Grammar

Hi,

It's very casual and colloquial spoken English.

Clive

"Take a look at" is widely acceptable, while "take a listen to" is still trying to earn respect. It still sounds strange to me, but it is as grammatically correct as the earlier expression and should be equally accepted, in my opinion.

We use it with all of the senses, treating the process as a noun:

Give this a smell. Take a whiff of this.

Can you give this poem a look? - a read? Take a look at this.

Have a feel of this fur coat!

Take a taste of this soup. Try a taste of this wine.

I just read the response to this question. Unfortunately, the instances provided hardly justify the propriety of "take a listen." Although this expression is has become increasingly popular by broadcasters, it would help to distinguish acceptability from grammaticality.

In "take a look", "take a walk", etc. "look" and "walk" are nouns; "listen" is not a noun, so "take a listen" - modeled on those other expressions - can be accepted only as a stretch..