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Here are TOEFL Listening Tips to get you started with
the Listening section!
TOEFL Listening Tips :
1.
Listen to Spoken English Regularly
The number one TOEFL Listening tip is, unsurprisingly, to
listen to English regularly. The more you hear English, the better your
listening skills will become and the easier you’ll find the Listening section.
You want to listen to spoken English, so music sung in English won’t be as
useful since English sounds different when it’s sung compared to when it’s
spoken.
Talk
radio, news stations, movies, tv shows, and podcasts are all great options (as
long as they’re in English, obviously). Try to listen to some English with
background noise, such as an interview conducted outside or in front of a large
crowd. TOEFL Listening recordings purposely include background noises, so
you’ll want to be used to that.
2.
Listen to Different English Accents
It will also help you down the line if you practice listening
to different accents while you’re studying. The TOEFL Listening test will
include at least one native-speaker English accent outside of North American
accents. This is done to help prepare you for the variety of English accents
you’ll likely come across in the real world. These accents will come from the
U.K., Australia, or New Zealand.
Even native English speakers can struggle to understand
different English accents, so be sure to get some exposure to different accents
before exam day. Try listening to news clips or radio stations from these
countries if you’re wondering how you can hear more accents.
3.
Take Complete Practice TOEFL Listening Tests
Part of what makes TOEFL Listening tricky is that you
spend the section going back and forth between listening to recordings and
answering questions on them. After three or four recordings, you may get tired
and your attention may start to lag. This can really hurt your score if you
miss important information in the audio recording, so you want to take steps to
avoid this, and one of the best ways to do that is to take complete practice
Listening sections.
A full Listening section is four lectures and two
conversations. Set aside time to take this section all at once, with no breaks
and no distractions, just like on the real TOEFL. Doing this will help you
become familiar with the length and pacing of the Listening section before test
day.
4.
Get in the Habit of Taking Notes
Even if you have great English skills and usually
remember the things you hear in English, you should still takes notes during
the Listening section. Each of the recordings is several minutes long and
contains a lot of information. If you don’t take notes, it can be easy to
forget some of points made and therefore miss questions on the test. Read the
next section for tips on how to take great notes.
