Dictation is a method to learn languages by listening and writing down what you hear. It is a highly effective method!
This website contains hundreds of dictation exercises to help English learners practice easily and improve quickly.
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When practicing exercises at dailydictation.com, you will go through 4 main steps, all of them are equally important!
Through the exercises, you will have to listen a lot, that's the key to improve your listening skills in any learning methods.
Typing what you hear forces you to focus on every detail which helps you become better at pronunciation, spelling and writing.
Error correction is important for your listening accuracy and reading comprehension, it's best to learn from mistakes.
After complete a sentence, try to read it out loud, it will greatly improve your pronunciation & speaking skills!
Currently, there are more than 350 exercises on our website, they are divided into different topics. Below is the list of all the topics and some exercises for each of them:
A collection of audio articles introducing culture, people, places, historical events and daily life in English-speaking countries, especially Canada and America.
View allShort and fun English conversations in common situations you may experience in daily life.
View allListening to IELTS recordings will help you learn a lot of vocabulary and expressions about everyday conversations & academic talks. These recordings are mainly in British and Australian accents.
TOEFL listening recordings are academic conversations & lectures, mainly in American English. These recordings will help you to get better preparation if you are planning to study in a English-speaking country, especially the US and Canada.
Let's learn and practice the English alphabet by spelling some common English names.
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As long as you can understand this page, you're good to go! But it's better if you know basic English pronunciation, if you don't, watch this YouTube series.
It depends on many things (such as your current level, how many hours you will spend each day). I can only say that your English will improve very quickly with this method.
Speaking and listening skills are related together, once you have better listening skills, it's much easier and faster to improve your speaking skills.
Also, you can try to read out loud what you hear, your skills will improve really quickly!