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| sheetz Senior Member United States Joined 6383 days ago 270 posts - 356 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Mandarin | Message 17 of 31 04 November 2007 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I managed to hit 44 a couple of times. The key is to make educated guesses by breaking the words down to its root components. A lot of the words i was able to deduce the meanings of without ever having seen them used before in my entire life.
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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6348 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 18 of 31 05 November 2007 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I can barely get over level 30 :(
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| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6387 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 19 of 31 05 November 2007 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Now, I realize this isn't language related at all, but I would like to encourage everyone to visit The Hunger Site to click once each day to donate a cup of staple food. There are also similar sites you can link to that donate books, fund health care, and save rainforest. It takes only a few seconds everyday, but if we all started clicking it would make a big difference.
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| Jerome Newbie Australia Joined 6542 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 20 of 31 07 November 2007 at 2:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
My honest first attempt was about level 38-40, but as I've had some free time lately I decided to see how long it would take to reach level 50 :P The results best level: 50 score: ~25,000 time: 3 days Yes, it can be done! Here's a challenge for those who have a competitive streak: (please let me know if this is out of line) I'm curious to see if anyone can improve on my effort (1) by getting to level 50 more quickly (i.e. with a lower score) than I did, or (2) by making a greater improvement in level (e.g. my honest attempt was 40 and my highest was 50, so that's a 10 level increase*. But going from say 20 to 35 would be a 15 level increase, and thus far more of an improvement) I think learners of English definitely have the advantage for (2), and they'll certainly learn words that are more useful ;-) *although I can only consistently get to about level 45 now 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| El Gringo Groupie United States Joined 6266 days ago 65 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 31 07 November 2007 at 8:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sweet. I made it my new homepage, so every time I use the net I won't forget to do it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Louche Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6525 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Romanian, Swahili | Message 22 of 31 07 November 2007 at 9:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I love how that website is basically saying that wasting your time is the equivalent of solving world hunger. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| El Gringo Groupie United States Joined 6266 days ago 65 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 31 07 November 2007 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
No one is serious in there claim about solving the issue. But its fools like you who can't spend 2 seconds clicking on something before going about your business... People like you are the reason problems like this exist in the first place. You have to take baby steps to see any progress and if more people cared for others it would have never gotten this bad. Peace. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6609 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 31 07 November 2007 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I hit level 47 at around 1200 grains of rice. But it was my strong Latin vocabulary stock that got me there -- not English. Without Latin, I wouldn't have been able to correctly choose the synonyms for "acuminate" or "surd", for example (or even "georgic", thanks to Vergil).
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