Learn to understand the English spoken by native speakers (เจ้าของภาษา) Buy hereThe English you hear in the classroom is usually not the English you hear used by native English speakers in the real world. When native English speakers speak to each other, however they speak quickly and what they say may sound far from clear to those learning the language. "English: the real thing" is designed to help you move from classroom English to real-world English. The words you will likely not hear clearly are the so-called function words, words like "a," "and", "is", "she" and "for". They listen instead largely for the content words, words like "department meeting", "explain" and "tomorrow".

Source: Bangkok Post October 28, 2017 09:00 UTC