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I'm Learning Mandarin
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How to Develop a Strong Listening Ability in a Language
Having good listening ability is totally crucial if you want to be fluent in a language. People who have musical training or like vocal training tend to be able to pick it up much more quickly of course. There are two different processes there's one where your brain takes the input in and viewing it as like this is a sample of the same dialect that I speak then you're influenced by it very easily versus another process when your brain sees it as oh this is a different dialect and I'm translating into my dialect. When people learn mainly through reading or through text they're pronouncing it in their head to yourself so it's almost like you make up an alternate version of the spoken language based on the
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