English Listening Practice: Dictation & Comprehension

Improve your English listening skills with interactive dictation and comprehension stories. Listen to native speakers, type what you hear, and master the language through sound.

Sharpen Your Listening

Train your ear with native speaker audio and improve your comprehension skills.

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Whether you want to practice spelling with dictation or understand narratives with comprehension, we've got you covered.

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Dictation Practice

Listening Library

Explore our complete collection of listening exercises.

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Daily Life

Describing Your Hometown

Practice describing where you grew up. In this exercise, you'll hear about a charming small town with a castle, a river, and friendly locals. Perfect for learning how to talk about your origins and compare city life with country life.

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Nature

Weather Today

From thunderstorms and rainbows to warm sunny afternoons, practice discussing the changing weather. Learn essential vocabulary for umbrellas, temperatures, and planning outdoor activities like picnics in the park.

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Daily Life

Shopping Trip

Navigate a shopping mall with ease! Practice finding gifts, choosing wrapping paper, and discussing prices. Follow along as one shopper finds the perfect floral scarf for her sister's birthday and enjoys a cafe break.

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Social

Favorite Hobby

Explore the world of creativity through hobbies like painting, photography, and music. Listen to one artist's journey from childhood sketches to joining a local art club and dreaming of a downtown gallery exhibition.

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Daily Life

Weekend Plans

Follow Mark as he plans an exciting weekend of study at the library, family lunches at his grandmother's, and museum visits. Practice discussing schedules, chores, and relaxing activities for your days off.

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Social

Talking About Friends

Practice social English by listening to stories about long-lasting friendships and shared activities. From Emma the nurse to Linda's trip to Paris, discover how to describe the people who matter most in your life.

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Daily Life

Restaurant Reservation

Learn how to book tables, request special arrangements for birthdays, and inquire about menu options. These exercises feature scenarios ranging from a quiet corner table request to moving a booking to an outdoor terrace.

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Professional

Job Interview Tips

Level up your professional English with essential interview strategies. Practice listening to advice on company research, body language, and team culture, while perfecting your dictation with key workplace phrases.

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Daily Life

Introducing Yourself

Master the art of first impressions! Learn to share your personal background, hobbies like hiking and guitar, and daily routines. Meet characters like Sarah and Alex as they describe their lives and morning rituals.

Master English Listening with Interactive Dictation and Comprehension

Our listening lab is designed to bridge the gap between "I can read English" and "I can understand English." Hearing native speakers in real-world contexts is the fastest way to build natural fluency. We use a multi-sensory approach that combines high-quality audio with interactive visual feedback and active production challenges.

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Live Waveform

"See" the sound with our dynamic waveform. This visual feedback helps you identify word boundaries and stress patterns.

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Intensive Dictation

Type exactly what you hear. Our smart grading system awards partial credit and ignores minor punctuation slips.

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Comprehension Stories

Listen to multi-chapter narratives and answer specific questions to test your deep understanding of context.

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Progress Tracker

Every session is saved. Watch your accuracy percentage rise as you master more complex audio clips.

Intensive vs. Extensive Listening

To truly master English listening, you need two approaches: Intensive Listening (Dictation) and Extensive Listening (Comprehension). Our lab provides both to ensure a balanced development of your skills.

Smart Dictation: Precision Practice

Dictation is one of the most effective ways to sharpen your ear. It forces you to pay attention to every single sound, helping you catch those "hidden" words like articles, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs that are often skipped or blurred in fast, natural speech. By typing out what you hear, you build a strong mental connection between the sound of a word and its written form.

Comprehension Stories: Listening for Context

While dictation focuses on individual words, our comprehension stories focus on global meaning. You'll listen to native speakers tell stories or explain concepts across several chapters. After listening, you'll answer multiple-choice questions designed to test your ability to extract specific information, understand the main idea, and infer meaning from tone and context. This is the skill you need for real-life conversations and exams like IELTS or TOEFL.

Native Voices and Accents

Our library features high-quality audio recordings from native speakers. You'll be exposed to natural rhythm, intonation, and common reductions (like "gonna" or "wanna") so you're prepared for how English is actually spoken in the real world, not just in textbooks.

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What's New in Listening Lab

DEC 28, 2024

Live Waveform Visualizer

Visual Audio

"See" the sound with our new animated waveform player. Real-time visual feedback for every nuance.

DEC 21, 2024

Batch Accuracy Check

Dictation Upgrade

Submit entire dictations at once! Get semantic similarity scores to see exactly how close you are to perfection.

DEC 13, 2024

Episodic Stories

Structure

Listening stories are now broken down into chapters with individual progress tracking for better mastery.

DEC 05, 2024

The Success Meter

Motivation

Track your hitting rate with the new Success Meter. Reach 80% accuracy to unlock exclusive badges.

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