English in the spoken form
It is harder to understand spoken English than written English. There are two reasons for this: Speech is continuous. There are no pauses between words, so when you don’t understand something, you don’t know if it’s one word, two words, or maybe part of a word. People sometimes talk fast, unclearly or in regional accents. It is also generally harder to learn vocabulary from audio content. If you hear a new word, it may be difficult to look it up in a dictionary because you will have to stop the recording (which is inconvenient and sometimes impossible) and guess the spelling (which may be hard). Even though it is difficult, listening to spoken English is a hugely important activity with many advantages over reading: It teaches you to understand speech. As mentioned before, people speak in different accents. Some of them talk fast or unclearly. It takes a lot of practice to get used to it. A lot of audio content (especially podcasts and radio talk shows), contains inform...