Teaching Listening Skills

At Toastmasters clubs for speakers we learn listening skills.

It is surprising that these are not taught at school. English exams concentrate on the written word. Only in English as a Foreign Language does the exam test comprehension of the spoken word.

A salesman is taught to listen for the buyer's hopes and fears and to answer them.

In romance the spoken word is important. It's the difference between a young man getting his face slapped or getting kissed.