6. Listening to educational CDs in a car.

                 Very frequently I hear from students of English a question about listening to educative CDs in a car.

There are some pros and cons in this method of learning and I would like to share them with you.

                 First, if you are able to focus on what you hear, it works well: you hear the message and the more often you hear the vocabulary, the higher probability of remembering it and ultimately using in your speech. 

The message, itself, (as any message), the more often you hear it, the less attention you pay to it. 

What I see as a huge problem is that after 3-4 minutes, the driver as any listener, loses the track of the information heard and comes back to her current problem.

                 As any training system, listening requires a high level of self -discipline and high level of concentration.

I have told you several times already about developing of listening skills and repeat it again: it gets effective if only listening is done correctly.  

                So, listen to the English CDs in a car or not?

Try it and make your own decision.

Practicing listening skills is a serous process and should be done under control of a language trainer.

Till next message.

George