How to understand native speakers

You're not alone by any means reda-red, even other English speakers have extreme difficulty understanding Texan, it seems to be a language all of its very own, as if their accent alone isn't bad enough.

It's the only place in the civilized world that people will tell you to go through a red light. We usually stop for a red light and go through a green one, but there when they say red light they're talking about a traffic light, not its color. Who knew???

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

Practice is probably the only way.  If there was a quick & easy trick, everyone would be talking like us.  We don't even all talk like us.  I don't sound anything like someone from New York, Louisiana, Washington, Maine, Mississippi..... or Texas.

And Chinese people never stop at red lights.

thank's for advices :-)

What helped me a lot was watching lots of TV series on DVD. Series worked better than movies. Watching the news also helped. Now I moved on to audio books.

I start watch movies in english but I understand just 30 % !! I have just watched the movie PREJECT X !!

Series are easier to follow. At the beginning I used subtitles. Don't get encouraged, it takes some time.

ok I'll do your steps untill I get it