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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6781 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 24 22 May 2009 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I searched the forum, and it seems the website was
http://www.wordsandtools.com/vocdemo/gzram3.html I've taken their 'Advanced' test with 20 second per word time limit:
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5771 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 18 of 24 23 May 2009 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a native speaker, and the choice of vocabulary is very unnatural in some of those phrases, so I wouldn't worry too much. For example- I also wrote 'benevolence', before trying 'beneficence' instead. And there are a couple on the university word lists that I haven't got a clue about! Like "they insp_____ the products before sending them to the stores" (apparently it's not "inspected") and "In a hom_____ class all of the students are of a similar proficiency"- I thought 'homogenous' but it seems like a very unnatural sentence.
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5844 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 19 of 24 23 May 2009 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Hencke, you are really resourceful! Interesting findings in the HTML!
Thanks Russianbear for posting the test, this is exactly what I hoped to find! I took it and got:
It's strange that I had two less correct answers, but apparently the my estimated vocabulary is 20 more words... I actually don't think that my score in my mother tongue would be much higher than this. And I'm actually so bold as to think that my score might be better than what many native speakers would get (although probably not anyone on this forum!) I think I was being sloppy with two of the questions actually, but on the other hand, part of the test could be that the skills are so solid that you don't have to stop and think, you know immediately and will not slip up for the smallest distraction... Well, now I have an idea what the goal post is, but it might be too ambitious. I'll have to set some intermediate goals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5915 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 20 of 24 23 May 2009 at 11:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I got 107 out of 120 and an estimate of 13000-something. I think your estimate depends on which ones you get wrong.
For anyone taking the test - beware, sometimes the site changes your answer, god knows what I did wrong with my keyboard while doing the test but I saw it doing it more than once and corrected them, but still got a few answers marked as wrong (even though I'd selected the right answer) because of this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6900 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 24 23 May 2009 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Score: 108 of 120
Estimated vocabulary size: 17380 Advanced level 10 s/word was the shortest time limit available but I don't think I averaged more than 5s per word. I don't know how much it helped that I had taken this test before, a couple of years back when we were discussing it in another thread. At least I didn't consciously remember any of the answers. I can see I still have glaring gaps in my vocabulary though, misassociating words like: indulge, pleated, grumpy, obtrusive, niggle (thinking of nibble instead), owlish, fledge, swot, fulsome, emetic and runt. Only one of the mistakes resulted from hurrying too much, when I read "wow" and associated it to "exclamation" when the word was actually vow. Edited by Hencke on 23 May 2009 at 4:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5844 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 22 of 24 23 May 2009 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow Hencke, it's amazing that you are so good when you don't even live in an English speaking country!
Russianbear's score is impressive too because his starting point is a Slavic language with a different alphabet, so it was harder work for him. I found a Swedish vocabulary test, but it was poorly constructed so I dropped it. But I am NOT so sure my Swedish vocabulary is better than my English vocabulary. Maybe a little bit. My 'professional' vocabulary is definitely better in English but things like unusual household items would be words that I am more likely to know in Swedish. I stopped trying to develop my vocabulary in either language after university.. I am just an IT geek so nobody cares whether I am eloquent as long as the job gets done... Isn't there any English native speaker who is willing to take the test? Edited by cordelia0507 on 23 May 2009 at 8:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6278 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 23 of 24 23 May 2009 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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116 out of 120 (I am a native speaker of English).
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5771 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 24 of 24 24 May 2009 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Score: 108 of 120
Estimated vocabulary size: 17380 Not great for a native speaker :-( 1 person has voted this message useful |
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