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E2.2 Read aloud

You can read a short passage aloud, smoothly enough that a listener follows it.

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The second level of the practice space moves from single sentences to short passages about daily life. Each passage carries a Telugu line saying what it is about, and the audio reads it to you so you can hear how the sentences join. This pairs with Reading practice in Basic English: the same skill, now out loud.

Say it out loud

Every line in the practice space is played aloud, with its meaning in Telugu. Listen, say it back, and play it again as many times as you like. The first set of each level is open without an account, and nothing records you.

Open Spoken English practice

Work through these

  • Listen to a whole passage before reading any of it aloud

    Hearing the passage first gives you the tune of it: where the voice rises, where it pauses, where a sentence ends. Reading aloud after that is imitation, which is how everyone learns to speak.

  • Read the passage aloud one sentence at a time, playing each sentence after you say it

    Sentence by sentence keeps the comparison small enough to hear. A whole passage at once hides which line went wrong; one line at a time shows you exactly.

  • Read the whole passage aloud in one go, without stopping between sentences

    Joining the sentences is the skill this level adds. The pauses between sentences should be breaths, not halts, and one unbroken reading is the test of that.

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