1 00:00:00,770 --> 00:00:01,080 Okay. 2 00:00:01,130 --> 00:00:06,870 This is a sample speaking test and Cazoo is going to join us today. 3 00:00:06,890 --> 00:00:07,970 How are you doing today? 4 00:00:08,690 --> 00:00:09,860 Great, thank you. 5 00:00:10,130 --> 00:00:10,580 All right. 6 00:00:10,580 --> 00:00:11,660 Let's go ahead and get started. 7 00:00:11,660 --> 00:00:16,430 I'm going to walk you through parts one, two and three of the exam, and then we're going to have a 8 00:00:16,430 --> 00:00:21,440 short pause for me to look at my notes and then I'll come back and give you an evaluation. 9 00:00:22,190 --> 00:00:22,550 Okay. 10 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:26,720 So in part number one, I have just a few interview questions for you. 11 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:27,890 Okay. 12 00:00:27,890 --> 00:00:29,720 So first of all, where are you from? 13 00:00:31,260 --> 00:00:39,660 I'm from Taiwan, an island country in East Asia, where our neighboring country includes China, Japan 14 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:40,460 and Philippines. 15 00:00:40,470 --> 00:00:44,070 And I'm born in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. 16 00:00:45,930 --> 00:00:49,260 And are you a student or do you have a job? 17 00:00:51,670 --> 00:00:52,870 Well, actually, both. 18 00:00:52,870 --> 00:01:00,730 I work as a freelance designer and I study Arabic because I actually live in Egypt for I learn Arabic 19 00:01:00,730 --> 00:01:02,680 for integrating in society. 20 00:01:03,070 --> 00:01:13,240 In fact, I put more effort into studying Arabic because while Arabic is truly a sophisticated, sophisticated 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,710 language, I can only hold a conversation after ten months of learning. 22 00:01:18,660 --> 00:01:19,190 Okay. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,040 And so I'll ask you a couple of questions about your studying, then. 24 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,310 Why did you choose to study Arabic? 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,820 Because I have no choice. 26 00:01:32,110 --> 00:01:39,700 Currently I live in Egypt with my husband and Egypt and Arabic is the only language I can speak in this 27 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:40,400 country. 28 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:46,720 I need to master this language for interpreting for social linguists, local people. 29 00:01:48,090 --> 00:01:48,490 Okay. 30 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:51,090 And is it a difficult language to study? 31 00:01:51,870 --> 00:01:53,340 Absolutely. 32 00:01:53,370 --> 00:02:00,420 While many statistic reveals reveal that Arabic is one of the toughest language in the world. 33 00:02:00,990 --> 00:02:09,680 I completely agree with that, because while first of all is completely different from my native language, 34 00:02:09,690 --> 00:02:18,690 second is, well, the grammar, the grammar, the Arabic grammar is very sophisticated and complicated. 35 00:02:19,140 --> 00:02:20,760 I can hardly master it. 36 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:22,360 All right. 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,050 And I'll have a quick question about your housing. 38 00:02:26,230 --> 00:02:32,980 What's the difference between your housing now and the housing that you lived in as a child? 39 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:36,700 Wow. 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,300 I currently live in an apartment. 41 00:02:43,330 --> 00:02:51,070 I would say the most different things from the most different thing from the house I'm living now, 42 00:02:51,070 --> 00:02:59,830 from the one I live in childhood, is that the one I live now is much bigger because I was born, as 43 00:02:59,830 --> 00:03:01,750 I say, I was born in Taiwan. 44 00:03:01,750 --> 00:03:05,170 And wow, Taiwan is a small country. 45 00:03:05,170 --> 00:03:07,090 We have very limited space. 46 00:03:07,090 --> 00:03:10,750 So my house in Taiwan was really tiny. 47 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:13,200 Okay. 48 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,870 And what would be your ideal house in the future? 49 00:03:17,170 --> 00:03:18,310 Wow. 50 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:29,910 Personally, I would say my dream house would be like it was to have an elevator in the building because 51 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:39,300 currently I live in an apartment at fourth floor and I have to climb this stage, kind of climb the 52 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:44,010 stairs, stairs every day, which is pretty tiring. 53 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:45,720 All right. 54 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:51,720 We're going to move on and talk about we're going to move on and we're going to talk about water sports. 55 00:03:52,410 --> 00:03:53,040 Well, there's sports. 56 00:03:53,460 --> 00:03:54,060 Yeah, water. 57 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:54,810 Sports. 58 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,480 Have you ever played water sports? 59 00:03:58,050 --> 00:03:59,010 Yeah, sure. 60 00:03:59,070 --> 00:04:07,020 Well, I can tell you one interesting is that we must we must master swimming in Taiwan before graduating 61 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:08,370 from junior high school. 62 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:13,020 Because Taiwan is an island, we are surrounded by the ocean. 63 00:04:13,020 --> 00:04:16,920 So there are so many accidents have happened. 64 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:23,730 Walter, how is that innovation or accident at the beach? 65 00:04:23,730 --> 00:04:24,720 So. 66 00:04:25,050 --> 00:04:36,090 Well, I started I started to learn water, sports, water activity at my age of eight or nine. 67 00:04:38,730 --> 00:04:39,000 All right. 68 00:04:39,090 --> 00:04:42,780 And our water sports popular in your country. 69 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:44,850 Definitely. 70 00:04:44,850 --> 00:04:45,670 Absolutely. 71 00:04:45,690 --> 00:04:46,350 Well. 72 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:52,760 As I say, it's popular because we have a lot of water. 73 00:04:52,780 --> 00:04:58,270 We have a lot of rivers, oceans, just to name a few. 74 00:04:58,270 --> 00:05:07,630 But we are also forced to learn, to learn, learn, swim in or like, as you say, water activities 75 00:05:07,870 --> 00:05:10,570 in the water area, areas, something like that. 76 00:05:10,570 --> 00:05:12,250 So it's very popular indeed. 77 00:05:12,730 --> 00:05:13,180 All right. 78 00:05:13,180 --> 00:05:17,800 And did you play did you like to play in the water as a child? 79 00:05:20,230 --> 00:05:31,810 When I was a kid, I truly enjoyed playing in the water with my friends and family because, well, 80 00:05:31,870 --> 00:05:36,320 sing, sing, sings are really easy, easier in the water. 81 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:42,220 Everything's everything is like all of the gravity. 82 00:05:42,220 --> 00:05:43,780 Everything is light in the water. 83 00:05:43,780 --> 00:05:44,800 We can do a lot of things. 84 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:52,150 We can even lift heavy in the water, which is pretty interesting for me, which was very interesting 85 00:05:52,150 --> 00:05:53,140 for me as a kid. 86 00:05:54,460 --> 00:05:54,780 Okay. 87 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:57,640 And now we're going to move on and talk about technology. 88 00:05:58,390 --> 00:05:58,900 Okay. 89 00:05:59,080 --> 00:05:59,650 All right. 90 00:05:59,980 --> 00:06:06,910 Did you use any gadgets on a regular basis or do you I'm sorry, do you use any gadgets on a regular 91 00:06:06,910 --> 00:06:07,720 basis? 92 00:06:10,210 --> 00:06:18,820 Well, personally, I only use I only possess a mobile and a laptop, so. 93 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:20,090 Inside. 94 00:06:20,090 --> 00:06:20,990 Do you use it a lot? 95 00:06:20,990 --> 00:06:27,170 Because as I mentioned before, I work as a graphic, a graphic designer. 96 00:06:27,170 --> 00:06:33,770 I have to use my advice as to work on it, to communicate with my clients. 97 00:06:33,770 --> 00:06:38,690 So it's it's unavoidable in my life. 98 00:06:39,170 --> 00:06:39,510 Okay. 99 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,110 And how often do you use the Internet? 100 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:59,420 I feel shameful to say that I, I think I use maybe 8 to 10 hours each day for Internet because. 101 00:06:59,690 --> 00:07:00,470 Wow. 102 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:07,600 We are actually stuck at home because of the the epidemic. 103 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,320 So I rely on Internet much more than before. 104 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:18,580 And I would like to I would like to change, but I really have not that much choice is at home. 105 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:20,730 Okay. 106 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,930 And have you ever taken a course to improve your technology skills? 107 00:07:27,070 --> 00:07:27,730 Sure. 108 00:07:29,020 --> 00:07:36,900 I think we are blessed to born in this era that we can learn a lot, a lot of things on Internet. 109 00:07:36,970 --> 00:07:43,750 There are so many platforms like Udemy or, well, domestic. 110 00:07:44,050 --> 00:07:49,030 A lot of tutorial, tutorial platforms. 111 00:07:49,030 --> 00:07:52,460 And we can even learn some things for free on YouTube. 112 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:53,700 So yes, I do. 113 00:07:53,710 --> 00:07:57,340 I do learn a lot of new skills on Internet.