Interview with a TOEFL Teacher (Score: 119). Part Two!

[@asatf2588]

"I often paused the video to write down your recommendations and take them into consideration. I truly appreciate your effort. Thank you."

[@aimanramadan912]

Hi Mich, and thank you for the great interview, your guest, Mr. Han-Joon, was exceptional. My question is, where can we find Korean vocab books.

[@Toeflresources]

Amazon has 'em. Start by looking for "Hackers Vocabulary."

[@yahyamurtazawi]

A bundle of thanks Michael for all the amazing videos. I want to say that I am welling to have speaking sessions with whoever out there for an extremely low price. Even lower than you mentioned. Maybe the first session to check out whether they like or not.🤛

[@Toeflresources]

Start by checking out Cambly.

[@zs7487]

Really good interview, thank you Michael for your initiative. Keep going💪🏽 I just have a question, Is there any way for ETS to provide test takers by a solid feedback for speaking/ writing questions to make test takers make some developments or is it something beyond our expectations😂

[@Toeflresources]

I think that is expecting too much. I don't think ETS will ever provide feedback on test-taker responses.

[@zs7487]

☹️😢

[@yahyamurtazawi]

I got a suggestion for you Michael How about Joseph Miranda from Notefull for an interview

[@Toeflresources]

Maybe!

[@JoeJoe-ob9eo]

If i were...., i would have been able.... Is this correct for if condition?

[@Toeflresources]

I think so.

[@anaxagorasanaxagorou7493]

no you need to use if i had been, i would have been .... this third conditional clause. michael goodine deleted his comment here haha he was wrong anw

[@Toeflresources]

@@anaxagorasanaxagorou7493 What are you going on about?

[@anaxagorasanaxagorou7493]

@@Toeflresources i thought u deleted this. my bad

[@MohammedAqar]

Do the human rater and the e-rater (AI) produce the same score in the writing section?

[@Toeflresources]

No. They produce scores independently of each other, and the scores could be different.

[@MohammedAqar]

((It is important to remember that the e-rater and the human rater usually produce the same score when evaluating essays so the "averaging out" is somewhat irrelevant)) What is the meaning of this saying please? 🤔

[@Toeflresources]

That's something I wrote five years ago. I don't know if it is totally accurate, still. But the point is that the e-rater and the human rater produce very similar scores.@@MohammedAqar

[@mariamawitzekarias1107]

I wonder what happens if you curse by accident?

[@Toeflresources]

Only one way to find out!

[@zs7487]

Also, I feel it is really stupid from ETS to limit non native speakers’ ability yo just reach 23 as a max score. Do u feel the same way?

[@CORVETE300]

23 of what?

[@Toeflresources]

That's not really what he's saying. He just means that students in Korea have a hard time getting above 23.

[@zs7487]

Is there any specific reason behind that?

[@Toeflresources]

No. It is a hard test, basically. There are a lot of things that could go wrong. For some people it relates to intonation. For others it is a speaking rate thing. For others something else.