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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #37711 Short French
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
Result:

Correct Transcript:

Despite the confusion of ideas raising in my head, I was at least young, innocent, and free that summer consequently almost happy. Sometimes I would rise quite early in the morning, for I slept on the open verandah, and the bright, horizontal beams of the morning sun would wake me up. Dressing myself quickly, I would tuck a towel and a French novel under my arm, and go off to bathe in the river in the shade of a birch tree which stood half a verst from the house. Next, I would stretch myself on the grass and read raising my eyes from time to time to look at the surface of the river where it showed blue in the shade of the trees, at the ripples caused by the first-morning breeze, at the yellowing field of rye on the further bank, and at the bright-red sheen of the sunlight as it struck lower and lower down.
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Printed "raining", the speaker says "raising"

Explanation: You will hear "confusion of ideas raising in". Both words start with the same letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "want", the speaker says "would"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "Sometimes I would rise quite". The first letter is the same, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "truck", the speaker says "tuck"

Explanation: Listen again to "I would tuck a towel". Both words start with the same letter, and the printed word is one letter longer.

Printed "stand", the speaker says "stood"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "which stood half a". The printed word ends differently, so listen for the final letters.

Printed "yellow", the speaker says "blue"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "where it showed blue in". The words start with different letters, so trust your ears, not the printed colour.

"verandah" matches the audio

Explanation: "on the open verandah" has an older word for a porch that may look strange. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"rye" matches the audio

Explanation: "field of rye on the further" has a short name for a crop that might seem odd. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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