A Thankful Letter To My Professor!

Dear Professor,

Today I want to thank you for all your helps during this semester. At the beginning of this semester, my listening was really poor. When I listened to the public radio I could only understand 25%. The public radio was really the “Foreign Language”. Every time I turned on the radio, I was a little bit scared, because I couldn’t understand. The first month of this semester, I didn’t finish the listening assignment, I am very sorry professor. I did listen to the assignment, but even I listened 3 times, I still couldn’t understand what they were talking about. I didn’t know what should I write about it. To be honest, at the beginning of this semester, the radio from New York Times’ Business Section was really hard. I almost lost my confidence. I didn’t want to cheat myself so I didn’t copy from the internet.

And then I talked with you professor, I was so happy that you did accept my opinion. And the listening assignment changed to Boston Radio Show Archive Section. Now I really enjoy this section. The first time I listened to this program, it was hard for me to catch up everything. I did the dictation at the first time. I listened to one sentence and then stopped it. I wrote down the sentence that I heard. Although it’s slow, but for the beginner like me, dictation did help me to understand the core meaning of the long article. Each archive I can write down 20 pages. Then I organized the whole dictation pages and summarize it. Add my own opinion to it, finally my assignment finish. After several times’ practice, I did improve my listening skills. Now I can listen to the whole archive without dictation and summarize the main idea after I listen to it. And the biggest improvement is I can understand 80% now. Except some idioms and slangs which some of them I don’t know.

Thank you very much professor! Without your help, I can’t improve my listening so quickly. You are my commander and I am your soldier. Every morning when I have my breakfast and listen to the public radio, I feel that how wonderful life is!

Professor, I hope you can keep reading my blog. This is not my final one, I will keep working on it. I really enjoy doing it now. When I want to say something, I want to type it into my laptop and post it on my blog.

I hope we can become friends, I learned a lot from you, not just knowledge but also wisdom.

Regards!

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