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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #37843 Short Simon Wheeler
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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:

In complains with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded.
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Printed "complaint", the speaker says "complains"

Explanation: Listen for "In complains with the". The words look similar at the start, so hear the whole word before clicking.

Printed "along", the speaker says "after"

Explanation: You will hear "inquired after my". The first letter is the same, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "appeared", the speaker says "append"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "I hereunto append the". The spoken word is much shorter than the printed one, so listen for a shorter ending.

Printed "connected", the speaker says "conjectured"

Explanation: Listen again to "he only conjectured that". The words end the same, so focus on the middle where they differ.

Printed "want", the speaker says "would"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "he would go to". They start with the same letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "seemingly", the speaker says "certainly"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "it certainly succeeded". The words start with different letters but end the same, so check the start.

"garrulous" matches the audio

Explanation: "good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler" has a rare word. It looks tricky, but the speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Smiley" matches the audio

Explanation: "Leonidas W. Smiley" is a repeated name in the text. It may catch your eye, but the speaker says this name exactly, so do not click it.

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