of learning a new language but, for me, with my B1 German, speaking isn't so bad.
Presenter: So, I have to confess today's topic is something I am really bad at: listening. Gabriella, hi and thanks for joining us today. Presenter: So, today's expert teacher is Gabriella, a university English teacher from Leeds.
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