Dictatext has a growing number of short audio and written texts (currently over 30) designed help you internalise the real structures of English grammar and vocabulary. The approach draws on memorisation techniques that have proven effective for centuries, with recordings, interactive activities and self-test boxes to help you advance.
The texts are aimed at learners from pre-intermediate level upwards. The vocabulary texts are currently graded, but the grammar texts are not; they target specific grammar topics that learners of different levels may wish to focus on.
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How to internalise English in 6 steps with Dictatext
You can listen to the audio at normal speed or at dictation speed (slow)
When you click ‘check’you will see how accurately you have typed the text.
Use translation software to help you understand the text. Use a good dictionary such as Oxford Learner’s Dictionary if something still doesn’t make sense.
Dictatext uses gap fill, jumbled sentences and pelmanism activities to help you become more familiar with the text. You can also create your own gap fill tests to test yourself as you get closer to remembering the whole text.
The test is sensitive to spelling, but not punctuation. The test gives you an accuracy score and you can use it to judge how well you have remembered the text.
There is a wide variety of texts to choose from, but from time to time, come back to a text so that you remember it more thoroughly.