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07/15/2013 03:19:52 PM · #1 |
Everybody likes a test, right?
this one will tell you where you stand in how many English words you know.
Test Your Vocabulary.
Would I post this if my score was a low one?
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07/15/2013 03:38:27 PM · #2 |
I should spend more time here
Message edited by author 2013-07-15 15:40:10. |
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07/15/2013 03:46:29 PM · #3 |
Ha! I wonder how many of us could score that well if the test was in
French, Dutch, German, or perhaps Walloon, there in Belgium!
Not bad,  Nadine_Vb. Not bad. |
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07/15/2013 03:49:28 PM · #4 |
Same with me, same range: My Score |
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07/15/2013 03:49:38 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Ha! I wonder how many of us could score that well if the test was in
French, Dutch, German, or perhaps Walloon, there in Belgium!
Not bad, Nadine_Vb. Not bad. |
That's very good -- about twice the average for non-native English speakers. I'm a little dubious about it -- there were a bunch of really obscure words which I think skew the results toward the low side. |
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07/15/2013 03:53:08 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Ha! I wonder how many of us could score that well if the test was in
French, Dutch, German, or perhaps Walloon, there in Belgium!
Not bad, Nadine_Vb. Not bad. |
That's very good -- about twice the average for non-native English speakers. I'm a little dubious about it -- there were a bunch of really obscure words which I think skew the results toward the low side. |
Normally I'm quite good in obscure words, but it didn't help me this time :-) |
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07/15/2013 03:53:42 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Ha! I wonder how many of us could score that well if the test was in
French, Dutch, German, or perhaps Walloon, there in Belgium!
Not bad, Nadine_Vb. Not bad. |
That's very good -- about twice the average for non-native English speakers. I'm a little dubious about it -- there were a bunch of really obscure words which I think skew the results toward the low side.
ETA: I *might* be able to score 2000 on a German test ... :-)
Ja, ich spreche kleine English ... |
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07/15/2013 03:56:27 PM · #8 |
Alice is wordier than I. This comes as no surprise to me ;-)
ETA: This is an interesting page, especially this:
Originally posted by testyourvocab:
Now, remember that these percentiles are not for the population as a whole, but rather just those who have taken the test online. Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole — it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet! |
Message edited by author 2013-07-15 16:00:57. |
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07/15/2013 04:02:14 PM · #9 |
| I can't remember which SAT score came first, English or Math? |
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07/15/2013 04:15:39 PM · #10 |
Low man on the English totem so far...
(bugged the heck out of me -- a number of words that I knew I knew... but couldn't really place. Bunch of words that were quite intriguing. :)
Message edited by author 2013-07-15 16:46:12. |
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07/15/2013 04:25:00 PM · #11 |
mine
Looks like I have the highest score so far. <"¤"> |
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07/15/2013 04:30:32 PM · #12 |
| I never realized there were so many three letter words. Here |
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07/15/2013 04:41:53 PM · #13 |
Too bad for a non mother tongue?
Test |
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07/15/2013 04:54:32 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Ha! I wonder how many of us could score that well if the test was in
French, Dutch, German, or perhaps Walloon, there in Belgium!
Not bad, Nadine_Vb. Not bad. |
Walloon would be a disaster for me as well.
My boss is from Charleroi, in the Walloon part of Belgium, and when he starts his little "patois" on me I'm lost.
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07/15/2013 04:56:36 PM · #15 |
| I'd really want to try something similar in Italian... |
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07/15/2013 05:10:54 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Alexkc:
Too bad for a non mother tongue?
Test |
Not to bad? Not bad at all I would say.
We know about the half of the words known by native speakers while, following their information - quote "foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words."
(Didn't notice this part when I completed my "test" but  GeneralE pointed it out)
Italian? The very lyrical language of Umberto Tozzi and Andrea Bocelli to me, but I don't speak a word Italian
German? Since German and Dutch are related, I understand the main stream of a conversation, I know some words (I guess just enough for not getting lost or die from starvation in Germany) but having a whole conversation with someone in German? No, not at all.
Message edited by author 2013-07-15 17:11:15. |
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07/15/2013 05:20:48 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Nadine_Vb:
German? Since German and Dutch are related, I understand the main stream of a conversation, I know some words (I guess just enough for not getting lost or die from starvation in Germany) but having a whole conversation with someone in German? No, not at all. |
I think "Wo ist die toilette?" is the only really essential phrase ... ;-) |
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07/15/2013 05:30:06 PM · #18 |
| LOL, seems indeed one of the most important phrases |
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07/15/2013 05:33:22 PM · #19 |
32,700
most depressing were the words I had forgotten |
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07/15/2013 05:34:48 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
mine
Looks like I have the highest score so far. <"¤"> |
No, but your English is better than your Math! |
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07/15/2013 05:44:20 PM · #21 |
| 34,500. didn't know that whole last column. |
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07/15/2013 05:55:45 PM · #22 |
| 27,700 - I was hard on myself and left out words where I wasn't sure of the exact definition. |
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07/15/2013 05:57:03 PM · #23 |
29,500
half that if i have to spell them to prove it...
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07/15/2013 06:52:59 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Pug-H:
mine
Looks like I have the highest score so far. <"¤"> |
No, but your English is better than your Math! |
You're right. I gave up Maths when they tried to teach me three-dimensional trigonomics, or whatever it was.
Actually, I mis-remembered the original post as 35 thousand + something. |
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07/15/2013 06:57:19 PM · #25 |
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