Do you guys use LingQ when you watch TV shows or content mostly consist of conversation?
I have been using LingQ about a year. Most of the contents I used were informational youtube video or literatures (cus they are what attract me and I don’t like TV series or drame). Thanks to the learning, now I can understand those contents quite well but I’m still quite struggle with understanding everyday conversation and casual talk. I think this is because idiomatic phrases and contextual ommiting (I don’t know how to express this exactly).
If there’re someone have similar experience with me and solved it please leave some advices. Spending time with conversational contents is the best way?
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My English has improved much after I started to listen to a English podcast almost every day. The podcast is one hour or more, and it’s about current foreign affairs. A subject which interest me. And I don care if I don’t understand all words or idioms.
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Everyday language is the hardest to understand. People talk fast, they don’t enunciate as clearly, they elide words together, some syllables are swallowed or merged together, and they use idiomatic language. Documentaries and formal discussions about science, technology, history and literature are much easier to understand.
I don’t think there are any shortcuts. You have to regularly listen to informal speech, preferably with a reliable transcript, allowing your ear to adapt. One year ago French films were opaque to me. Now I am starting to catch a lot of the dialogue, but it still depends on the speaker, and I think it will take at least another year before I can understand most of the dialogue. I find with everyday speech that I have to stop trying to understand, and simply allow the language to flow into my brain. Sometimes the meaning of something only becomes apparent several seconds afterwards.
I recommend using qood quality noise cancelling headphones while listening to difficult content, and adjusting the EQ as required. I increase higher frequencies, and reduce the lower ones, consistent with natural age related changes in our hearing.
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I love podcasts too and they also are conversations but it’s somehow different from the conversations in dramas and movies. I want to fill In the understanding gap between those type of contents. 
You expressed what I’m struggling with exactly!
The words constructing an everyday conversation are all I know but I can’t understand the meaning of the sentence until I listen to that over and over again in various contexts.
Thank you for the tips.
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