Native speakers do not say every word separately. Test how smoothly you link words together in ten natural sentences. This version uses C2 sentences: near-native challenges, dense sounds and fast rhythm.
In natural English, words run into each other. A final consonant joins the next vowel, so an apple sounds like a napple, and some sounds disappear or change, so want to becomes wanna in casual speech. Speaking word by word makes you sound robotic and harder to follow. This test checks whether the computer recognises your words when you speak in a natural flow.
At C2 the aim is effortless, near-native clarity. These proficiency sentences pack difficult sounds into fast, dense phrases, many of them close to tongue twisters, so even confident speakers find out what still needs work.
Stopping after every word
Adding a vowel between words, so it is sounds like it-a is
Pronouncing every small word with full stress
Rushing so much that the key words disappear
Each sentence trains one sound. The orange label above the sentence tells you which one.
Anna and Andy eagerly ate oranges in an open area on an extremely early afternoon.
Is it an earring or an egg in an envelope that Ellen found on an old armchair?
She always tells it like it is, which some colleagues find refreshing and others find rather alarming.
I will keep an eye on your bags while you nip to the cafe for some sandwiches.
All of us ought to eat an apple at eight on an icy autumn evening in April.
He tried his luck at acting for several years before settling into a much steadier career in teaching.
Letting the cat out of the bag about the surprise party would have ruined months of careful planning.
Moral luck refers to situations in which people are judged for outcomes that were largely beyond their control.
She gave it her all in the final race, collapsing across the finish line in a state of exhaustion.
Whether we like it or not, office politics shape who gets noticed, promoted and quietly left on the shelf.
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Hear each sentence read by a natural British or American voice, at normal speed or slowly.
Tap the microphone and read the sentence. Your words appear on screen as you speak.
See a score out of 100 with every word in green, amber or red, then practise the red words.
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