C2 listening practice with TED-Ed videos
TED-Ed animated videos on science, history, health and philosophy, about 5 minutes each. Watch a short segment, type what you hear and check every word.
Level
- Category
- TED-Ed
- Level
- C2 Proficient
- Lessons
- 19
- Segments
- 1,527
- Levels in category
- C1–C2
Browse 19 Lessons
19 lessons
- 1 What are those floaty things in your eye? 57 segments Start 57 segments
- 2 The history of chocolate 59 segments Start 59 segments
- 3 Scientists are obsessed with this lake 65 segments Start 65 segments
- 4 Why is "The Scream" screaming? 67 segments Start 67 segments
- 5 How does nuclear fusion work? 60 segments Start 60 segments
- 6 Tuberculosis 67 segments Start 67 segments
- 7 Who decides how long a second is? 78 segments Start 78 segments
- 8 Is life meaningless? 80 segments Start 80 segments
- 9 What is hysteria? 76 segments Start 76 segments
- 10 Why don't companies want you to repair your stuff? 68 segments Start 68 segments
- 11 How are these fires burning underground? 69 segments Start 69 segments
- 12 A brief history of chess 72 segments Start 72 segments
- 13 The dark history of arsenic 82 segments Start 82 segments
- 14 The history of the lobotomy 83 segments Start 83 segments
- 15 How Rats Conquered The World 77 segments Start 77 segments
- 16 What actually causes high cholesterol? 90 segments Start 90 segments
- 17 The medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde 67 segments Start 67 segments
- 18 The biology of our best and worst selves 223 segments Start 223 segments
- 19 The fall of the Ottoman Empire 87 segments Start 87 segments
C2 Proficient English Lessons
C2 lessons are long, varied recordings: lectures, documentaries and talks with idioms, asides and quick changes of topic. The aim is to catch everything in one or two listens.
What You'll Learn
- Understand almost everything you hear, at any speed
- Follow asides, idioms and quick changes of topic
- Tell apart fine shades of meaning
- Catch specialist vocabulary from many fields
- Transcribe whole segments accurately after one listen
- Time Estimate
- About 1,000–1,200 hours of guided learning in total (Cambridge English estimate)
- Skills You'll Master
- Understand with ease almost everything you hear
- Next Level
- C2 is the top CEFR level. Keep it with regular listening to varied, unscripted English
What is C2 Level?
C2 is the highest level of the CEFR. You can understand virtually everything you hear or read, summarise information from different sources in a coherent account, and express yourself spontaneously and precisely, telling apart finer shades of meaning even in complex situations.