The Power of ONLY Listening

Polly Glott
3 min readDec 25, 2022

Give your ears some credit

Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash

Of the four language skills, listening doesn’t get a lot of attention because it’s the most passive of the bunch. There’s also no straight line to a more active skill like speaking or writing — but the tragedy of being overlooked is that listening might be the most valuable foundational skill.

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