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A2 English Listening Practice - Travel

English shadowing practice · 80 sentences · 3:32 long · 563 words

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “A2 English Listening Practice - Travel” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 80 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 165 words per minute, a fast pace, with an average of 7.0 words per sentence. That makes it best for advanced learners; slow the playback down or loop each sentence at first.

How to practise with this video

1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (English)

1. 0:00 hey everybody welcome to this a2 English
2. 0:03 listening practice video you can use
3. 0:05 this video to train your listening and
4. 0:08 comprehension as I speak you ready
5. 0:11 so today I'm going to talk about travel
6. 0:15 traveling is one of the funnest
7. 0:17 activities
8. 0:18 I've always loved traveling when I was
9. 0:20 young my family and I traveled to Hawaii
10. 0:23 many times in case you don't know much
11. 0:26 about Hawaii it's an island in the
12. 0:29 middle of the Pacific Ocean and it's
13. 0:31 also one of the 50 states of the US I've
14. 0:34 been there about six or seven times I
15. 0:37 don't remember how many exactly it's
16. 0:40 definitely one of my favorite places in
17. 0:42 the world Hawaii has plenty of really
18. 0:45 beautiful beaches and the lifestyle
19. 0:47 there is slow and calm but even though
20. 0:50 Hawaii is one of my favourite places to
21. 0:53 travel to in general I prefer the
22. 0:56 countryside the forests or the mountains
23. 0:59 more than the beach so I love taking
24. 1:02 camping trips and road trips I've taken
25. 1:05 a few different road trips through the
26. 1:07 US before and I just recently took a
27. 1:10 road trip through the tuscany region of
28. 1:13 italy it was one of the most incredible
29. 1:15 experiences I've ever had if you ever
30. 1:18 get the chance to go to Italy I highly
31. 1:21 recommend you to rent a car and drive
32. 1:23 through Tuscany trust me you won't be
33. 1:26 disappointed speaking of Europe I also
34. 1:29 took a backpacking trip through Portugal
35. 1:31 in Spain a few years ago it was my first
36. 1:34 time backpacking and it wasn't easy we
37. 1:37 spent a lot of time walking and taking
38. 1:40 buses and trains and the whole time we
39. 1:42 had these big backpacks on her backs we
40. 1:46 stayed in some pretty low quality
41. 1:47 hostels and thus we had some bad
42. 1:50 experiences the worst thing that
43. 1:52 happened to me was that I was bitten by
44. 1:55 bedbugs when I was in Madrid I don't
45. 1:58 know if you've ever been bitten by
46. 1:59 bedbugs before but it's not a fun
47. 2:02 experience and for me it was worse
48. 2:04 because I have really sensitive skin so
49. 2:08 I didn't just have little red spots on
50. 2:10 my skin I had big swole
51. 2:13 sores all over my arms so if you plan on
52. 2:17 staying in hostels when you travel you
53. 2:19 should definitely read the online
54. 2:21 reviews first sometimes it's better to
55. 2:24 pay a little more money to stay in a
56. 2:26 better place some people only like
57. 2:29 staying in hotels and other people
58. 2:32 really like air B&B ease and lately I've
59. 2:35 been staying at air B&B ease no matter
60. 2:37 where I travel it's definitely better
61. 2:40 than staying in hostels in my opinion
62. 2:43 another aspect of travel that's really
63. 2:45 important is the flight this is probably
64. 2:48 the worst part about traveling actually
65. 2:51 it is the worst part definitely I've
66. 2:54 been pretty lucky because I haven't had
67. 2:56 any really bad flights but I have had
68. 2:59 experiences with long delays and
69. 3:02 canceled flights which can really ruin
70. 3:04 your trip there were two times when I
71. 3:07 had to spend the night at the airport
72. 3:09 which was terrible I hope you guys don't
73. 3:12 ever have that experience so overall
74. 3:15 there are good and bad things about
75. 3:17 traveling but I think we can all agree
76. 3:20 that it's nice to travel once in a while
77. 3:22 okay that's all for today leave a
78. 3:25 comment and tell me your favorite place
79. 3:27 that you've traveled to I'll see you
80. 3:30 next video

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