When you listen to the podcast, listen to one episode many times. While you are walking with your dog, while you are cooking, while you are jogging, while you are about to sleep, etc. Once you understand pretty much what they are saying, listen to the sentence once, and stop the podcast, and say that sentence as you exactly heard. Continue practicing one sentence by one until the end of the episode. Once you are getting good at it repeating one by one, you listen to the episode again, but not stopping, and repeat what they are saying. (yes, while you are listening to the episode, your mouth is saying exactly what you hear...) It is difficult, but that will increase your fluency, because the native speakers can do this tedious work most of the times. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/497225615118121204/ |