Advanced stage: learning to understand rapid idiomatic everyday dialogues

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This was discussed a little on another recent thread:

Barely progressing with listening comprehension

A few hundred hours of listening simply isn’t enough. I have ~800 listening hours in Italian and I still have challenges, especially in certain situations. You simply have to do more listening, as others have mentioned. Every 100 hours of listening you add, is a step up in your listening comprehension. Probably the key principle to improving your listening comprehension (and the language as a whole) as an intermediate/advanced is to follow the difficulty. If something is hard for you, this is …

With regard to learning common idiomatic phrases, try putting the podcasts through LingQ and lingQing the phrases. Another source are reality shows. But you just want improvised, informal content with multiple native speakers talking over top of each other.

It just takes time. To being able to understand hard accents and low-quality audio, you just need to keep practising with it. Go for external listening or extensive reading while listening. I.e. go for quantity. You just have to get used to the sounds.