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I had listened one podcast:
“Currency Battles” at BBC World Service, broadcast Thursday 25th March 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p006rpsj/Business_Daily_Currency_Battles/
Well, my listening task is not so difficult as it was before. The rate of podcast presenter's speech wasn't too fast, but when speaks a person, asked to give interview, he naturally talks a little faster. But I “caught” the sense and the meaning of many words was clear for me. It stands to reason that there are some moments which I have to listen to several times, but I can’t but admit that, listening to podcasts, my English is improving day after day.
And now, about the podcast. It was about currency battles between America and China. America argues that Beijing is keeping its currency artificially low with the result that the rest of the world has higher unemployment. America gets tough with China. There is a view, and that is that real politics will stop America going into a trade war. Also in the news was a discuss about a future for the electric car.

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I had listened one podcast:
“Trouble and strife” at BBC World Service, broadcast Sunday 21st March 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p006nk1n/Business_Weekly_Trouble_and_strife/
It wasn’t a secret for me that I would have some problems with podcast. But people spoke slow enough to understand the sense. Sometimes I had to listen twice. In the whole, I must admit that this podcast wasn’t as difficult as others. So, maybe I have a really progress. But I still must listen to native speakers as much as possible. It’s necessary for pasting exam good.
Now, I’d like to say some words about the podcast. The news was about trouble and strife in Spain and Africa. Spain’s economy has a lot of problems. Property prices collapsed. Unemployment is now a staggering twenty per cent of the workforce. One of the big African problems is remoteness from markets - and the internet shrinks those distances.