Almost everyone has the feeling that is harder handling the face to face talk than listening to the news on radio, although having years English training.
Among varying things may be hurting the conversation couldn't continue, in my opinion, a person can’t keep up the pace of talking is the main reason cause all sort of understanding problems.
Unfortunately most the time it is impossible to let you ask for a break during the conversation, typically talking with your boss, haha；therefore, improving the responding time is quite important I guess.
下面是我用过的一些办法，希望能对大家一点帮助。
1）扩大词汇量，
以能看懂本地蓝领报纸为目标， 比如温哥华的 The Province. GRE词汇就免了。不要学成火上房了，还在喊，flame, flame...哈哈
2）多听多重复
我车上的收音机永远固定在当地的Team1040,一个全天讲冰球的节目。。哈哈，全天下的人都知道加拿大人唯一喜欢冰球。试着重复你听到的词汇和句子，时间长了一定会有效果的。
3）学会在谈话中给自己buy some time,
这个很重要，特别是听不太明白的时候。不过，帕得米就免了，说一些 比如， you mean...; if i am right , you talk about..; i don't get..； can you say it again...
4) 准备工作
特别是参加重要的会议， 做一些笔案会有很大帮助。
It isn’t easy, and the result may be various, because it depends on how much effort and time you are willing to put in; However, comparing other things, the beauty of learning language is actually you can feel the progress as long as you practise everyday. Good luck!!
