Secret #4: Don’t Listen! 

Ci sono tre coppie di verbi nella grammatica inglese che creano confusione in molti studenti. Sono ‘to hear and to listen’,‘to go/to come’e ‘to lend and to borrow’. Partiamo dal primo per capire come utilizzarlo correttamente.

In the last secret I said listen! listen! listen! Now I say don’t listen! What do I mean?!

Do you know the difference between the verbs listen and hear?

TO LISTEN is active. TO HEAR is passive.

Sometimes you can LISTEN too hard. Sometimes you can TRY too hard. Sometimes it is better only to HEAR.
Let the radio play.
Let the MP3 play.
But DON’T listen. Just HEAR.

Your subconscious will listen for you. And you will still learn. If you consciously listen and try to understand, you may block on one word and get frustrated. Don’t worry! Just HEAR! Believe me, you will still be learning.
The important thing is to let the radio or MP3 or television or DVD PLAY. Let it play. And you…you do nothing. Your brain will HEAR, your subconscious will LISTEN and you will LEARN!

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