Say it like it’s 1938.
Hear a line from a real radio broadcast. Say it back. The needle shows how close you got.
Runs in your browser. You’ll need a microphone.
A Tale of Two Cities
A lesson is five lines.
Pick a broadcast and work through it five lines at a time. Your place is saved, so you can stop whenever you like and carry on from the same line.
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Listen
Play the original clip, or slow it down to catch every sound.
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Say it back
Tap record and repeat the line. A level meter shows your microphone is hearing you.
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See where it slipped
Every word is underlined green, yellow or red, and you get one tip for the sound to fix first.
A score you can act on.
The dial gives one overall score. Under each word, a colour shows how clearly it came through. Then one tip names the sound to work on, so you know what to repeat.
Hope has quite departed from my breast I write these words
82 · Almost there. A few sounds to tighten up.
Work on “write”, the word underlined in red.
15 broadcasts, 408 lines.
All from Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air, 1938. Start with any of them.
- A Tale of Two Cities193827 lines
- Abraham Lincoln193825 lines
- Around the World in 80 Days193833 lines
- Dracula193829 lines
- Hell On Ice193829 lines
- Julius Caesar Rehearsal193829 lines
- Seventeen193821 lines
- The 39 Steps193824 lines
- The Affairs of Anatol193827 lines
- The Count of Monte Cristo193830 lines
- The Immortal Sherlock Holmes193830 lines
- The Man Who Was Thursday193830 lines
- Three Short Stories I M a Fool the Open Window My Little Boy193826 lines
- Treasure Island193825 lines
- War of the Worlds193823 lines
Pick a broadcast and say the first line.
Choose a daily goal of 3 to 20 takes, and keep your streak going.
Start a lessonPrefer your own words? Try Practice, echo a broadcast in Echo, or map your vowels on the Vowel Chart.