Hello and welcome to this prepare for Eilts speaking video, and in this video, I'm going to look at
the part two topic.
Describe a time when you first talked in a foreign language, you should say where you were, who you
were with, what you talked about, and explain how you felt about it.
So I'm going to describe the true story of when I went to Korea and tried to speak in Korean.
Now, all you need to do for this topic, if you're going to use lots of this model answer is just change
the language and the location.
So let's take a look at the model answer I didn't need to think long and hard about this topic as it's
still fresh in my memory, because to be perfectly honest, it was a bit embarrassing, to say the least.
Last year, I visited Korea for the first time with my family.
I'm really into Korean music and food and it has been on my bucket list of places to go for a long time.
Anyway, I've been studying Korean for a few months or so before I went, and I thought I would be able
to do the basics, such as exchanging pleasantries, but no, I overestimated my abilities or rather
my confidence.
The problem was that it's so nerve racking trying to speak in a foreign language for the first time.
And I just froze and I couldn't get the words out.
For the most part, it wasn't a problem because in Seoul, the majority of people that we conversed
with spoke English.
However, there was one time when we needed to get back to our hotel and took a taxi.
The taxi driver didn't speak a word of English, so I was forced to speak in Korean while we were travelling.
He kept trying to talk to me and I could understand the gist, but I couldn't respond in full sentences.
So I gave him lots of one word answers.
As for how I feel about it, it made me more determined to study Korean so that the next time I go,
I can at the very least hold a conversation with someone.
Watching a YouTube video or working from a textbook is very different from having to speak with a native
speaker in the flesh, though.
OK, so let's take a look at some of the language in this answer.
I didn't need to think long and hard about this topic.
Very useful for you to use for other part.
Two topics to think long and hard about means to take a long time to make a decision.
So I'm saying it didn't take me long to think about what to say.
It's still fresh in my memory if something is still fresh in your memory, you can still remember it
clearly, to be perfectly honest.
Remember to use this instead of just saying honestly or truthfully, to be perfectly honest, to say
the least, we use when we're saying something and we're saying I'm not exaggerating.
It was a bit embarrassing, to say the least.
What I'm actually saying, it was very embarrassing.
I'm really into meaning I like.
It had been on my bucket list, it had been we're using past perfect here because I have now been to
Korea.
So at this point, I'm using the past purrfect to describe another action in the past.
That was before going to Korea.
It had been on my bucket list.
Your bucket list is a list of things that you want to do before you die, such as swimming with dolphins
or going to Disneyland bucket list.
Anyway, I've been studying I've been studying past perfect continuous, if you're aiming for seven,
eight or nine, you need a good range of grammatical phrases and using the past perfect continuous is
a really complex tense.
I'm saying before going to Korea, I had been studying.
So that's where we can use the past.
Perfect continuous.
A few months or so means like two or three, four months.
It's a bit more complex than just saying for a few months, a few months or so.
The basics, the basics means the most simple things, such as saying hello, goodbye and thank you.
Exchanging pleasantries, small talk.
These are things like having a short conversation, hello, how are you?
I'm fine, thanks.
And you to exchange pleasantries.
Small talk.
Overestimated, when you overestimate, it means you guessing about something, but you guess too big,
greater in amount than it actually is, I thought, yes, I'll be able to do this, but I overestimated
my abilities or rather my confidence here.
I'm using rather like saying, on the contrary, it wasn't my abilities, it was my confidence.
It's so nerve racking.
And here there are two spellings you can use both and both are accepted.
Nerve racking is something that's very stressful.
You become very anxious, very worried, nerve racking.
I just froze.
This is from the verb to freeze, and when you freeze, you cannot move.
I froze and I couldn't get the words out.
I couldn't speak for the most part.
Mostly we conversed with to converse with means to talk to, didn't speak a word of meaning.
He couldn't speak any English.
I was forced to.
I had to.
There was no other choice.
I was forced to remember to use some past continuous while we were travelling.
The gist, the gist is the main part of what he was saying, but not the details.
I couldn't respond, I couldn't reply in full sentences, so a complete sentence.
And finally, to introduce my last bullet point, as for how I feel about it, it made me more determined.
If you are determined, you really want to do something.
At the very least, meaning this is the minimum that I want to be able to do, at the very least hold
a conversation, so the minimum I want to do is to be able to have a conversation.
In the flesh means in real life in person.
I hope you found this video useful.
Thank you very much for watching.