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Here are some sentences to listen to. I hope you'll like what you hear.
The verbs to listen and to hear can cause confusion. So here's a quick lesson, a mini-lesson, with examples of each. We'll start with the verb to listen.

Part One: the verb to listen

1 I will listen more carefully next time. I'll listen more carefully next time.
2 Please listen to me. It's important.
3 I'd rather listen to Bach than Mozart.
4 The football team listened to their coach.
5 He never listens to instructions.
6 He never listens to his father.
7 I'll listen to your podcast tonight.

Part Two:  the verb to hear

1 Did you hear me? I said it's time to go.
2 I've never heard of him.
3 I hear a lot of rumors but I don't believe them.
4 Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds.
5 I heard that band play some new songs on the radio.


Here are all the sentences repeated one more time. You can:
a) just listen to them

b) listen to them and repeat right over my voice

c) you can use them as a dictation by listening, stopping the playback, and then trying to write the sentences down correctly from memory before you check them against the transcript to see how well you did.

d) or you can take one sentence, listen to it two or three hundred times, and then see if you can repeat it and imitate me perfectly. Your goal is to sound like an American when you speak so that the pronunciation, the intonation, the stress, the syllable length--everything sounds like me. (Although there's a good chance you'll sound better than me because you'll have a young and beautiful voice and not my old scratchy one.)

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