How often do you use lack of time as an excuse for not improving your language skills?  We all do it, but the truth is you have far more time available to you than you realise.  The trick is doubling up.

Whilst it’s true that in order to improve your speaking skills you need to practice speaking, you can improve your foreign language comprehension simply by listening more – and the great news is, you can often do this at the same time as doing something else.  Think of all the extra time you reclaim if you were to listen whilst:

There are dozens of hidden pockets of valuable time secreted throughout your day, you just need to get some content on your phone or MP3 player and keep your earphones with you in order to use them.

One final tip: put your audio player on loop.  Repetition is the key to comprehension!

Of course you can transfer our Free Word of the Day onto your phone as one source of audio content, but in my next post, I’ll be giving you some ideas for getting hold of more substantial samples to work with – without spending a penny.