Shadowing practice: What's Your ENGLISH Level ? Take This Test! (2026 Edition)

This clip is a spoken CEFR test: the host reads out multiple choice grammar questions and then states the correct answer out loud, one after another. That format is unusually good for english speaking practice because every line is short, self contained, and immediately followed by a model answer you can compare yourself against.

The recording sits at A2 and moves at 158 words per minute, faster than 24 percent of the catalogue, so the sentences arrive briskly but each one is a clean, complete statement rather than a run on thought. The accent is mixed. Across 151 lines you get a steady rhythm of question, three answer options, then the correct sentence spoken plainly, which makes this a practical way to improve your english speaking on everyday grammar rather than on rare vocabulary.

The value here is in the contrast between wrong and right, spoken back to back. Three lines show what to listen for.

• "The correct answer is Catherine doesn't like spicy food." comes right after two broken versions, so your ear hears the wrong subject verb agreement first and the fixed form second, which is exactly the comparison that helps pronunciation and phrasing stick.
• "I think it will rain tonight." is read out as the correct choice over a present tense guess, a small but common trap with future predictions that is easy to miss when reading but obvious once you hear it stressed.
• "He called her last night." follows the scrambled option "Him called she last night.", so shadowing this line forces you to say the pronouns in the right slot instead of just recognising that they are wrong on the page.

Treat this as a listen, answer, repeat loop rather than one long watch. The structure of the clip does the pacing for you.

• Start at line 1, "What is your English level right now?", and shadow the host's phrasing on lines 1 to 5 before any questions begin, this is your warm up for the pace of the recording.
• At Question 1, pause after the three options in lines 10 to 12 and say your own guess out loud, then shadow line 13, "The correct answer is Catherine doesn't like spicy food.", to hear the fix immediately.
• Repeat that pause and shadow pattern through Question 6, lines 30 to 33, where the model answer is simply "That backpack is mine.", a short line worth saying until it comes out fluently without hesitation.
• Slow down on Question 9, lines 42 to 45, since "He called her last night." is the kind of short, common sentence that is worth practising until the pronouns land naturally.
• Finish the beginner block by repeating line 51, "You've now finished the beginner section of the test.", then check yourself against lines 52 and 53 before moving into the intermediate questions that follow.
• This clip works well for daily english shadowing practice because each block is only a few lines long, so you can run it in short sessions rather than committing to the whole video at once.