Carmody wrote:I am a B1 in listening and am curious how do you begin to listen in your target language?
I'm not really B1 in anything that has audio, so have been slow to respond, but I followed Smallwhite's recommendation for Ari's Chinesepod method and haven't looked back - it's made 'listening from the beginning' really possible, and I find it constantly pushes the envelope of what I can understand. It might be hard to get listening up to the same level as reading, but this way you can come pretty close.
Several of the best of Smallwhite's posts on the topic were here: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =40#p72231, she mentions how with only 56 hours of listening including admin time, for her Dialang B2 in Greek, as well as using it on other occasions.
Ari's original post is here: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/fo ... ?TID=29828