Train your eyes to listen. Watch television shows with the volume lowered. The news provides speakers who are trained to talk clearly. As you improve your lip reading ability, move on to more challenging television shows. You can also lower the volume by increments until you can fully mute the TV.
Study at your computer. There are many video and CD Rom courses available online. "Seeing and Hearing Speech" produced by the Sensimetrics Corporation is a CD-Rom that teaches reading lips.
Learn tips for reading lips. A well-lit room offers you a better view of people's lips. Only 30 percent of most speech can be distinguished by looking at the lips, so you need to consider the context. Watch for facial cues and hand gestures as people speak. Ask people to repeat phrases or find other words they can use to convey their thought.
Practice with friends. It's harder to understand words when people exaggerate or enunciate the syllables. Ask your friends to talk like they normally do. You can practice by having them silently mouth words for you to guess.