Stop saying: “Listen me when I am talking.”
Say instead: “Listen to me when I am talking.” · A2 · Prepositions
✗ Wrong
Listen me when I am talking.
✓ Correct
Listen to me when I am talking.
Why?
Listen is followed by to before a person or a thing. You listen to someone, listen to music, and listen to the radio. Without to, the sentence is incomplete.
More examples
🎙️ REAL VOICES
The three correct examples below, in a real voice.
✗ Please listen the teacher.
✓ Please listen to the teacher.
✗ I like listening music in the car.
✓ I like listening to music in the car.
✗ He never listens his parents.
✓ He never listens to his parents.
Listen needs its little bridge: to.