Dictation Meaning in English

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التعريف

Dictation is the act of saying words aloud for someone else to write down, or an exercise where you write what you hear, often used in language learning and classrooms.

الاستخدام والفروق الدقيقة

Mainly used in educational and language learning contexts. Common phrases include 'give a dictation', 'do a dictation', or 'dictation exercise'. Not used for official record-taking (that's 'transcription').

• Spanish: dictado
• Portuguese (BR): ditado
• Portuguese (PT): ditado
• Chinese (Simplified): 听写
• Chinese (Traditional): 聽寫
• Hindi: श्रुतलेख
• Arabic: إملاء
• Bengali: ডিকটেশন - শ্রুতিলিপি
• Russian: диктант
• Japanese: ディクテーション
• Vietnamese: bài chính tả - đọc chính tả
• Korean: 받아쓰기
• Turkish: dikte
• Urdu: املا
• Indonesian: dikte

جمل نموذجية

The teacher gave us a dictation today.

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Please write the dictation carefully.

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We have a dictation test every Friday.

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I always make a few mistakes during dictation exercises.

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Can you help me prepare for tomorrow’s dictation?

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Listening to dictation really improves my spelling.

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