The best way to master listening is to keep listening to a segment of movie/news/drama until you get virtually every word.

This means you need a 'A-B repeat function' on your computer's media player. That is, a function that lets you listen to just a few seconds of the audio repeatedly without fiddling with rewind again and again and again.

And it means, when things get difficult you can slow the audio down... so you need a 'playback speed function'.

Easy? No.

These are extremely rare functions for computer media players. Go on, see if your Windows Media Player has them.

Oh, almost forgot, I also want to delay the subtitles by, say, 2 seconds so I can guess the audio first time I listen to something... so I need a 'subtitle delay function.'

So this is the solution:

Downland the free GOM software at this address:

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_Introduction.html

This has both these crucial control functions and is also a dream to work with...

Anyway, lets get back to the Winnie the Pooh movie I'm watching...

thanks for the info