NOTE: This video mentions "Oral Dictation" Which is now "Listen and Repeat"

This step trains your listening and pronunciation skills. It prepares you for real conversations. In a real conversation, though, you won’t have to listen to every single word as you do here. So, your training will be a bit harder than necessary. You don’t mind, do you?

This is basically the same as the dictation that you got to know already. Just that this time you won't write anything down. You "simply" repeat what you hear. Ideally you do so by using headphones and one of the apps that I recommended in the Preaching lectures: either speechnotes.co for Android or web or Just Press Record for iOS. The steps are as follows:

1. Start the recording on the above recommended apps.
2. Listen to (half) a sentence then push pause.
3. Repeat immediately what you have heard out loud but rather slow and clearly. The app/webpage will then transcribe what you are saying.
4. When you feel you have done enough of this exercise, stop the transcription/recording and
5. Listen to the original again while reading along the transcription in front of you.
6. Pay attention to any mistake you might notice.
7. Now compare your transcription with the original text. Copy your text from speechnotes.co and paste it into any "Text Difference Checker" like this one to compare it with the original text, ponder a bit over the mistakes you find.
8. Repeat steps 1-7 once or twice. Ideally you feel comfortable with your performance. But please never (!) strive for more than 80% perfection. If 100% come effortless to you, congratulations. But that should not be a conscious goal of yours during this course.

Now try it with the audio from this lesson on the next step.