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The "should-I-study-X-language test" | ||
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 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6434 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 41 of 50 14 January 2008 at 6:23am | IP Logged |
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Interesting.. I get very peculiar set of results:
English - 14 German - 11 Esperanto - 7 Mandarin - 3 Italian - 14 Spanish - 13 Japanese - 12 Hebrew - 4 Perhaps I should drop Mandarin and Esperanto and take up Italian and Spanish instead. No, I like Esperanto and Mandarin too much to drop them. But one thing I notice is that for questions 8 - 11, all of your languages would get the same scores, as they only deal with "general motivation level" etc., not how much are you motivated to learn this "specific" language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 42 of 50 14 January 2008 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
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Number 10 (the one about how much time you would spend) can be answered differently for different languages. Generelly you might not want to spend too much time on languages you don't like or where you can't get enough interesting study materials. On the other hand someone who takes up an exotic language with a complicated writing system would probably be aware that such a language takes more time than a close relative of your native language.
And one quirky question more: the number of other non fluent languages you are working on right now depends of course on whether the one you are testing right now is included or not, - so the simple solution would be always to count the total number of non fluent languages. TYhe specific scores are less important. The test is probably thought as a help to decide which language should be the next, not to be used on languages you already are studying. But used in this way you could even 'diversify' question nr. 11 so that it indicated whether you were very intent on reaching fluency or not in a specific language. The main point with such a test probably is that you have to think about why you should choose to study a certain language, and if you already do: whether you should continue. Edited by Iversen on 14 January 2008 at 7:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6689 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 43 of 50 13 July 2008 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
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Maybe this topic should be pinned/stickied at the top of this forum section to assist people with picking a
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6032 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 44 of 50 14 July 2008 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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I concur with that, the test is quite interesting and this topic should be pinned. The HTML implementation is also good but I would like to make a suggestion for its further improvement. It would be nice if the test was to returns a bit more informative output, right now it just says "Your score is X." It shouldn't pose any difficulty (in terms of programming) to define several score trenches, each one with a short title and description. For instance:
[-32, -10] Be wise, stay away from this language; [-9, 0] Probably not worth studying; [1, 10] Think twice before you make the plunge; [11,15] You should give it a try; [16, 20] Definitely worth studying; [21, ...] Is this destiny or have you just cheated? This language seems to be a perfect match for you. These ranges and descriptions are arbitrary and any correction or suggestions are welcome. Furthermore, it is Reltuk who will have to implement it because the test is on his hosting. So, I hope he will agree to make this quick fix :). *** My own scores weren't much of a surprise, nonetheless it was reassuring to see them come out as I've expected. French 17 Russian 13 German 9 Japanese 9 Edited by Sennin on 14 July 2008 at 6:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6267 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 45 of 50 20 July 2008 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
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Wayuunaiki 11 Italian 13 greek 7 Portuguese 20 English 21 Farsi 1 French 22 German 15 So, the goals for 2008 are re-focused to improve my French, English, Italian and portugues, before that start a new language (greek and farsi) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Licel Triglot Newbie Mexico Joined 6042 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: Italian | Message 46 of 50 22 July 2008 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
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My scores were:
English 14 French 14 Italian 20 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Regulus61790 Newbie United States Joined 6050 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, French | Message 47 of 50 27 July 2008 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
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I got 17 for French.
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| fcavalheiro Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6094 days ago 54 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 48 of 50 28 July 2008 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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I got 20 for German!
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