• spiderman@ani.social
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    7 months ago

    I thought it was my ESL comphrension issue but it seems like even natives feel the same.

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      7 months ago

      I would recommend using face to face conversations to judge your English comprehension.

      I am a native speaker with perfect hearing and I still have to use subtitles with any movie made in the past ten years.

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        7 months ago

        I actually try to speak with natives through discord but I always feel like they talk way faster than the character in movies and I can’t keep up.

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          7 months ago

          Unfortunately (at least in the U.S.A.) speaking quickly is a bad habit that is typical among young people. In schools we teach students to slow down when giving a presentation or speaking formally.

          You may find it more useful to find YouTube videos where people are presenting information on a topic. These “video essays” are typically done in a more formal and understandable fashion.