Sound Advice helps students understand rapid, relaxed English, starting at the word and sentence levels and expanding to short conversations. The text/cassette combination helps students develop their own strategies for understanding language as it is spoken and exposes them to a variety of listening phenomena essential for comprehension of authentic, natural speech.

Look for these new features in the Second Edition:
-- New art-based preview activities that familiarize students with the often-troublesome aspects of listening comprehension.
-- Contextualized exercises that students can understand and relate to, from school and travel to dining out.
-- Unique chapter review "chants" that reinforce what students have learned.
-- TOEFL "RM" -style questions that help students prepare for the listening portion of the TOEFL "RM" Test.