Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Sprechen
Short drills on a single Teil, each marked by Felix, our AI examiner. Speak, or type — the transcript appears as you talk.
Two Teile, about 15 min per pair, taken with a partner in front of two examiners who mark independently, after 15 minutes of preparation on your own. Teil 1 is a prepared Vortrag: you choose one of two topics, speak for about four minutes with an Einleitung, a Hauptteil and a Schluss, and then take questions. Teil 2 is a discussion of one controversial question with your partner.
Two things are scored that candidates routinely forget. In Teil 1 you are expected to ask your partner a question after their talk — it is a marked item, not a courtesy. In Teil 2 the instructions ask you to sum up your position at the end, and the summary is one of the three things the task explicitly requires.
The notes are the other trap. You may use them, but the instruction says "frei sprechen" — reading a prepared text aloud is marked down under Kohärenz and Flüssigkeit no matter how good the text is. Practising the Vortrag out loud, from notes rather than from a script, is what this module actually needs.
Yes. Every Sprechen task here takes either a live transcript from your microphone or typed answers, and both get the same feedback — so you can work through the module on a train or in a shared room and still finish the exercise.
You are assessed on your own performance, and the pair is drawn at random precisely so it cannot be arranged. What does affect your marks is the interaction: responding to what your partner actually argued, rather than delivering a monologue beside them, is itself part of what is scored in Teil 2.
In the real exam, yes — Aussprache carries 16 of the 100 points across both Teile. Here it is deliberately not scored: the AI examiner works from a transcript, and a transcript cannot hear an accent. Every other criterion is marked, and the feedback says plainly that pronunciation is not among them.
