rrh wrote:


"ting" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am a Chinese boy,I find it hard to learn English,especiall audition,
I want to know:do you english-speaking can hear every word somebody
speaks with whom you talk?thank you for helping me.


You're not in the right newsgroup here but...

No - often you miss individual words but get the general sense. Perhaps
related to the large number of sounds in English and the indistinct nature
of many of them. Some words are dispensable anyway (some articles, some
plurals). In some other languages you can normally hear all the sounds and
syllables, even if you don't understand all the words (eg German,
Japanese). Others like English can be difficult to hear (French and -
others tell me - Spanish). Don't get me started on the difficulty of
hearing the different tones in Chinese if you are a native speaker of a
non-tonal language!

And sometimes you hear every word and it still could mean two different
things!

My wife is Chinese (mandarin speaker) and what little I know of Chinese,
your word and sentence structure is very different from English.

If you want to hear good English for practise, try the BBC website
(www.bbc.co.uk) - many radio and TV programs are available via RealMedia
over the Internet (I assume you are not in the UK right now?).

Cheers

Tim