Listen can be noun, media-speak says
"Television newscasters use the phrase, ‘Take a listen,’” said Diane Morlock of Enid as Buck checked her windshield wiper reservoir at Curly’s Soonerco. "Is this correct?”
It depends on how lofty you want to be and how much scorn you want to endure from people who frown on any descent into informality.
Normally, "listen” is a verb, but Merriam-Webster ’...
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