In a dictée, you listen to a longer passage, and the challenge is to transcribe what the person wrote. They're also used for grammar practice. In that case, th

In a dictée, you listen to a longer passage, and the challenge is to transcribe what the person wrote. They're also used for grammar practice. In that case, the challenge is that there might be many written forms of the sentence that would be pronounced the same as what was said, but only one is grammatically correct.