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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2011 18:19:50 GMT
Very interesting test that I lifted from a Lonely Planet thread. Here it is.I tried it twice, once as a native English speaker and once as a native French speaker. It gave me a score of something like 36,500 as an English speaker but 44,500 if I said that French was my first language. |
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 5, 2011 20:25:14 GMT
Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 22'400
There were words I was familiar with, but wasn't totally sure of the definition, so I didn't tick them. interesting as I know I have an excellent level when it comes to spelling and I am sure some people will think they know a word but the spelling links to a more complex word that they don't know they don't know!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2011 20:35:18 GMT
I know that I made most of my vocabulary progress in the last year of high school. Our English teacher was obsessed with the subject and gave us a list of 30 or 40 new words to learn every week. And I have to admit that I have remembered most of them, even if I have only used perhaps 15% of them later in life. How often do you get a chance to use an excellent word like "valetudinarian," for example?
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 5, 2011 21:08:21 GMT
how come you don't use that word everyday, Kerouac?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 6, 2011 1:02:07 GMT
He wrote me that in a PM just last week.  I can't resist that kind of test, although they're always rather chastening. I got a score of 37,100. There were some words on it that I did not recognize at all. Did anyone else get a kick out of the fact that there was some rather clunky grammar & one misuse of a word in the survey? What year were you born in?
What month were you born in?
What gender are you? |
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 6, 2011 14:13:21 GMT
I rather think there was at least one completely invented word in each selection, just to catch out people who tick everything.
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Post by lola on Aug 7, 2011 1:08:20 GMT
Today I learned a new word in a book review: allotrion, an idle pursuit that distracts from serious responsibilities.
Freud eventually found the study of of cocaine an allotrion that he was eager to conclude.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 7, 2011 13:28:21 GMT
ha! lola! allotrion... is like APIAS (which distracts me from my studies)
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 11, 2011 14:02:28 GMT
I got 34300 and 34300.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2023 15:13:58 GMT
I am clearly losing my English. Taking this test 11 years later, I only scored 35403 (after 36500 the first time).
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Post by whatagain on Jul 10, 2023 17:12:34 GMT
28477 helped by a lot of french words actually...
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