How to Listen to Audio Books in Foreign Languages for Polyliteracy

Listening to audio books in a foreign language is a wonderful reward to reach as you develop advanced abilities in the language, but there are more, and less, efficient ways of listening. If you move up to listening to extended narratives from listening to didactic materials and shorter podcast type audio, you are probably not getting all that you could from either the content of the book or the linguistic exercise. After comparing and contrasting extensive reading and extensive listening, I discuss how a few common-sense attention-focusing and note-taking habits can help you get much more from listening to audio books. Finally, I discuss various ways of cycling through multiple languages to balance a maintenance program for polyliteracy.

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