Practicing Active Listening in Japanese

i think it's possible to be proficient in english and not sound fluent. This is because we can talk like a robot, without using natural expressions or tones. So the more active listening you do, the more you will notice collocations and phrases that native speakers use. And one method that i've been doinga recently, which i might have spoken about before, is called the transcription method. every morning i will play some audio. It might be from a podcaste or a ucividio. But the point is, i'm not reading sub titles. I'm only listening really, really carefully on a document on my computer. Usually to listen to 30 seconds, it might even take