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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 22 13 May 2011 at 5:04am | IP Logged |
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I know it varies from person to person, which is exactly why I am asking. What kind of
vocabulary challenges you? Honestly , a lot of Spanish vocabulary has given me a more troubling time than Mandarin. Perhaps that's because of my loathing of verb conjugation or the fact that I'm a bit more advanced in Spanish. I'd like to hear your experiences. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5963 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 22 13 May 2011 at 6:10am | IP Logged |
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I hope you are not saying that words like 水仙花, 防患未然, 胆固醇, 碳水化合物, 分期付款 and 温室效应 are easy. Edited by Snowflake on 13 May 2011 at 6:10am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sm66 Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5362 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Greek, German | Message 3 of 22 13 May 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
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Just yesterday I read the word detumescence and to me that is a word which
constitutes the 'difficult' tag. Even though English is my native tongue, it was the first time I have ever encountered it. I think that advanced/difficult vocabulary depends on your experience in the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 22 13 May 2011 at 7:32am | IP Logged |
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I have not gotten that far into Mandarin. I'm sure there will be vocabulary that's hard
to learn in every language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4953 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 5 of 22 13 May 2011 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
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To be it's very low frequency words, but in particular those that help add very slight shades to language. In English:
spot vs blotch vs dapple vs mottle to suffuse, to imbue, to evince sardonic vs ironic vs sarcastic That kind of stuff. Earlier this year I was on a 2000 advanced English vocab study. I remember some, but I remembered many more back then. Since I have taken up Portuguese so that takes the time I used to take with advanced English words. But I learned them really well and I will review them soon. I remember words like valetudinarian, to impetrate, ineluctable and lecherous. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6054 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 6 of 22 13 May 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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Words that are so low frequency that their usage depends on a variety of cultural factors and settings, registers, background knowledge, special combinations with other words, etc.
Or slang...slang is difficult. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 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 7 of 22 13 May 2011 at 11:05am | IP Logged |
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Very long words without recognizable components
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