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PODCAST WRITING

Have you heard about the active listening strategy in which you need to write one podcast word by word. I do believe that you thought this is a magical strategy and after doing so multiple times your listening will just skyrocket. Being the person who tried myself, I don't think this technique can help much for two reasons:

1.It is very very very boring and as a result most people won't do it having done just once, so progress isn't gonna come

2. You will try to write every single word and not listen to the podcast itself, this means you will not understand what the main topic is, what they are describing etc.

I myself got extremely bored when I did it.
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But, there is good news

The very news is that there is another alternative to podcast writing. As the name suggests it is listening actively. Imo it means writing down some important points, good chunk of language and things you liked. This way you will be more alert and most importantly understand what you are listening rather than being a writing machine!

P.s. if you improved your listening skills by this method then great. I am against if you benefit!

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