Community / Ask anything

Speaking Task 1 — I forget the sentence before I can say it back

If the sentence is short I'm fine, but as soon as it gets longer I lose the back half. Taking notes makes it worse because I write too slowly. Anyone who got 5.0+ — how did you actually practise this?

3 replies

Shadowing helped me more than notes. Play it once, say it back immediately, then check. Don't write anything down for the first week.
저도 같은 문제였는데 문장을 의미 단위로 끊어서 기억하니까 훨씬 나아졌어요. 통째로 외우려고 하면 무조건 뒷부분이 날아가요.
Echo Drop in the arcade is this exact drill on a timer — that's what got me over it.

This is the DreamArcade community— students preparing for the 2026 TOEFL, asking questions and pulling each other's answers apart. Reading is open to everyone and posting is free. Find out where your score is.

More in Ask anything