Dr. Rosi, thank you for your insights.

YouTube hosts comprehensive practice tests that include the audio playback and immediate walkthroughs of the answers.

| Challenge | Explanation | |-----------|-------------| | | Natural speech is fast, with hesitations, false starts, and connected speech (e.g., “gonna” instead of “going to”) | | Unfamiliar accents | Regional or less common accents may appear | | Ambiguous questions | HL questions often require choosing between two plausible answers | | Vocabulary load | Idioms, phrasal verbs, and subject-specific jargon (e.g., in texts about economics or psychology) | | Listening fatigue | Maintaining focus across 3–5 long texts (total 20–30 min of audio) |