Many people like to practice dictation (listening to someone speak and writing what you hear).  It helps improve your English listening and writing.  You can also use dictation to improve your speaking.

The website englishharmony.com has some suggestions for how to do this:

1. Listen to a recording of someone speaking.  It’s best if …
   1. you can understand most of what they are saying
   2. they’re talking about something you find interesting
2. Write down what you hear (pause the recording as needed) and – SPEAK the words out loud as you write them down.
3. After you finish writing, read your sentence(s) out loud a few times
4. Then play the recording again and try to read along – out loud – comparing your pronunciation to theirs
5. Finally, try to tell (out loud) about what you just heard/wrote, looking at your writing as little as possible.  Do this a few times

You can start with some short dictation exercises that we have recommended.

Note: The Englishharmony website offers online training to buy.  Learning English in MetroWest does not make endorsements for any online training programs.