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Vespa, Yes I can generally hear a chord and know what it is. Or even hear a progression and know what a few chords are.
It just comes from listening to and playing lots of music. And also (a bit of theory).
A good thing to get into is ear training. It's really good to learn your intervals ie the spaces between notes. If you can hear an interval then after a while you can hear a chord.
For example the first to notes of 'oh when the saints' are a third apart (first note of the major scale, then the third not - doh, me). After a while you'll be able to hear a thrid everytime it pops up in music (which is a lot).
Pretty much all chords are made up of some variation of 1, 3, 5 plus some other notes maybe.
It's really useful to be able to hear the difference between major and minor chords, from there you'll be able to hear major7, min7, etc.
just make a tape of someone playing the chords and intervals on a piano and listen to it on you ipod. You'll improve in a week!