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blackheart · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Seoul

One of my students asked me for any reccomendations on listening tapes while driving. I went to Bandis and Lundis and all there was were tapes with books. I will soon visit Kyobo.

Does anyone have any reccomendations of a tape or even where to look? Keep in mind we are looking for a tape w/o a book. He can understand if the sentence is slightly slowed down.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Sorry, I don't have any suggestions.

I have a question for other readers: Could you learn from a tape? I know I couldn't. I've never been able to pay attention all the way through a 3 minute song that I like, much less a learning tape. I'm just curious if anyone else has the same problem I do.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Depends what kind of tape. Some of them are terribly boring and you fall asleep after 30 seconds. I wish I could have persuaded my adult students to listen to the tapes for Interchange when I was teaching it, but they all said it was way too boring and none of them ever listened to them.

It is possible to learn without paying attention, but you have to listen over and over for it to sink into your subconcious. If you do it enough times, eventually you can start to understand more and more.......but it is boring as all get up.

There is a course called "Active Listening", but I haven't ever tried it, so I don't know if it would be much better. There are also some similar types of listening courses that come with a book, but just listening to the tapes can't really hurt.

I've had moderate success using Pimsleur tapes and found them to be very useful. I don't know if they have tapes for Koreans studying English though, and I do know they are very expensive.

Depending on the student's level, he/she may be better off to buy some good music cassettes of whatever type of music he/she prefers.
(in English of course)

or perhaps some short stories on tape....?

Anyway, I hope this helps.

kimchikowboy · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

I've used Garrison Keillor's News from Lake Wobegon tapes in classes before. He speaks slowly, and generally the stories are funny and interesting. I think you can download some of the monologues from the Prairie Home Companion site, though not sure.