Questions learners ask before the telc exam.

You need at least 45 of 75 oral points (60%). The exam has three parts — introduction interview, topic discussion and planning dialogue — graded on task completion, expressiveness, grammar and pronunciation. The highest-impact preparation is rehearsing all three parts out loud, repeatedly, before exam day.

Teil 2 themes rotate around everyday life: health and food, travel, living situations, work, media, celebrations, free time, learning. You get a short text or statement on the theme and discuss it with your partner — so preparing themes (not scripts) is the right strategy.

Part 1 (Kontaktaufnahme) is the most predictable part: name, origin, home, family, work or studies, languages, free time and travel — asked as a conversation with your exam partner, with follow-up questions to test spontaneity.

Four phrase groups carry the whole planning dialogue: making suggestions (Wie wäre es, wenn…), agreeing (Das ist eine gute Idee), disagreeing politely with alternatives (Ich fände es besser, wenn…) and closing with a decision (Dann machen wir das so).

300 points total: 225 written + 75 oral. You must reach 60% in each part separately — at least 135 written and 45 oral points. A strong written result cannot rescue a failed speaking exam, and vice versa.

Naturalization requires B1 German. telc Deutsch B1, Goethe-Zertifikat B1 and a DTZ certificate with B1 result are the commonly accepted proofs — confirm details with your local Einbürgerungsbehörde.

Official Modelltests are free and excellent for the written sections, but a PDF can't hold a conversation. To mock the oral exam you need a partner — human or AI — plus the real structure and the four grading criteria.

Three short parts: introduce yourself (often with spelling and a number), ask and answer simple everyday questions from question cards, and make or respond to requests from picture cards.

A short presentation on a personal-experience theme (book, film, trip, event, person), a discussion based on a short text, and a joint planning task — with B2-level expectations for arguments and nuance.

Shadowing, reading aloud, self-talk and recording yourself work well solo — but they can't train real-time interaction. An AI conversation partner closes that gap with follow-up questions and responses.