Okay.
This is a sample speaking test and Cazoo is going to join us today.
How are you doing today?
Great, thank you.
All right.
Let's go ahead and get started.
I'm going to walk you through parts one, two and three of the exam, and then we're going to have a
short pause for me to look at my notes and then I'll come back and give you an evaluation.
Okay.
So in part number one, I have just a few interview questions for you.
Okay.
So first of all, where are you from?
I'm from Taiwan, an island country in East Asia, where our neighboring country includes China, Japan
and Philippines.
And I'm born in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
And are you a student or do you have a job?
Well, actually, both.
I work as a freelance designer and I study Arabic because I actually live in Egypt for I learn Arabic
for integrating in society.
In fact, I put more effort into studying Arabic because while Arabic is truly a sophisticated, sophisticated
language, I can only hold a conversation after ten months of learning.
Okay.
And so I'll ask you a couple of questions about your studying, then.
Why did you choose to study Arabic?
Because I have no choice.
Currently I live in Egypt with my husband and Egypt and Arabic is the only language I can speak in this
country.
I need to master this language for interpreting for social linguists, local people.
Okay.
And is it a difficult language to study?
Absolutely.
While many statistic reveals reveal that Arabic is one of the toughest language in the world.
I completely agree with that, because while first of all is completely different from my native language,
second is, well, the grammar, the grammar, the Arabic grammar is very sophisticated and complicated.
I can hardly master it.
All right.
And I'll have a quick question about your housing.
What's the difference between your housing now and the housing that you lived in as a child?
Wow.
I currently live in an apartment.
I would say the most different things from the most different thing from the house I'm living now,
from the one I live in childhood, is that the one I live now is much bigger because I was born, as
I say, I was born in Taiwan.
And wow, Taiwan is a small country.
We have very limited space.
So my house in Taiwan was really tiny.
Okay.
And what would be your ideal house in the future?
Wow.
Personally, I would say my dream house would be like it was to have an elevator in the building because
currently I live in an apartment at fourth floor and I have to climb this stage, kind of climb the
stairs, stairs every day, which is pretty tiring.
All right.
We're going to move on and talk about we're going to move on and we're going to talk about water sports.
Well, there's sports.
Yeah, water.
Sports.
Have you ever played water sports?
Yeah, sure.
Well, I can tell you one interesting is that we must we must master swimming in Taiwan before graduating
from junior high school.
Because Taiwan is an island, we are surrounded by the ocean.
So there are so many accidents have happened.
Walter, how is that innovation or accident at the beach?
So.
Well, I started I started to learn water, sports, water activity at my age of eight or nine.
All right.
And our water sports popular in your country.
Definitely.
Absolutely.
Well.
As I say, it's popular because we have a lot of water.
We have a lot of rivers, oceans, just to name a few.
But we are also forced to learn, to learn, learn, swim in or like, as you say, water activities
in the water area, areas, something like that.
So it's very popular indeed.
All right.
And did you play did you like to play in the water as a child?
When I was a kid, I truly enjoyed playing in the water with my friends and family because, well,
sing, sing, sings are really easy, easier in the water.
Everything's everything is like all of the gravity.
Everything is light in the water.
We can do a lot of things.
We can even lift heavy in the water, which is pretty interesting for me, which was very interesting
for me as a kid.
Okay.
And now we're going to move on and talk about technology.
Okay.
All right.
Did you use any gadgets on a regular basis or do you I'm sorry, do you use any gadgets on a regular
basis?
Well, personally, I only use I only possess a mobile and a laptop, so.
Inside.
Do you use it a lot?
Because as I mentioned before, I work as a graphic, a graphic designer.
I have to use my advice as to work on it, to communicate with my clients.
So it's it's unavoidable in my life.
Okay.
And how often do you use the Internet?
I feel shameful to say that I, I think I use maybe 8 to 10 hours each day for Internet because.
Wow.
We are actually stuck at home because of the the epidemic.
So I rely on Internet much more than before.
And I would like to I would like to change, but I really have not that much choice is at home.
Okay.
And have you ever taken a course to improve your technology skills?
Sure.
I think we are blessed to born in this era that we can learn a lot, a lot of things on Internet.
There are so many platforms like Udemy or, well, domestic.
A lot of tutorial, tutorial platforms.
And we can even learn some things for free on YouTube.
So yes, I do.
I do learn a lot of new skills on Internet.