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Originally Posted by svenlind
I have only bought a few audiobooks and am not sure that listening to books is something for me.
English is my second language and I consider myself a fluent reader in English, but I am not so fluent when it comes to listening.
The narrator is very important to me.
I will try some Danish books to give listening a chance.
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Like you English is not my first language, and the first time I tried to listen to audiobooks I had trouble keeping with the narration and gave up. After some time I tried again and I’ve been listening to them for about a year now, I found that it takes time and I had to train my brain and ears. In the beginning I had to make an effort, it’s like if I was listening to the radio and it was not clear, I had to tune in to the correct wave length to understand.
Now I’m used to it, that being said it requires more attention, I can’t be listening to a book while doing something that requires my brain to work, like reading or planning something, but I can do fine with listening while doing mundane tasks, like cooking, cleaning, walking. And it makes these chores much more palatable, I had to paint my house recently, and I did it while listening to audiobooks, it was almost fun because the book kept me engaged.
What I do is I always sample the audiobook to see if I like the narrator, some voices require more attention than others, when I find a narrator that I think I will like I listen to one book and then later I search specifically for books read by the same person. I’ve discovered several narrators that I like, and I have a list where I rate the narrator, I have some that for me are 5