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A photograph of motorway tunnel opening up right into a bright day, used to assist clarify the English language idiom of light at the end of the tunnel

​How To Learn English Speaking Through Listening

​If you think listening is not important to helping you speak English then you are wrong! Listening to native English audio system is one of the most necessary things you are able to do to enhance your English talking. If To learn more English are not making progress with the English-talking a part of your English language learning, then it's in all probability because you are not listening to enough English.

Listening to a language has everything to do with the ability to talk a language. If you wish to communicate English you will want to hearken to a lot of English being spoken.

Think about when you discovered to talk your individual native language, earlier than you could even read or write, as a really young youngster, you listened and also you learned to talk. You skilled your brain to recognise sounds and patterns of speech and related these with pictures and context till you could mimic what you were listening to and spoke simple words and then sentences in your native language.

This process is common, it’s how we all discovered to speak in our first language. So why would you suppose you'll be able to skip the listening half when learning a second language? You can’t! You have to hearken to the new language, many instances, to coach your brain to recognise the place phrases or sentences begin and stop in the new language. You must take heed to the new language to coach your mind to recognise how we pronounce phrases in the new language. You have to take heed to the brand new language being spoken to know regional accents and so many other refined differences that only listening can solve.

The excellent news is listening is easy to do, we do it all the time on our mobile phones or in our automobiles, so you can listen and be taught English throughout your day without having to go to a classroom. All you want is sweet quality English audio lessons, spoken at a tempo you'll be able to understand, an everyday and acquainted voice which is a local British English voice using a fascinating everyday English accent from London.

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​Transcript: Learn English Speaking Through Listening

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​The Light on the End of the Tunnel

​How about we do another of these podcasts on English idioms right now? English is filled with idioms and they can be very confusing for English language learners.  So what about if you heard the phrase ‘the light on the finish of the tunnel’? Would you understand what that meant?

​So as ordinary, let’s run by way of the vocabulary first. The word ‘mild’, L-I-G-H-T is a reasonably widespread phrase. And notice that spelling – I-G-H-T on the finish, pronounced ‘ite’ That’s quite a standard ending in English words. ‘Light’ has plenty of makes use of – you would possibly (and there’s another -IGHT ending word) - you might speak about daylight, or moonlight, firelight or daylight. So light is what helps you see – with out light, it will be dark and you wouldn’t be capable of see anything at all! And a tunnel, T-U-N-N-E-L? Well, a tunnel is usually underground, or a minimum of underneath something. Roads generally undergo tunnels, if the road runs beneath a hill.

Adults learning English as a second language undergo tunnels – the place there could be a road working excessive. A famous tunnel – and a very long one, is the tunnel which runs beneath the English channel, between England and France, from Folkstone on the English facet to Coquelles, near Calais in France. Other well-known tunnels on the planet, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which runs underneath the Alps in Switzerland. It took 17 years to construct and it runs for 57 kilometres –it’s the world’s longest tunnel, however only trains can undergo it, somewhat like the Channel Tunnel. Norway’s Laerdal Tunnel is the world longest highway tunnel at 24 kilometres, in order that’s a tunnel you possibly can drive through in your car. That sounds like an fascinating expertise, when you haven’t accomplished it.

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​Light on the End of the Tunnel - Literal Meaning

​Anyway, I assume you get the thought of tunnels maybe? So the sunshine at the end of the tunnel? Well, as you can think about, inside a tunnel, it’s dark, especially if it’s a protracted tunnel. There’s no day light.

A photograph of an extended underground tunnel with stone partitions and in the distance a shiny tunnel exit into the daylight beyond. Used to help clarify the English language idiom of light on the end of the tunnel.

​So as you approach the end of a protracted tunnel, you start to see a tiny level of light, which grows greater and greater as you drive towards it. Well, that's ‘the light at the finish of the tunnel’. So that’s what we name a literal that means, so you should use it like that.

​Light at theEnd of the Tunnel – Idiomatic Meaning

​But though we use ‘the light at the finish of the tunnel’ as a literal which means, when you hear that phrase, it’s more likely that it’s being used in an idiomatic means. So simply to refresh on idioms – they’re phrases which have another that means, a symbolic that means, a figurative which means, in addition to its literal that means. Often the literal meaning received’t make sense within the context, so that’s a method of recognising that the phrase is getting used as an idiom.

So, this one, ‘the light at the end of the tunnel’ is sort of an obvious one. You can most likely already guess the that means of this idiom. If you’ve been going via a bad experience, a period of time that is troublesome or that’s been hard work. If  you’ve been struggling with an issue, then you may say ‘Oh, now I’ve seen the sunshine at the end of the tunnel’, whenever you’re seeing some higher chance sooner or later, just arising. Or we’ve seen issues are about to get higher.

​Other Podcasts – Other Idioms!

​If you want our podcasts, and particularly if you like idioms then there are many extra podcasts on idioms. You can find all of our podcasts available on our website at adeptenglish.com – and they’re out there as a straightforward obtain. You can, onto your telephone, to be able to enhance your understanding and improve your spoken English as you ‘go about your business’ in the course of the day. 

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Some podcasts offer you English speaking apply, and you’ll be taught English conversation simply through listening.  But amongst those podcasts, I do cowl other idioms, like ‘Swings and Roundabouts’, or ‘to spill the beans’ or ‘to let the cat out of the bag’. I’ve lined ‘fruit idioms’ and ‘cooking idioms’ and plenty of extra. So have a look at our website and at our podcast download service – it’s actually good! You need to enhance English speaking?  We’ll show you the way. Learn English talking through listening to our podcasts.

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