Extensive and Intensive Listening

[Roman Abdul Satar]

I started my intensive exercise by going to the website easypersian.com, that has many lessons with audio. The lessons starts out easy, from alphabet to grammar and they give first the English version than the writing in Persian and after that the audio with pronunciation. I started from reading the Persian version of words like to speak and then listened to the pronunciation of that word. I continued doing this for two lessons. My extensive part of this exercise was to listen to the children stories on youtube, the video that I watched is great, it is 19 minutes long and consists of many stories. Also this video has subtitles in English, it helps for part that you can't understand. However, when i was listening I understood almost all of the parts of the stories. There were some words in Persian that I didn't recognize but overall it was clear. The children's stories are very easy to understand and it has many repetitions which helps to remember the word by hearing it again and again. Specially the first story is about a Kind Old Lady, who when it is raining lets various animals to her house. This video helps to learn the name of different animals like dog, rooster and donkey. This also can be helpful for people who are trying to learn on how to talk about the weather, because it repeats several times words such as rain, raining and cold. For the first time of listening I think this enough, but I will continue listening to this video that has various stories and follow the lessons on easyperian.com