Speaking · 7 items per section
TOEFL Listen and Repeat Practice
Listen and Repeat is the first seven questions of TOEFL iBT Speaking: you hear a campus sentence once, with no text on screen, and repeat it word for word. In our graded tests, half of all lost Speaking marks are lost here. These 100 audio drills train both causes: missed words and long sentences. Level 1 is free.
- 100 questions
- 20 levels of 5
- CEFR A2–C1
- Level 1 free
How a level works
Each level is 5 questions: 5 sentences, each heard as audio: two to pick out from look-alikes, one to rebuild from its chunks, one to type in full and one with a word missing. You get feedback the moment you answer, and at the end you can review all 5, with the correct answer, why it is correct, why the option you picked was not, and what the question was training. 3 of 5 opens the next level, and any level can be replayed for a better star count.
The difficulty ladder
Foundations
Levels 1–5 · CEFR A2Everyday language and short texts. The point here is to get the mechanics of the task automatic before the content gets hard.
Building
Levels 6–10 · CEFR B1Longer material and less familiar topics. This is where the task starts to cost you attention.
Test Ready
Levels 11–15 · CEFR B2Real exam length, real exam difficulty. Clear this band and the task itself will not surprise you on test day.
Beyond Test
Levels 16–20 · CEFR C2Past what the exam uses, on purpose. Denser text, faster audio, closer distractors. Test day should feel like a step down from here.
Levels 1 to 15 stay inside real 2026 TOEFL parameters for this task. Levels 16 to 20 are deliberately harder than the exam. The first 1 levels are free and need no signup.
What Listen and Repeat actually tests
Each of the seven sentences is about a campus or daily-life situation: a tour of a building, a step in a procedure, a reminder about a deadline. You hear it once, an image stays on screen but the words do not, and after the tone you have 8 to 12 seconds to repeat it. The sentences grow as you go, from a short reminder to a long sentence with a clause in the middle.
It is marked word for word. A perfect repetition earns the top score and a single changed word costs marks, even when the meaning survives. So "allowed" for "permitted" is a mistake here, and so is a dropped -s or -ed. Saying the gist is the habit that loses the most points. Our Listen and Repeat lesson explains the technique; this page is where you practice it.
Where students lose marks on this task
In our graded speaking tests the marks lost on a repetition climb with its position: about half a mark on the first sentence, close to three on the seventh. The early sentences are short enough to hold; the late ones are not, and students keep the start, lose the middle and fill the gap with something plausible.
The other loss is hearing. Our tutors’ notes record the same swaps again and again: carrels heard as carols, advisor as device, guests as gas, checked said as check. A campus noun you have never heard is the easiest word to lose, which is why this ladder gaps words like registrar, syllabus and transcript on purpose.
How the 20 levels drill it
Every level is five sentences, each played as audio. Two ask which of four written versions you heard, where the wrong ones change one word, one ending or one small word. One has you rebuild the sentence from its chunks, with one chunk that was never said. One has you type the whole sentence, and the grader shows you word by word what you kept, changed or lost. One shows the sentence with a word gone and asks for that word.
Levels 1 to 10 play the typed sentence in two or three pieces before the whole, so you hear how a long sentence breaks into chunks before you are asked to hold one. Sentences run from 6 to 9 words in Foundations to 12 to 16 at Test Ready, the length of the hardest items on the real test, and 16 to 20 words, read faster, in Beyond Test. At levels 5, 10, 15 and 20 you say three sentences aloud and play your recording back beside the sentence. The recording stays in your browser.
Train it here, then say it to the tutor
These drills tell you exactly which words go missing and why. The AI Speaking Tutor then scores what you actually say, word match and delivery, and a timed speaking practice test puts all seven repetitions and the interview together. If you also lose words in Listening, Choose the Response trains the same one-hearing habit. For shadowing practice away from the screen, see our Listen and Repeat shadowing drills.
Level 1, written out
The free level, in text. In the drill you hear each sentence once and never see it until you answer, so try the level above first and use this to check.
Catch every word. Hear the sentence once and pick it from four written versions.
Show the sentence and the answer
You hear: Study carrels are on the second floor.
You heard 'Study carrels are on the second floor.' A carrel is a one-person desk in a library and carols are songs, so the version with carols swaps in a sound-alike. The other two change second to seventh or are to were, and each changed word costs a mark on the real task.
Hold it in chunks. Hear it once and put its chunks in order. One chunk was never said.
Show the sentence and the answer
You hear: The bookstore opens at nine thirty.
The chunk that was never said: at nine thirteen
The bookstore opens at nine thirty. Thirty is stressed on its first syllable, THIR-ty, while thirteen puts the stress on -TEEN and ends in a clear n, so the extra chunk names a different time. Numbers ending in -ty and -teen are among the commonest slips on this task.
Catch every word. Hear the sentence once and pick it from four written versions.
Show the sentence and the answer
You hear: Leave your bag by the door.
The speaker said 'Leave your bag by the door,' one bag with a hard g at the end. The version with bags adds a plural -s that was not there. Put means the same as leave and at works as well as by, but neither is the word you heard, and the task scores words, not meaning.
Type what you heard. Hear it and type every word, in order.
Show the sentence and the answer
You hear: Grab a tray at the front.
You heard 'Grab a tray at the front.' Tray ends in a long a sound, so do not type try, and there is only one tray, so no -s. The small words a, at and the all count, so check that none is missing.
The word you lose. Hear it, then type the one word that is missing.
Show the sentence and the answer
You hear: Your transcript request is ready for pickup.
The missing word: transcript
The missing word is transcript, the official record of your courses and grades. It is easy to catch only the second half and write script, or to stretch it into transcription. The registrar issues transcripts, and only that exact word fits here.