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  Tanya August 7, 2015 19:41

  OK, I will add you as soon as we get home (We are in Europe and packing our stuff now). I like people from Pakistan and Iran and all othe r countries! We just have to get home afrer a month long trip, OK?
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  Muhammad Ramiz August 7, 2015 18:28

  hi how are you ,,, farhan.khan1944 my skype ,, plaase add me ,, i m new here
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  Shaik badini August 4, 2015 18:26

  `That is great to see this group i want that idiom book you have preferred above.

  this is my Email; shaikbadiniwww@gmail.com
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  Latif August 2, 2015 13:09

  verrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyg ggooood dear tanya.thank you verrrrryyyyyyy much .
  goood teacher motivats students. i try all tips you have advised.as iranian people say(chashm=eay).it means i certainly do them. i asked you also about talking to you on skype , is that possible?
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  Tanya August 2, 2015 12:49

  Dear Cadet! I will gladly talk to you, but some later
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  cadet August 2, 2015 12:26

  hi there,

  tanya do you have some free time to take a session with me ??
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  Tanya August 2, 2015 12:24

  Dear Latif! I have already told  here how to improve listening skills quickly(see the very top of this page, paragraph 5). You can find a lot of other podcasts in the internet. As to songs, the idea is the same. Find a script, read and translate it and then listen to a song as many times as you need to hear each word clearly, like your native language. I tell you, it works! I taught many people this simple techniques , in particular in EC, and they all succeeded. As to movies, I don't really know what to recommend. Actors speak different dialects with different accents, there is a lot of slang, even dirty slang, not to say about idioms and some other "just American" expressions, replies, proverbs, qoutations. I remember, when I just came to the USA about 25 years ago I didn't "hear" TV at all although my English was already very very good that time and I had no problems communicating with people in everyday life. So, I decided not to force myself. Television was on all day long but I didn't pay attention to it and 2-3 weeks later I suddenly caught myself at hearing every word. I remember, I asked myself:"Wow! Are they speaking my native language?" But when I listened to it attentively, I realized it was English. Since then, I began understanding everything on TV. However, I'd like to tell you that even now I sometimes ask my husband about this or that expression and, being a native speaker, he sometimes doubts. Anyway, I think it is a good idea to watch movies with subtitles and to read them only when you don't understand. It is also a good idea to write down such expressions to look them up in a dictionary or ask about their meanings later. To sum it up somehow, understanding movies is not the main goal in learning English. If you understand native English speakers in everyday life, it is already very good. The rest comes with practice.
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  Latif August 1, 2015 11:55

  hi
  how can we improve our listening skil?
  hi dear tanya?my problem is listening skill. specially music and film .how can i improve it?i think i have listen it enough.( forgive me please if there are some speling mistakes)
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  Tanya August 1, 2015 10:22

  Dear Latif! I can't find your comment about your listening problems. Will you give me a link, please?
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  Latif August 1, 2015 9:00

  thats kind of you.
  i asked about my problem in listening in Discution part. thank you in advance