Mature learner

[English-test.net]

Hi Alan, hi All!
>
> Thanks for your great work.
>
> As a mature learner I have to use every possibility to practice
> English a bit. So I discovered www.english-test.net.
>
> But there is another difficulty for my mature ears, listen to native
> speakers. On the occasion of a short trip to Bournemouth I learned the
> problem is not to be understood, it is just the other way around! For
> me it was very difficult to understand the different slangs.
> Especially women speak with an intonation that doesn't fit to my
> German hearing.
>
> So I cruised the internet for listening comprehension exercises and
> found www.esl-lab.com eventually. This site could be a perfect
> completion to your site, because it is vocal.
>
> Shouldn't you add a link to this or to a similar site?
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Wilfried Paje

[Alfwm]

This is a very good free english course, it's a very good service for the whole world, I just have signed, and many people are doing so. I hope invite some of my friends to sign it.
Even though I can't find where are the explanations of the grammar tests. There is a test but I don't have found where it's explained
Alf.

[Stew.t.]

hi

Maybe try this site for listening as well;

http://web.ku.edu/idea/

A collection of dialects from around the world.

And don´t worry so much about listening comprehension, it comes with time. It took me awhile to get used to the Saxon dialect in German.

It is an issue of exposure and familiarity.
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