Benny Lewis | Context: How to understand much more in another language than you think! 👂✅​ @irishpolyglot | Uploaded February 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
You may have trouble understanding replies from native speakers when you are a beginner in another language. See how to handle that with the trick discussed in this video!

I made this quickie video because I get the question quite often of "How do I understand native speakers when they speak to me and I'm a beginner". A mistake too many of us make is to keep studying for too long and constantly postpone that first day we truly try to use the language.

Here though, I talk about how I use context to guess the meaning through any word(s) that I *do* know in the sentence.

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