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2-Minute Speaking Check
Tell me about yourself and what you usually do in your free time.
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Goal
Get comfortable hearing your own voice in English.
The biggest barrier for most people is not knowledge — it is the moment of opening your mouth and accepting that you will sound clumsy for a while. These short, low-pressure exercises are built to get you past that moment, again and again, until it stops being a moment at all.
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Tell me about yourself and what you usually do in your free time.
Give 90 seconds of unbroken advice to yourself ten years ago.
Describe every object in your bag or pockets, one by one, for a minute.
Describe every item of clothing you're wearing, piece by piece, for a minute.
Name everything you can see in red, then blue, then green — keep talking the whole minute.
Tell the story of your life so far in two minutes of unbroken speech, choosing what to include.
Describe what you can see, hear, smell, feel and taste right now, in detail, without stopping.
Tell the story of advice you were given, chose to ignore, and how that turned out.
Tell the story of a day you made a decision that changed your direction.
Tell the story of a day recently that turned out really well.
Tell the story of a minor health scare and what it made you change, if anything.
Tell the story of a time you learned something the hard way.