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Listening practice is the only cure. I had trouble understanding Australian English the first few days I was in Cairns.

How did you practise your listening? I found it hard to me .

There are many, many, many videos on YouTube. Just follow your interests or surf freely.

lichy, that's why I suggested you to watch movies ( cinema, youtube, tv series etc. ). You must be understanding me now. I have been doing this for a year. maybe I can't speak fluently ( because I haven't found anybody to do voice chat ) but I improved my listening a lot. You should try this too. good luck!

Thank you again. I'll try it, but sometimes I found the sounds ill disturb other people's attention, and when I wore earphones,I'll have earache.
But I think I will overcome it.
Does the material you watch has captions ? A translated captions?

My teacher tell me dictation can help us improve our listenning skill, and learning English starts from listenning comprehension.

According to the video and speaker, I prefer either english subtitiled english videos or no caption videos. If I don't understand well, I watch the video again ( youtube videos are not long, you can watch them twice ). and If I hear a word I don't know, I use google voice translator ( make sure you are using google chrome, other browsers does not support this feature ). this way google gives me th