Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn! Beginning (Udemy.com)
Popular English listening class - From the Author of the Bestselling Real Spoken English Listening Book, "Whaddaya Say"!
Created by: Nina Weinstein
Last updated August 2026
What you will learn
- Listening rules to more easily understand real spoken English
- How to communicate with English speaking global teams more accurately
- Comprehensive listening practice that's helped hundreds of thousands of English learners, partly based on my bestselling listening book, "Whaddaya Say"
- Step 1 of the same listening skills learning path my individual, online, international Toyota learners enjoy
- Conversation is 50% listening. STRONG LISTENING SKILLS equal stronger conversation skills.
- GET A REAL NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER ACCENT! – Written English and spoken English sound different. Learn how. Learn how to sound like a native English speaker!
How it compares
Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 25% of them
- Reviews9,878#28 of 536 by number of reviews
- Length1.2 hoursshorter than 94% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 86% of them
Course Description
Nina Weinstein, the author of the gold standard, bestselling, listening book for hundreds of thousands of international English learners, "Whaddaya Say, Third Edition", created and teaches this class just as she has taught her Toyota Motor Sales real-time employees how to become top-level listeners since 1999.
But what about AI? Do we still need English instruction or can AI do it for us? AI is very powerful, but it makes mistakes. It can teach us what specifically we ask for, but if the learner isn't a trained teacher, how does he or she know what specifically to ask when the inevitable difficulties of learning a language come up? When company-to-company competition is so fierce, doesn't an employee who doesn't need the extra step of AI appear more confident and impressive than one who does?
Nina feels that real communication lives in the nuances. The strongest international communicators can shift when the way the words sound shifts. No company wants just the basics. Companies want to be able to compete on all cylinders, and step 1 to any successful communication is accurate listening.
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This learning path teaches international learners how to hear the differences between spoken and written English. Being able to understand spoken English is the most important language skill for international workers. This class is based, in part, on the English listening course Nina taught as a teaching fellow at Harvard University which was based in part on the bestselling "Whaddaya Say, Third Edition" by Nina Weinstein. It's the fastest, most effective English language learning path in three easy steps (plus a bonus):
1. Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn, Beginning
2. More Listening Skills English Learners Need, Intermediate
3. (How to Get) Your Best English Fast (Advanced)
4. Bonus: "Master Business English Fast - Don't Be Left Out!" -- Taught by Nina, the author of 21 English textbooks
5. Companies Want These Business English Skills - TOEIC Preparation
STEP 1 IN ANY ENGLISH LEARNING PATH.
Do you want to sound more like a native English speaker and do you need to understand natural speed English-- the English people really speak? Then you NEED this class now.
Easy, fun, step-by-step English language skills fast! Spoken English sounds very different than written English. This class teaches you to understand the way speakers really pronounce English. Your teacher explains English pronunciation lessons step-by-step in easy-to-understand English and gives simple rules you can apply whenever you listen to natural-speed, spoken English. Just as grammar has rules, spoken English has rules that will help learners more easily decode the most common sound changes or "reduced forms" that happen when people speak English at a natural speed.
For English language learning and communication at work, you need great English listening skills. These days, most of us don't have hours and hours to learn to understand real spoken English. If you have just sixty minutes, you can change your understanding of English conversation forever.
You could spend hundreds of hours learning to understand English pronunciation the way it's REALLY spoken. But why do that when this one-hour class will get you there faster? Your teacher, Nina Weinstein, has taught English to some of the most powerful international executives in the world -- from Toyota, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Tatung, Sumitomo, and others. The takeaway -- busy people who don't have a lot of time to learn English still need English. In one entertaining hour, Nina will give you many of the same listening lessons she gives to non-native, English-speaking employees from major companies-- employees who must understand English speakers to do their jobs. Most lessons are ten minutes or fewer!
Nina wrote the most widely used book to understand spoken English, "Whaddaya Say, Third Edition". The second edition was published by one of the biggest publishers in the world, Pearson Education. Oxford University, Stanford University, UCLA and many other libraries include Nina Weinstein's famous listening book, "Whaddaya Say".
BONUS: When you understand how native English speakers REALLY speak (the major differences between written and spoken English pronunciation), you can sound more like a native English speaker!
"Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn! Beginning" is the "magic sauce" of English listening. In each lesson, you'll enjoy step-by-step, practice exercises to hear and understand more of spoken English. These practice exercises were written by Nina, the author of twenty-one English textbooks for major New York publishers.
The learning path: The beginning level, "Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn! Beginning"; intermediate listening class, "More Listening Skills English Learners Need, Intermediate"; and advanced listening class, "(How to Get) Your Best English Fast" are all in the elite Udemy for Business program. These three English classes make Nina's very popular listening program.
Nina has a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and she taught her listening program at Harvard University as a teaching fellow. "Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn! Beginning", "More Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn, Intermediate", and "(How to Get) Your Best English Fast" are Steps 1, 2 and 3 of her very popular English listening skills program.
"Easy, natural way to listen to real native English speakers. I would absolutely recommend it. Before taking this English course, I went through many English courses, but none of them were as comprehensive as " Listening Skills English Learners Must Learn! Beginning". It takes you by the hand and teaches you the real secrets to understanding native English speakers. Easy to follow and entertaining. I would absolutely recommend it." Salvatore Scaniglia
"Exactly what I wanted to learn! I couldn't recognize those English sounds before going through these lessons." Vadim Dzyuban
"This English course helps you a lot on your listening, 5-star recommended." Sant Cheung
*Lots of practice exercises!
*Listen to many different native speakers-- male, female, young, older, etc.!
*Easy explanations!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
9,878 Reviews
Nina Weinstein
Nina Weinstein embodies the strengths of Coursera and Udemy. She has a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of California, Los Angeles. She wrote twenty-one English textbooks for major publishers such as Pearson Education, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Heinle & Heinle, etc. that are held in libraries such as MIT, Oxford University, New York University, Kyushu University, etc. She was "the English Doctor" for Voice of America Radio, where she was one of the first people to teach English live on Facebook to hundreds of thousands of people in countries around the world.
She was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, where she taught all skills, and an early version of her custom course in listening to authentic spoken English. She tested the first edition of her spoken English listening book, "Whaddaya Say", while she was at Harvard. "Whaddaya Say" is a bestselling book (Pearson Education, about 45 printings; currently in its third edition with Pro Lingua Learning). Hundreds of thousands of learners all over the world understand how native speakers really speak through this book.
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Reviews
By Alex Chiacchiari on 11/25/2025
The course gave me a list of useful points to get the natives. He made me recognize my limits and this is very important to me. It goes straight to the point. There's a lot to study and now I'm more aware of it. Thanks Nina, hope you answer me to my question
By Mimi Rivera on 9/1/2024
I explored this course for the international students at our school and can recommend it even to advanced ESL students. A non-native English speaker can learn tips to speaking faster natural-sounding English.
By Princess Jade Barrenechea on 8/4/2024
This course is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to learn English quickly and effectively. The lessons are well-structured and engaging, making the learning process both enjoyable and efficient. The instructor's teaching style is clear and easy to follow, which is perfect for beginners. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their English skills and achieve success.
By Anonymized User on 2/6/2023
Amazing and very clearly explained. She has given some very smart hacks. I strongly recommend this course to all the new English-speaking learners who to sound like a native speakers.
By Pattapong M on 10/18/2021
The content was useful in overall. However, the main idea in each episode was so little compared to the total length. All episodes could have been combined into just one.
By Nguyen Trung Long on 10/25/2020
Your course is helpful for me!
By Reyna Barajas Cazares on 10/17/2020
have more examples
By Norihiko Yamamoto on 10/12/2020
I have not noticed vey much how different the spoken English and the written English are.
By Lilsy Eva Sifuentes Martinez on 10/10/2020
I love it, I think it can help me to improve my pronunciation
By JOTHISHKUMAR THEKKOOTE on 9/27/2020
i feel good..
By Anonymized User on 9/23/2020
Thank you !
By Shivprasad Jayswal on 9/2/2020
Good learning! I enjoyed a lot.
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