Listening trainer: understand Spanish
Ten short listening tasks per round — slow or normal speed.
Listening closely helps you speak.
Listening trainer
Or practise one thing
Read along shows the text with every task straight away. Good for tuning in; answers then do not count, because it is no longer a listening test.
Good to know
Without sound or with hearing loss
Every task has a “Show text” button, and the “Read along” switch always shows the text. Everything works from the keyboard: Tab to the buttons, digits for the answers, Enter to go on.
What happens in a round?
Ten short tasks per round: recognise a word, hear the gap in a sentence, find the stressed syllable, tell two similar sounds apart, follow a dialogue. You decide when something plays — and whether slowly or at normal speed.
Why in small steps?
Listening to a new language means recognising sounds first, then where words begin and end, then the meaning. The trainer practises these steps one by one — and together in the mixed round. Feedback comes at once, so your ear learns what made the difference.
Why practise slowly?
At the start, a slower speed demonstrably helps understanding. Feel free to hear a task twice, slowly first and then at normal speed: the goal is normal speed, but the way there can be slow.
Where do the voices come from?
First, speech generated in advance by this website plays. Where there is no file for it, your browser speaks with its own voices — and switches between them, because words heard from many voices are easier to recognise later. These are not recordings of real speakers, and nothing plays unless you press a button.
Example sentences
A1 Me levanto a las siete todos los días.I get up at seven every day.
A1 Hace muy mal tiempo.The weather is very bad.
A2 Estoy de acuerdo con la propuesta.I agree with the proposal.
A2 Nos sirvieron muy rápido.They served us very quickly.
B1 Pon los subtítulos en español.Put the subtitles on in Spanish.
B1 Le denegaron la solicitud sin explicación.They turned his application down without any explanation.
B2 La diáspora se organiza por barrios.The diaspora organises itself by district.
B2 El estilo es recargado.The style is overloaded with ornament.
C1 El apodo se le quedó de por vida.The nickname stayed with him for life.
C1 La fibra muscular se corta al través.The muscle fibre is cut across.
C2 La cláusula de atribución sigue vigente en la licencia libre.The attribution clause still holds under a free licence.
C2 El análisis del delito busca patrones de lugar y hora.Crime analysis looks for patterns of place and hour.