How to Listen to English

Research shows that nine percent of communication time is devoted to writing 16 percent devoted to reading 30 percent to speaking and 45 percent to listening. We seem to spend most of our time listening but we don't spend most ofOur time learning listening according to the book by rivers and templey published by oxford. The way we deliver those words and structures with our mouths often bears no relation to the english that we become familiar with when it's written down.