Oi, listen up! Welcome back to the 8 - Minute English podcast on the Learn English Podcast channel. I'm your host, Nathan, and today we're cutting through the crap. Let me guess, you "listen" to English by watching Friends for the fourt time, nodding like a bobblehead, and calling that "practice"? Please. Mate, let's be honest! Your listening skills are flatter than a pancake in a stearmroller. Your hear a native speak and suddenly you're in a horror film. No subtitles, no clue, just vibes. Well, that ends today. We've got 5 real steps to fix your listening. No fairy dust, no nonsense. Just you, your ears, and a brain ready to stop being lazy. Meet Krolina, 19, poor girl thinks every native speaker is speaking in bloody riddles. Then there's Thomas, 20, who talks like his life depends on speed. Grab the free PDF. And for heaven's sake, take notes. Let's get to work. Thomas, I'm losing my mind! I watch this video three times and still only caught, like ... half of it. Am I stupid or what? Hold up. What were you even watching? An interview with Bill Gates. Girl, you jumped from "Hello, my name is" to Bill Gate lecturing about supercomputers? That's like trying to fly a jet before you can ride a bike. I thought if I listened to hard stuff, I'd improve faster? And if I run into traffic, I'll get fit faster too? Not funny. Okay, I hear you. But seriously, why don't you start with something easier? Like what? Tom and Jerry. You know what the first rookie mistake is? Picking stuff that's way too hard.