Online listening

To start with, I always find myself quite good at listening tasks, however listening to the podcasts online is fairly
difficult. Notwithstanding I understood that listening online helps to improve my english vocabulary skills.

The first podcast was " Madame Tussauds Opens in Washington" (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-11/2007-11-01-voa42.cfm)
It was about the Madame Tussauds museum which is
very popular all over the world and now it has just been opened in the capital of USA. As I found, the girl who was speaking
in the report is the representative of this famous museum. She was talking quite slow, so it was easy to understand almost everything
from the first time. However I have listened for the podcast twice for the complete understanding.




The second podcast was "NASA Delays Spacewalk for Second Time" .I found it very difficult, because it was quite long
and there were many international words and terminology. I had to listen the podcast for the four times to understand
it, however I still haven't completed understanding.(http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-11/2007-11-01-voa53.cfm)
All in all I must say that listening exercises are very helpful to improve vocabulary skills, but I have understood I must
practise much more to be good at this.