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Practice Italian listening in a really echoey tunnel!

August 15, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì.

As soon as I pressed ‘play’ on today’s free Italian listening comprehension task, I was like “OMG Stefi! What have you done?”

My wife recorded the interview at our school, a historic building with high arched ceilings.

Being covered in affreschi they’re very pretty, but they do rather reflect sound waves.

Beh, you can hear the effect for yourself by clicking here and looking for the Soundcloud plugin which powers the audio.

If you plan to be spending any time having Italian conversations in a really echoey tunnel, it’ll be great preparation!

That said, do persist – there’s a transcript to help you, the interviewee speaks very naturally, and overall the material is interesting and useful.

Here’s that link again: Hai mai…? (2).

By the way, the previous ‘Hai mai…?’ is on our ‘New’ page, along with the others in this series.

And the questions Stefi is asking can be found here.

Conversation prompts on other topics are here.

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And as I mentioned on Monday, there’s also a French version, which is set in Paris rather than Rome: Un délit artificiel

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Comments

  1. Anita Cummings says

    August 21, 2018 at 3:59 am

    Hi Daniel,

    I have just listened to Hai Mai 2. Sure, there was a bit of an echo but I could hear virtually every word and better still, understood. Like listening to a ‘normal’ conversation in a coffee shop or elsewhere. Very natural and amusing! Thanks!!

    • Daniel says

      August 21, 2018 at 7:59 am

      Grazie, Anita!

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