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[saltire]

hello,everybody.
I am a student from Taiwan.
I want to improve my abilities about listening.
Therefore I do a lot of exercise about listening.
After several practice, I found some problems:
1. I usually can't hear the first two or three words clearly,
so I may not know what the subject of the sentence.
2.some words together sound like a word.
When I see these words, I may know what they mean,
but when sounding them, I can't know what they are.

[Lorikeet]

If you are interested in American English, you can look, at something I did a couple of years ago on that topic. Unfortunately, it still remains unfinished, but there is enough there to give you some ideas. http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/activity/listening/listeningexp.html