Focused listening exercises
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From Yabla, with their huge selection of authentic videos, comes a terrific new daily study feature called Fluency Club.
Every day, you’re offered a set of exercises centered around a short video clip (10-15 seconds). There are two clips per day: Beg-intermediate and Int-Advanced, so you can do either or both.
You start by listening to the clip, for which you have all the same options (subtitles, translation, speed) as regular Yabla videos. Grow your vocabulary by clicking on words to add them to your personal flash card list.
Next, you do a series of exercises:
1) Scribe – type what you hear (learn more).
2) Speak – listen to the clip and repeat what you hear.
3) Recall – using the English translation as a guide, type the French you heard.
You can repeat the first three exercises until you get a perfect score (3 stars).
Review – listen to the clip 5 times:
- no help
- no help
- with subtitles
- with literal translation
- with real translation
By the end, you’ve probably memorized the clip and learned some new vocabulary.
The whole series takes about 15 minutes, so it’s very easy to make this part of your daily study routine. And if you miss a day or want more, previous days’ clips are just a click away.
There’s also a strategic review, which brings back older clips for you to review, a progress dashboard showing your vocabulary growth over time, and a community board for discussing with other learners.
Don’t have a Yabla account yet? Try Fluency Club for free for 15 days.
If you are subscribed to Yabla, Fluency Club is part of your subscription and is already available in the navigation bar at the top of the screen.
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