[dogsbody70]

My Japanese friend studies here in UK. She speaks very well but her listening skills are very poor.

I have seen some of the textbooks she works on and I dislike them very much.

Mixing with more English people would improve her listening skills I feel sure.

I am sure I would have trouble learning from these text books. Nothing seems straight forward and so many multi questions.

They are the cambridge books set by academics-- concentrating on grammar.

I believe they make the study of English very difficult.