Speaking Sample is the last question in the Duolingo English Test, and it will become a scored question from 1 May 2023 onwards. Therefore, we have stronger reasons to try harder to aim for the highest scores possible because when you send your certified scores to any institution, they will review your Speaking Sample besides your Writing Sample.
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Some Speaking Sample questions you may see as follows:
Describe a story that you enjoy. It can be a book, a movie, a TV show—any story. What do you like best about the story? How do you think it could be better?
Describe the geography of the country where you currently live. How does the geography of the country affect its people and its culture?
Who is a person you think you have impacted in your life? What impact have you had on the person, and how?
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This question appears only one time during your Duolingo English Test, and you need to speak for 1 to 3 minutes about the given topic. Every Speaking Sample question has several minor questions, so your job is to answer each of them. Let’s analyze all of the Speaking Sample questions.
1. Describe a story that you enjoy. It can be a book, a movie, a TV show—any story. What do you like best about the story? How do you think it could be better?
We have the following small questions:
Describe a book, movie, or TV show story that you enjoy.
What do you like best about the story?
How do you think it could be better?
2. Describe the geography of the country where you currently live. How does the geography of the country affect its people and its culture?
We have the following small questions:
Describe the geography of the country where you currently live.
How does the geography of the country affect its people?
How does the geography of the country affect its culture?
3. Who is a person you think you have impacted in your life? What impact have you had on the person, and how?
We have the following small questions:
Who is a person you think you have impacted in your life?
What impact have you had on this person?
How have you had an impact on this person?
After re-organizing all questions, do they remind you of other DET question types? You nailed it! We are talking about Read then Speak, which has a similar format to Speaking Sample questions.
All in all, they are Speaking challenges that you need to read and then speak to answer all questions. Therefore, please check out our Strategies for Read then Speak questions to find detailed strategies and how to get your DET Ready in a short time.
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If you wish to practice Speaking Sample or any question types, let’s go to DET Practice Platform, create your FREE account and experience everything in one place. DET Practice Platform offers thousands of similar practicing questions to the real tests, so you can comfortably practice anytime, anywhere. More essentially, you will receive instant feedback when you practice Speaking and Writing questions; we evaluate your practicing answers based on some grading elements, including Fluency, Lexical Sophistication, Lexical Diversity, Grammatical Accuracy, and Acoustic Features (Pronunciation).
The reason we developed the instant feedback feature is that the Duolingo English Test evaluates your English Proficiency based on the same elements. As a result, you can learn from your mistakes, improve your skills, and achieve your desired scores much easier.
