Not long ago I brought a listening comprehension test to class...it was part of the larger TOEFL (Itp) procedure.The students listened to thirty short campus related conversations and tried to mark the correct answer on their answering sheet....the results were interesting: the student who had exposed himself to watching most of his DVD based films in English and not in the 'dubbed - in' German version had trained his ears in such a way that he scored the highest of the rest...great job Karsten!
And you wonder why the lobby of the English teachers in Germany ( if there is such a thing )is still not able to break the monopoly of these have-to-dub companies!?
Other countries like Holland and Sweden never dub their films - not even in their cinemas...I recently saw the film: MILK about the gay movement in San Francisco in pure Amrican English while chewing on popcorn in a Swedish movie theater....
So here are some more interesting and up-to-date listening exercises to improve our listening skills... they involve the ears and the eyes and the computer mouse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/unit1/listen1.shtml
