The Listening Activities section provides you with the opportunity to listen to spoken Vietnamese in a variety of contexts and to practice and test your listening skills.  These listening exercises include multiple choice, true-false questions, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer responses for you to work on while listening to the audio files or after listening stage.  The written instruction in English explains the tasks and usually provides you with a general idea of the context and the speakers of the dialogues or narratives. Remember that you do not have to understand every word you hear in order to complete the exercises.

 

Before doing the exercises in the Listening Activities section, we recommend following these steps:

1. Read the instruction to understand the topic and context of the recording.Then, guess what vocabulary might be used and figure out how much of it you already learned and know.

2. Review and study carefully the vocabulary given after the instruction.

3. Listen to the recording once to figure out the gist, go over the information mentally, and absorb the vocabulary and structures used by the speaker (s).

4. Read the task questions and figure out what type of specific information you will need to get to answer them.

5. Now, listen to the recording again and concentrate on the information you need.

6. If you are doing listening exercises at home as homework, you can listen to the recording as many times as necessary.

 

The recording can also be used to improve your pronunciation.  After you are able to comprehend the gist of a recorded segment and complete task questions, listen to it again and pay attention to the speaker’s pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm.  Then, repeat after them and mimic them.

Have fun learning and practicing Vietnamese!

Lê Phạm Thúy-Kim, Senior Lecturer Emerita