7 Ridiculously Simple Tips to Improve Your Listening Comprehension in Record Time
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Today you’ll find out why watching TV and listening to music in your target language when you’re a beginner is not gonna cut it.
And I will explain why listening to comprehensible input is crucial right from the start.
Also, it’s very important to keep your motivation high by exposing yourself to audio materials that you enjoy.
Plus, don’t forget to focus on the big picture. Otherwise, you’ll miss the forest for the trees.
What you want to aim for is to get the meaning of what you’re listening to.
Then, I’ll talk about the importance of taking notes, varying your listening routine to avoid burnout and above all how to be patient.
As they say “nothing worth having comes easy.”
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1. 1:14 Choose comprehensible input
2. 2:14 Listen to what you like
3. 2:55 Focus on the Big Picture
4. 3:40 Listen at different speeds
5. 4:48 Vary your listening routine
6. 5:40 Be patient
7. 7:38 Be an active listener
I do all of those, still level A2 Spanish (maybe B1) after 10 months. But I spend maybe 10-20 minutes on average per day doing this, which is the problem. I read somewhere that it takes anywhere between 240-1600 hours to learn a language.
Also some languages are measurablly easier than others. I cannot imagine being able to write in Chinese, or Pashto.
@@bluceree7312 I can speak with you Spanish if you want to, I'm a native speaker of that language
Thank you.
thanks for the 9 min
Bro you are an Ehrenmann!♥️
Greetings from Germany
Here's my favorite tip: listen to your target language every day ESPECIALLY if you are having one of those bad days when you feel like you're no good at languages and listening is the last thing you want to do. If you let your emotions dictate your learning, then your progress will slow down. Listen to your TL every day for 10 minutes even when you don't feel like it. There's no need to understand everything -- just pay attention and enjoy what you can understand. :)
I struggle with listening comprehension in general, even in my native language English. I used to be stressed whenever I listened to something in French because I always felt like I should understand everything. Now I've gotten in the habit of watching French videos and listening to French podcasts every day while I'm doing chores. I've noticed that I'm much more relaxed, I'm having more fun, and my listening comprehension has improved!
Emotion. This is what I always argue as the motivation for learning. For example, I worship music and when I have the blues, I put on Dalida, Garou and Charles Avaznour and belt my heart out to the lyrics. 😭
Z Jones loved your suggestion! Merci beaucoup 😊!
Hi Z Jones ! My mother tongue is French, I face the same fears and the same problems in my learning of English. I’ve been focusing for 9 months to improve my skills and I like to think that I’m getting better. Why don’t we can do magic and exchange or skills in our mother tongue :) ! By the way, feel free to answer me, I’m teacher and out of work very soon for 8 weeks, if you want to practice your French prononciation etc in exchange to practice my English prononciation, just let me know ! Have a good one ! Steve Rodrigue
How do you struggle with listening comprehension in English if it is your native language???
I always feel understanding in terms of listening is naturally a harder thing. Think of it this way someone ever described directions to you, or you need to make something but you don't have a grocery list you forget something. Also listening is not active like reading where you read every word. Listening is picking up on the idea (very passive).... I like writing down phrases/expressions to get bulk vs focusing on.singular words and enunciation. Because saying a sentence you or I may say every word properly. When you hear a non native speaker speak they can say a word wrong but over time you understand that's how they say it(just don't get to many words wrong) I had a friend say pashio....not patio...I don't know why. Never corrected him either (haha some friend).
On the other hand especially in.English words can be said differently by different people and some people simply can be harder to understand. People evaluate themselves to hard on the idea that I must understand all. With Spanish I can understand some people. Older people very well, young kids very little.
The biggest struggle for me is understanding dialogue in movies and television dramas and comedies. When I listen to podcasts, radio news, and documentaries, I understand at least 70% and often 90%. When I talk to someone one on one, I almost always understand everything. When I watch a movie or a television show I struggle to understand even 50%. I've watched CZcams videos on physics and understood 90% and then struggled to make any sense of a comedy. My strategy has been to watch the show first with subtitles (in French, my target language) once or twice and then once or twice without subtitles. The problem with my strategy is that often the subtitles don't match the dialogue. The subtitles are frequently shortened and simplified. Second, I find myself getting bored after watching the same thing 2 or 3 times, which makes it hard to focus.
One more thing you had to do was to write your rich in content comment in french.
anderson alejandro alba cubillos Je peux écrire en français mais la vidéo est en anglais, et donc j’ai écrit en anglais.
@@thedavidguy01 Well this is what I wanted from you, now you're using french since it's your target language... by the by, I'm attempting to learn french as well and I could understand what you wrote without using translate google LOL... I believe you shouldn't worry about understanding movies or that kind of listening, for those actors are actually not speking as they noramlly do, so don't worry bout comprehending someone faking his way of speaking. I'm pretty sure that the same actors and actresses when speaking in an interview are more intelligible.
Same issue is happening to me with English, I watch a ton of videos, everyday and I understand almost 100%. When I talk to a native speaker I'm very comfortable and I understand everything. But when it comes to movies or tv series it's still difficult to understand and i struggle alot. I don't know why !!
I'm almost a native speaker in French, I've been speaking French my whole life. I can tell you that they use a lot of dialect in movies, sometimes you have to understand about their culture in order to get the joke.
For a start I think it's important to accept these difficulties as something absolutely natural. The worst enemy of comprehension is mental stress. This can lead to a complete blockade so that you finally end up not understanding the simplest ideas. Very unfortunate when this happens in a listening exam.
Patience is super important. Your brain will block out information, if you are frustrated that you cannot understand everything. I watch tv in my target language with subtitles. This is one of the ways I improved my listening comprehension. Along with memorizing a number of songs that I love after reading their translations. Thanks for the advice Luca. You have helped me a lot on my language journey in the past 5 years. Greetings from California. - Nathan
Another Nathan from California....suh dude 🤙 learning german
No expectations no frustrations 😊👌
Was für ein Zufall! Ich lerne auch Deutsch! haha @@johnredcorn433
Movies and TV series are a challenge for me. I've tried to watch one episode at least per day because I want to improve my listening skills in these formats. I don't really understand why is so hard to understand them. I keep watching and I hope I get it soon
Subtitles in the target language or in English?
My first tongue is Spanish, thanks to my perseverance nowadays I have achieved my goal of understanding natural and real English spoken, without living in any English speaking country before. What have I done?
Choose engaging content following my likes, repeat the process, and to expose it eagerly.
If I wanted to know about the news I put on CNN, if I wanted to know about a specific topic I bought a book in English, I just used Spanish as less as possible, through this way I could achieve my goal.
Leave it if I can help somebody sharing my language learning experience.
Another activity that I've done is to focus on just one accent firstly and when I have developed a "language core" with that accent, I did pass to listen to other English accents as I did when I learned Spanish in my first life years as a kid, then we can understand whatever language accent but it is important to relate one after all.
Thanks, guys, and thanks Luca, I follow your advice, keep doing those approachable videos for all the language community, you have inspired us to learn how to work other worlds through languages.
Excelente
It's actually very fun to listen to Luca's tips. Even though Luca's language activities were what got me started around 10 years ago, I still find listening to Luca very interesting and it keeps me on track throughout my language adventures! Thank you Luca for such nice content you keep uploading after so many years!
I'm loving the new content you're uploading, keep it up and great tips
Thank you so much for your excellent tips, Luca. I was becoming very frustrated and about to give up; but I took your advice and began watching CZcams clips that I like with closed caption turned on, and also adjusting the speed so it's slow enough for me to hear the words. This has opened up what I thought was a world closed to me -- so many thanks!! I am learning to be patient with myself, and also learning that active listening takes a lot of practice.
¡Excelente Luca! Como todo lo que publicás. Gracias por compartir tu experiencia. Soy profe de español y doy desde hace años tus mismos consejos y funcionan muy bien.
So much enlightenment crammed in one video. Thank you so much Luca
Luca, your advices are very important to me!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you Luca, just yesterday I was feeling down about my comprehension (Spanish) I will incorporate this from now on
Thank you so much for making these videos and sharing your knowledge they have helped me a bunch ;) Its so cool that people like you contribute to breaking language varies and to make the world a better place, a more conected world. Blessings 🙏❤️
First I’ve seen your channel but I love this video! Very professionally done! Clear content and I will apply to my language learning experience!
一直以來都在關注你的影片，謝謝你分享這麽多學語言的方法與態度❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Luca for the tips!
The biggest struggle for me with listening comprehension is that even if you know words and phrases and know a lot about the language, I can read most text in Spanish, but when you hear native speakers talking it is a whole different animal, words seem to blur together and it becomes so difficult to apply the hard earned studying you do
Danke vielmals Herr Lucas!!!
Ich lerne seit zwei Wochen deutsch und ich möchte es wie Ihnen sprechen.
BTW I already speak French, English and Spanish. and I also can understand Portuguese and Italian at a basic level.
Thanks a million for these awesome tips!!!
Tschüss!!!!
Luca, thanks for the great tips!
Very interesting,thanks for your tips Luca!!!
I always enjoy your videos Luca. They're always succinct and on point. Ngā mihi nui ki a koe, nā Aotearoa. Greetings to you from New Zealand.
Your tips are simply great and very useful. Thank you for your helpful videos. 😊
This video helps me a lot. I will take this tips, thanks!
La edición de los vídeos a mi juicio está siendo excelente. Me gusta la impronta que le estas dando. Ni qué decir de consejos y "dicas", muy buenas. Gran trabajo, sí señor.
Gracias, Luca.
Das consejos muy buenos y muy prácticos.
Merci encore une fois, Mr. Lampariello.
Luca you're incredibly intelligent to be so young to have achieved so much knowledge on what languages concerned, &you're so right exposure is the most important key to listen & comprehend a language my grandaghter is 7 years old & she loves to listen to your videos when you are having conversations to Steve Kauffman ,or Richard Sittcom i can't thank you enough for your vast knowledge & experience &tips to learn a foreign language i expose her &encouraged her to speak ,read & written since she was 6 first to italian & french now she wants to learn ,but thats one language ionly know basic words like gutten tag, wie geth is innen ,iat geth mi a gut was ist loss? Sprachen sie franzosisch? & things like that igot her fist cell phone & got her duolingo in german bought her some childrens books also than you for the time you're taking to make these priceless & woderful videos for every person that loves &have a passio for languages God bless you always!!!
the hardest part are actually accents of the speaker and sometimes their speed. for example sometimes when i learn german,there are some people with whom i understand almost everything,while others almost nothing even tho its the same thing with no dialect influences
Luca your English really is 99.999% perfect. Had I not known you're not an American (nor from any of the other English speaking countries) and were listening to you from scratch, I really would say you were an English (actually an American) native. Not as a criticism but to help you become perfect, at about 4:32 in this video you said the word "slowlier" when you should have said "slower". That was the only "give away" that English is not your native language. I will subscribe to your channel and pick up on your tips where I can. I think that the comment about not trying to listen to anything where you don't know 75% or more of the vocabulary is a good one. In fact there have been more than a good few tips in the videos which I've seen of yours. Good advice. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us mortals.
I love being able to control the speed of the audio on youtube and some podcasts!
Thank you, Luca. Subscribed. Even though I don't watch all your videos, each one of the ones I have watched has great content and helps me continue on with Mandarin. Sometimes I feel like I plateau, but to be ok with that because it takes time. Thank you for reminding me that learning is not linear, but always progressive, and this is applied on all aspects in life.
subscribed aswell! Lovely content am I right?!
Thanks for your sharing! It helps me a lot! Your way of learning always works! Have a nice day!
Thanks Sophie! =)
Gracias Luca, tu consejos son muy bien!
awesome tips, thank you so much
Your are genius, somOne sometimes wants to go quick in the process but you're right,It is with time step by step . Great video,Thank you for your tips ,Have a great year
It was definitely a game changer when I found out you can change the speed of youtube videos
Thanks for very useful and effective tips
Thanks Luca ! 👏👏
Thank you so much Luca un grande abbraccio
Ce sont bon conseils, Luca, comme d'habitude. Je vais écouter ce vidéo et écrire quelque chose immédiatement. Merci.
Very inspiring Luca!
I had trouble with listening to the language I was learning,only knowing how to automatically translate the words in front of me but not the voice these tips help and I will use them tysm!
This reminds me of my cajun accordion learning which is played by ear. There really isn't sheet music. I couldn't get better but when the slow down software became available it was so much easier to learn. Now Im learning Spanish and just discovered the kindle audiobooks that you can slow down.
This is a great video about listening comprehension tips. I really liked it. Thank you so much!
You are most welcome Ms.Gaby! =)
Great infos thanks !!
great advises thanks so much
I like the hour glass on the table, very vanitas-looking.
That hour glass is cool isn't it? :-D
Amazing video!
Thank you so much!!!
Te admiro bastante por eso he decidido tomar mi 3er lenguaje
Buenos consejos estos paciencia ante todo
In my opinion, my biggest struggle to improve my listening comprehension is note some small reports about what I was listening, I've started to do this today, I dont know why, but this is the first day that I do this and you've said to us to do this hahahaha, other thing that I also do is write some phrases in a specific context in the ANKI and in this way learning how to pronounce, listen and write the words.
Thanks for your video Luca, now you have a new subscriber on your channel, I'll see more videos!!!
Muy buenos consejos llenos de sentido común aunque a veces nos olvidemos de aplicarlo. Me parece especialmente importante que el contenido de lo que escuchemos sea de nuestro interés. ¡Y sobre todo paciencia, no hay que desesperar!
I use the Bible.
I listen to something several times, but not in a rush, I translate it and end on it one day then I come back to the video two or three times, depending on a difficulty of it )
It helps to learn words and memorize them for longer time
Me gustaron tus consejos, gracias por compartir.
I've been listening/watching Italian fairy tales that were made for kids. I love it so I'm actually learning a lot from them.
Luca sei il top, gran bei consigli.
I’m a beginner learning French, & I truly want to improve. I know very little, but desire to get better. This video is very helpful!
courage, vous pouvez le faire.
شكرا جزيلا على هذا الفيديو ، لوكا لامبارييلو! أنا أدرس داريجا في الكلية (في جبل طارق) ، وهذه طريقة ممتعة لتحسين تعلمي للغة. المزيد من فضلك. استمروا في العمل الجيد. السلام عليكم. صلاح الدين.
My biggest obstacle has been finding comprehensible Russian content for beginners that is also enjoyable. I have found some, but obviously you consume it all eventually and then need more! Good news is, I eventually find some good stuff, and I am improving so that means my options are growing little by little :)
Powerful!👍🏼
Gracias Luca.
Eres el puto amo, en serio.
Good video Luca!
It’s forcing or making me listen to something I completely don’t understand and feel like how will I ever learn this, and how I have gotten over it is starting really simple and with something fun, I am a kid at heart so for me that is kids cartoons like curious George or Clifford the big red dog or even noddy, I find even if I don’t understand almost any words, it helps me because it gives me context and usually the words and grammar they use are pretty simple and I find by the end I start hearing words being repeated and they start to become ingrained in my brain and actually see the image and picture of the word or action and not just a translation from English to the language, and I get to have fun, this or also I find music in the language with music that has a good beat and I just enjoy listening to over and over and start to sing little by little. Basically have fun with the language😊😄✌️
Thanks for the great video and useful tips, cheers and hope you have an awesome day😊💚🌅🙏✌️
You are the best
With Spanish, I feel as though native speakers talk VERY fast and that they combine words together so it's difficult to understand certain phrases at times. This is fixed by subtitles, but it's not like I'm going to have subtitles in real life.
I'll keep at it. Thanks for the tips. Gracias por el video.
Daisy, feel free to talk to natives in Spanish. Check my profile and videos
Native speakers in any language will always speak very fast. Foreigners who speak my native language Danish dont understand me either if I speak Danish at my normal speed.
Just wanted to explain the reason for that. The thing is in Spanish is that their syllables are equally in length, so there is no stress on syllables and this means every sound feels like repeating cross fire
@@emilstorgaard9642 I intend to learn Danish eventually.
@@azuregriffin1116
I'm glad to hear! Just go for it :). It really isn't as hard as people say. Grammar is quite similar to English with very few conjugations, and fixed word structure and syntax.
And dont be deterred, because I said foreigners have a hard time understanding me. I have a tendency to mumble and on top of that I just speak fast lol. Its easier to understand most Danes than it is to understand me haha
I wish we would encounter Japan, Fukuoka next year.
Gracias por todos.
Korea , Simon.
Luca we need a book from you with all this knowledge.
It is on the to-do list ;-)
And it all falls apart when you realize nobody's creating good comprehensible input.
Depends on the language. I found a lot of good ones for french and spanish. A little for norwegian. Nothing particularly good for german yet, but that's cause I have a hard time with some of the vocabulary.
Mutt Fitness have you tried to watch Easy German on CZcams. They talk slower and have subtitles in German and English to check if you're hearing it correctly.
@@hannahdobler3521 I like it but my vocabulary is not quite good enough. Unlike french I find it near impossible to guess the meaning of new words.
@@MuttFitness where is comprehensible Spanish input?
@@fienevandijk7224 check out the channel "spanish playground" here on youtube.
Gracias!
Really informative video, thank you so much for sharing those tips.
If can I ask you, what are you thoughts about learning two languages at the same time ?
Thank you do much
Thanks for the tips, I will definitely try the last tip! I would love if you also have tips for people with ADHD because even in my native language it is difficult for me to concentrate on listening to something (I manage to concentrate more on reading)
For me the hardest part is to understand tv series and movies. I mean I don't know if the problem is to understand or hear what people say. Sometimes some actors or actresses speak as they were whispering and this becomes impossible to hear and understand. I put the subtitles and listen to and read many times and continue not understand them. Anyway, this is the most difficult part in my opinion
obrigada ,mestre
That's it. I'm subscribing
Thank you for the advice, Luca! I am not answering your question here, but just a suggestion: I think it would be better if you purchase these little mics, the sound was a little bit like "far" lol
Very good, thank you. The biggest problem I have listening to French is that the version that is spoken isn’t the version that is written. I don’t mean that it’s not a phonetic language or the presence of liaisons. I mean that native French speakers swallow vowels, cut words and clip phrases in a way that’s not represented by the written version of the same passage. Sometimes, I have trouble following along even when I have a transcript. The verbal rendition is abbreviated and comes at me faster than I think it’s going to.
I'm learning French, and one thing I do is to watch videos of French songs with English subtitles, or find lyrics in French and English side by side, and try to keep up. I also like to cook, so I watch French cooking videos on .75 speed.
love the reflection in the lamp xD
The struggle of language comprehension for me was finding interesting content in this set language. Maybe I went about looking for content the wrong way back then,I cant remember,but I just could not find anything that really captivates me that I would like to listen to,so I just had to listen to whatever I could find. Things that helped me most to start understanding the language a lot better were
1) constant exposure to the language,I was listening to it every day,on my way to work,on my break at work,when I was walking home,when I trained at the gym,when I come home.
2)Reading books. (Immense help!)
Im a bit ashamed to admit but until 24 I really didnt read anything at all,except for something way back at school,but never by my own will. Only when I got interested in learning a language I was looking for different methods of going about it and I heard many suggestions "to read" as a good way of improving. And I really got in to it,begining with set books that are for language learners spesificaly. And aftewards with just proper books that are simply translated to my set language,like "The Alchemist". Now im reading the Hobbit.
To my understanding,people who are avid book readers - they have a great advantage in learning languages :)
So I would greatly suggest to start reading at some point in your language learning adventure,because from my experience it really boosts your learning.
P.S. Thanks for the video Luca,as always a great motivation for me to strive for more and keep on learning.
So would you say that maybe you listened to your TL 8-10 hours a day?
@@kennybev Mamma mia! no,haha! 30m when I left home,30m break time,30m on the way home. Those were golden 1h30m that I think I never skipped. The time home varied depending on how much strength,motivation I would have on different days,so that could go from 30m to 2 hours. Or maybe none if I was completely wasted and wanted to just chill! But hey,all that depends on the language doesnt it? different languages provide different types of content,that can shift your focus greatly. :)
@@GreatMisterE thanks for your reply. I'm going to use some of your tips
In my view, to read and listen at the same time is very useful, especially if you wanna learn vocabulary. I´m watching that and I notice that when I turn on the subtitles I understand the most word. I only use it when I don´t understand something. Sometimes what I do is to listen to those sentences again and I sometimes can understand it without subtitles.
Thank you for the awesome tips in this video, and the wonderful content on your channel.
p.s. A minor correction at 4:32 "slowlier" is not a word. You can use "slower" instead.
Multorum Unum Nope, it’s ‘more slowly’. In the same vein, ‘quicklier’ doesn’t exist either but ‘more quickly’ does. Good video though!
I’m sure he knows... it’s just when you speak, your sentences sometimes come out the wrong way, I think everyone experiences that sometime... I certainly do, and much more often than I would have liked...
My biggest struggle right now when it comes to listening comprehension is that I'm so early on that I can't find anything that has comprehensible input. What I can do is continue to be patient and continue learning words and phrases one by one. It takes time, but I have a book that will help me too.
Yea i get that too, can't figure out whether i am ready to listen to proper spanish or just keep learning words, thats whats frustrating for me
Tenerife,
Canary Islands,
Spain,
Africa.
Great content as always, but . . .
Was it just me, or was the volume on this one quite a bit lower than optimal?
Best wishes,
Patchy.
thanks for the great advice. strange though that a video about listening comprehension is recorded with terrible audio and a music bed that's too loud so quite hard to comprehend : )
Hey, Luca, how are you? I don't know if this is the right place to ask this kind of question, but I'd like to know if you intend to make some new videos speaking the languages that you already speak. Like that old videos when you had just started your channel on CZcams . I'm always looking for videos, for exemple, that you are speaking German, but I think I've already watched all of them. It would be intersting if you show us new videos of you speaking these languages with this new standards of videos that in my opnion are in an amazing qualitily level and it would be nice to see how you improved in some languages, it's a such inspiration. thanks a lot and I wish you all the best!
I would like tl see that too
Yes! I also wanted to say that I would find it very interesting and fun to have videos like this one in all different languages that you (and we) speak.
Vamos Luca
Hi Luca, what podcast in Polish do you listen to (and where can I find it)?
I learn English and struggle to understand words pronounced with an accent, and with different sorts of contractions (and to get something when sound is subtle).
I heard that I must be very familiar with word's vowels set - then I will be able to catch it from surrounding noise, but sometimes I confuse sounds (hear 'i' instead of 'u'), this happens automatically and I have no idea if time and practice will fix it))
Now I expose myself to intensive listening and some exercises on different web-sites, but it seems to me that to become a better listener I have to spend more time speaking in the target language (yes, to become more familiar with sounds).
wauuuu
Lucas you are the numer ONE language mentor unparelleled to others...
how you are great!! i am hoping the public thruly know it....
thanks million...
Korea Simon...
Great tips... thank you very much. However, the volume is quite low (even with my sound turned to max) with an echo. What happened to your mic?
Very welll...fandango !!!
Desde España.
i can sderstand you very welll.sometimes i need un pochino più piano
è un vero piacere ascoltarti, l'inglese e col l'italiano . Già capito benissimo l'italiano è più facile per me.
Como soy española y hablo mallorquín, la pronunciación es igual.
Gracias siempre
Complimenti
hej Luca, świetny klip !
Jestem ciekaw jaki Polski podcast wpadł Ci w ucho najbardziej?
My Mandarin has improved a lot it's just that when natives blend their words together (speaking at a fast pace) it's a different story lol and as an English speaker I do it as well just a force of habit 😂 plus I haven't studied on sentence structure well yet so maybe that's why
Losing the forest through the trees- I will be sailing along understanding something and then I will hear one of those words I can never remember and look up again and again. My attention on the conversation STOPS and I am trying to remember that one annoying word. Meanwhile the conversation has proceeded and I’m not in the flow anymore.
Hey Luca
I came across your channel..
I've been studying English for almost a year but
I'm kind of stuck in the intermediate level, I think your tips are very useful, so I'm going to put them in to practice..
By the way I subscribed to your channel.
If you want to practice, let me know. I love languages, and my target language is currently German, but I try to analyse how English functions in comparison and break it down, so I might be helpful (I hope).
Tip 7. If possible when listening to radio >> close your eyes ... you'll automatically focus more on the sound. (like blind people have to).
Tip 8. Watch & listen to vids AND read subtitles AND read aloud to yourself WITH headphone input over 1 ear only , 2nd ear hears your own voice.
Tip 9. Use full screen so you don't distract by looking at the next vid list etc.
Grazie
In my opinion the biggest struggle depends on the level. It's difficult for me to "see the big picture" for A1/A2 levels while I struggle with the vocabulary and the speed of speaking in an intermediate level.