Transcribing newscasts only less than 10 minutes a week

I've been trying to transcribe CBS News Weekend Roundup for 2 weeks. I've been listening to this news podcast for years, but I doubt whether I understand the news very well. I began to transcribe because I wanted to understand news more, and because I found it unexpectedly fun if I'm able to write down what I've heard. Maybe in order to improve my English, there are a lot of better ways, but now I enjoy doing this.

I transcribe the newscast mainly on the train to work. Every time, I only can write down around 1 minute of speech, and at the end of the week, I could only transcribe from the start of podcast through about 8 to 9 minutes of 40-minute podcast. Basically I listen to a few words, stop my iPod, and then write down what I've just heard. I often rewind when I couldn't recognize a word.

In this month I want to transcribe at least 10 minutes, more than a quarter of the whole podcast. In order to do this I have to either increase time to engage myself in this task, or improve my listening, and note taking skills, with predicting what words will come next, and recognize the sound I listened the speakers are making.

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