Questions and answers

A free website to practise listening. You hear a sentence from a real video, type it, and see your mistakes.

No. You can do every lesson without one. Sign in with Google only if you want the app to remember your progress.

Start with B1, or sort by Slowest speaker first. If most sentences are right in 1 or 2 tries, go up a level. How to choose.

10–20 minutes a day is great. Every day is better than one long day. Pick a daily goal: 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes.

More than 1,800 videos from TED, BBC Learning English and Great Big Story.

Not every video has a level yet. Try Speed: Slow or Sort: Slowest speaker first instead.

You see them only when you're signed in.

Yes! See how.

Yes. Click ⚙ on the video → Speed → 0.5x. With pictures.

The first and last words of a sentence are the hardest to hear, so the app gives them to you. Type the words in the gap. Typing the whole sentence is OK too.

It fills while the missing words are spoken. So you know where your part starts and ends.

No. Subtitles are always off, so you really listen. When you get a sentence right, you see all the words.

It plays 3 times, then waits. Press Replay or Tab to hear it again.

Get the sentence right first. Or press Skip.

That's a “Just listen” part: music, or words that are too short or too fast. The next sentence starts by itself. Press Enter to skip.

Go back with ◀ and press Undo. See how.

Close works like your browser's Back button. Click the DictationDaily logo at the top to go to the videos.

Look at the green word in the hint. That's what the video says. Often it's:

• a small word like “a” or “the”
• a word ending like -s or -ed
• a word your phone autocorrected

Type it the way the hint shows.

These are all OK:

• capital letters, commas, full stops, apostrophes
• numbers as digits or words: 19 = nineteen
• money: $5 = five dollars
• British or American spelling: colour = color

You heard the word, but one or two letters are wrong. Fix the spelling and press Enter.

No. When you type the last right word, the ✓ comes by itself. Press Enter only to check a sentence you're not sure about.

So you listen again for each word. Fix it, press Enter, and see the next one.

Not all at once. But each Enter shows you the next word. You can also skip.

It can happen. The sentences are written by a computer. Type what the hint says, or skip.

• You weren't signed in.
• You pressed START too fast. Wait one second.
• You didn't get any sentence right in that video yet.

The app remembers the last sentence you got right. If you went back and redid sentence 5, the lesson opens at sentence 6.

A new streak day starts at midnight world time (UTC), maybe not at your midnight. See your time.

Yes. One correct sentence keeps your streak. The goal is extra.

Only active time counts: listening and typing on sentences you got right.

When you're signed in, Status starts on Not finished. Choose Status → All videos. They are also on My videos, under Finished.

The “this year” numbers on My progress start again every 1 January. Your videos and streak are still saved.

Not now. You can still practise without signing in.

Check which Google account you used. Click your picture to see it. Each account has its own progress.

Your name, email and picture from Google, which sentences you got right and when, and your daily goal. What you type is never sent or saved.

No. You sign in on Google's own page.

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