TOEFL and Duolingo Speaking

Beat the clock on every TOEFL and Duolingo speaking task, with a full answer every time.

4.8
(2,115 ratings)
3.8k learnersIntermediate 8 lessons · 80 min English + हिंदी support
Nandini Rao · The Stopwatch Coach
+2 more tutors

What you’ll learn

  • Give a complete TOEFL independent answer with opinion, two reasons and one example inside forty-five seconds
  • Summarise a campus announcement and a student's reaction in sixty seconds without reading back word for word
  • Explain an academic concept and connect it to the lecture's example in a clear two-part structure
  • Speak for a full ninety seconds on a Duolingo topic or photo without stopping or repeating yourself
  • Recover from a blank in under three seconds using a holding phrase and keep the answer on structure
  • Pace a mixed set of timed tasks and finish each one within two seconds of the beep

This course is for

Study-abroad applicants taking TOEFL iBT or the Duolingo English Test. Drill the four TOEFL iBT speaking tasks and the Duolingo English Test speaking items against the real timer: fifteen seconds of prep and forty-five seconds of answer for the independent task, the integrated campus and academic tasks, Duolingo's read-then-speak and speak-about-the-photo items. Each lesson teaches one answer skeleton, then an AI examiner runs timed rounds, counts you down and scores you on the real rubric lines. Ends with a timed capstone set of TOEFL and Duolingo tasks.

Intermediate

level

You can hold a basic conversation but hesitate, translate in your head, or freeze under pressure. We fix that.

Course 8 of 9 in the English Exams track.

Inside every lesson

Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “The Independent Task: Fifteen Seconds to Think, Forty-five to Speak” — runs.

  1. 1 min

    Warm-up & goal

    Tutor greets you and states today’s goal.

  2. 2 min

    Learn the patterns

    Learn 2–3 sentence patterns and repeat them aloud.

  3. 5 min

    Live roleplay

    Live roleplay — you do most of the talking.

  4. 1.5 min

    Corrections & retry

    Two specific corrections, then one retry.

  5. 30 sec

    Wrap-up & preview

    One thing you did well and a preview of next time.

Syllabus

Lessons unlock one after another. Completed lessons show your score; you can revisit any lesson.

Your AI tutors

Same lessons, different personalities. Pick one now or switch any time.

Nandini Rao

The Stopwatch Coach

Lead tutorYour pick

Brisk TOEFL and Duolingo trainer at a Hyderabad test-prep centre, mid 30s

Best suited for: Learners who know enough English but freeze when a timer starts, run out of words at thirty seconds, or ramble past the beep

5.0
3.1k
Harpreet Gill

The Encouraging Examiner

Warm CELPIP and Duolingo coach from Chandigarh who moved to Brampton and back, early 40s

Best suited for: Punjabi and Hindi-first learners heading to Canada who have the ideas but lose marks on organisation, detail and finishing in time

4.8
5.2k
Sameer Kulkarni

The Honest Officer

Former study-abroad and visa-prep counsellor from Pune, late 40s, plain-spoken and allergic to memorised scripts

Best suited for: Applicants who have memorised a paragraph for every question and need to learn to answer in one true sentence, pause, and wait

4.7
4.1k

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