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I can totally relate. Reading lots of english makes very little to your listening skills.

I mostly "solved" it by listening lots and lots of podcasts, but I can still remember googling the word "ossom" which a podcast host repeated every two or three sentences. I was puzzled to discover that he was actually saying "awesome", a word I definitely knew and I was familiar with.

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> Reading lots of english makes very little to your listening skills.

It makes a lot. In fact, it's the most effective way to master the speaking and listening skills. There are 2 things that you need though:

1. Read out loud.

2. Use forvo/younglish/Oxford dictionary to find out how to pronounce words you haven't seen before.

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