Your English Level - Is Your TOEFL or IELTS Score Important?

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  Welcome to the listening time podcast.

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  Hey everybody, this is Connor and you're listening to episode 225 of the listening time podcast.

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  I hope you're doing well and that you're excited to practice your English listening comprehension with another episode.

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  Today, I want to talk about the tests that people take to evaluate their English level,

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  such as the TOEFL test and the IELTS test.

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  There are other ones, of course.

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  These are the two most famous ones, probably the ones that I'm most familiar with.

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  And I want to talk about whether or not the score that you get on these tests is important in determining your English level.

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  So I'm sure this is an interesting topic for all of you.

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  I'm sure some of you have taken the TOEFL test or the IELTS test depending on the country you live in or your career,

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  your school.

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  etc. So this is something relevant to many of you, I think,

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  and I want to talk about the importance of these tests.

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  And the reason why I want to talk about this today is

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  because I recently had a conversation with an English teacher for my US Conversations podcast and he has a lot of experience training English learners to pass these types of tests.

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  So he is somewhat of an expert here, if I can say that.

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  And I was asking him about these tests and

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  if people's scores on these tests reflected their real life level,

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  their level of English.

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  So I thought his answer was pretty interesting and I'll talk about that in just a bit.

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