I had listened one podcast:
“The Exit Door” at BBC World Service, broadcast Tuesday 23rd February 2010
I had an am to self-assess what skills do I have to listening tasks, especially how I can understand the authentic speech.
I can’t but admit that the task is still difficult for me. I needed to listen to podcast twice and where the vocabulary was hard to recognize for three or four times. To tell the truth, sometimes it wasn’t enough for the complete understanding. The rate of podcast is still too fast for me.
This podcast helped me to realize how well I am ready to past my English exam. So, I must admit that I should listen to native speakers’ speech more often.
So, let me say some words about the podcast. The news was about the problem of American economics. The world is still awash with economic stimulus money, even though most economies are now out of recession. The question is how to exit gracefully from the stimulus, without threatening the recovery. Some commentators suggest America took its first big step towards the exit door, when the Fed raised the discount rate last week, which is used for emergency lending to banks.
