Listening comprehension is one of the most important and fundamental of the four skills in language learning and also the most complicated one. Primarily, verbal communication is feasible only when the two interlocutors involved in a speech event are able to comprehend each other's speech. The major difficulty in verbal communication is normally that of understanding what one hears; while the speaker can control what he wants to say, the listener can not control what is said to him. Moreover, although the elements that comprise listening and speaking are the same, the former precedes the latter and is a prerequisite for it. Only after competence in listening comprehension has been established, will one be able to take on performance and develop it towards communicative fluency. That is, unless one has the ability to understand a message, he certainly can not produce it. The greatest difficulty for travelers in foreign countries is not primarily that they can not make themselves understood; this can be frequently done by gestures, writing, pointing to something, etc. Their major difficulty and one that leads to considerable emotional embarrassment, is that they can not understand what is being said to them and around them