Sprechen-Trainer

Laut sprechen, aufnehmen, einmal anhören

Record yourself, or this page does nothing. Speaking is the one skill that cannot be rehearsed in your head - in your head you never say "ähm", never abandon a sentence halfway, never slip into English. On the recording you do all three, and hearing it once is worth ten silent run-throughs. Your phone's voice memo app is enough.

How to run one card

Read the cards, then start the timer and the recorder. Do not plan sentences first - the exam gives you about a minute of preparation, and that is what you should give yourself.
Do not stop when you stumble. Recovering mid-sentence is a marked skill. Breaking off and restarting is not.
Listen back once, with the checklist open. Tick only what you actually hear yourself do.
Note the two worst moments, then run the same card again immediately. The second take is usually a level better - that gap is what you are training.

What examiners actually mark

Criterion	What it means in practice
Aufgabenbewältigung	Did you cover every card? A card skipped costs more than a case ending missed.
Interaktion	In the paired parts: do you react, ask back, disagree, agree? A candidate who only delivers monologue loses here even with perfect German.
Flüssigkeit	Not speed - continuity. Long silences and restarts cost; fillers like also, na ja, ich würde sagen buy you time legitimately.
Wortschatz	Range, not rarity. Reusing gut eight times is the problem, not the absence of long words.
Grammatik	Errors that block understanding count; endings that do not obscure meaning cost little. Fix word order before you fix adjective endings.
Aussprache	Judged on intelligibility, not accent. The ones that genuinely mislead: ü vs. u, ie vs. ei, and final -e that gets swallowed.

Doing this with a partner

The A2 Teil 3 and B1 Teil 1 cards are negotiations - they need someone to push back. Speak both roles alone for the words, then ask your teaching agent to run the same card live and cold. Being interrupted is the part you cannot simulate.

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