Listening · about 10 minutes
Input Ladder
Comprehensible input, one rung at a time. Hear a phrase, work out what you can, then reveal the text and find out how close you were.
No signup. Ten rounds a session.
Today’s Plan uses this to stretch comprehension slightly past where you are comfortable, which is the only place input does much.
What a round looks like
Understand first, verify second
You guess before you are shown
The phrase plays with no text on screen. That gap — where you are reaching for meaning and have not got it yet — is the part that does the work, and showing the words too early removes it entirely.
Ninety phrases across three levels
A1 through B1: twenty-three phrases at each of the first two levels and twenty-two at the third. Enough to take a beginner to lower-intermediate listening, and honest about stopping there rather than implying an advanced ladder that has not been built.
Each item carries its level, so you always know how far up the ladder the thing you just failed to understand actually was.
- 90
- phrases with reviewed audio
- A1–B1
- three levels, honestly bounded
- 10
- rounds a session
- Audio
- before text, every time
When you can hold a phrase
Dictation Gym asks you to write down what you heard, which is much harder.
Dictation GymListening, explained
Why understanding before decoding is the order that builds a listener.
Thai listening practice