C2 listening practice with YouTube videos
178 YouTube videos, from How It's Made factory clips to history and science explainers, split into short segments for dictation. Levels B1 to C2.
Level
- Category
- YouTube Videos
- Level
- C2 Proficient
- Lessons
- 10
- Segments
- 999
- Levels in category
- B1–C2
Browse 10 Lessons
10 videos
- 1 The Buddha 75 segments Start 75 segments
- 2 The Stoics 76 segments Start 76 segments
- 3 Attack of the Killer Fungi 23 segments Start 23 segments
- 4 Parasite in the Poo 24 segments Start 24 segments
- 5 The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions 218 segments Start 218 segments
- 6 Harry Potter 29 segments Start 29 segments
- 7 [Newsthink] The Billionaire Who Gave Away His Entire Fortune 178 segments Start 178 segments
- 8 Don't Try 117 segments Start 117 segments
- 9 The Philosophy of Franz Kafka 123 segments Start 123 segments
- 10 History of ideas: Capitalism 136 segments Start 136 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.