Malcolm Triglot Retired Moderator Senior Member Korea, South Joined 7074 days ago 500 posts - 515 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Latin
| Message 9 of 50 08 April 2006 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
Wow! I'm quite impressed with the HTML/Javascript version. For some reason, it's more fun when you can't see the numbers. Here were my scores:
Cantonese: 11
Hindi: 1
Korean: 2
Tibetan: -2
Arabic: -6
It looks like I should do Cantonese next.
Thank you so much Reltuk for the HTML version. It's great.
If anyone has any thoughts on how to adjust the numbers, feel free to post here.
Edited by Malcolm on 08 April 2006 at 9:29pm
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7135 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 50 09 April 2006 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
Malcom and Reltuk, well done! That's about the best stuff I've come across for a long time when rarer languages are concerned. I'll make sure to include it on the website ASAP.
I tested myself for a language I yearn to learn in the future, Serbo Croatian, and got myself a staggering 26. Quite an encouragement!
For Swiss-German it was 22 and for Portuguese 29.
Well done guys!
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owshawng Senior Member United States Joined 6645 days ago 202 posts - 217 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 11 of 50 09 April 2006 at 3:02am | IP Logged |
Thank you Malcolm and Retluk. I took the test and scored a 17 for Mandarin.
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winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6803 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian
| Message 12 of 50 09 April 2006 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
An interesting test, thank you! :)
I got 11 for Armenian.
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Eidolio Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 6620 days ago 159 posts - 164 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, Flemish*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian, Greek
| Message 13 of 50 09 April 2006 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
Congratulations for this nice test, Malcolm.
I like the last part of the questions much more than the first (some people don't care about chic factor and such things, you know).
(I also have some doubts about question 11 ("how many languages are you studying?") Say you're studying French and English at university and you want to learn Spanish in your spare time - would that be so bad?)
reltuk, I visited your site and I think I know some good sites you can add to the page about Latin: Perseus offers a huge amount of Latin texts (both the original and an English translation). If you click Tools, you get a lot of useful stuff , like the Latin morphological analysis and the dictionary entry lookup, which includes the famous Lewis & Short.
If you know French, Itinera Electronica can also be very useful.
Edited by Eidolio on 09 April 2006 at 7:19am
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6774 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 14 of 50 09 April 2006 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
Thanks for this.
I took the test for various languages and scored OK on most. However, I got a -5 for Arabic! Looks like I'll have to throw away all my Arabic materials ;)
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Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 6947 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin
| Message 15 of 50 09 April 2006 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
Russian: 14
German: 14
Italian: 17
French: 5
Welsh: 10
!Xóõ: -4
So I guess German and Italian next!
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lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6649 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian
| Message 16 of 50 09 April 2006 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
Great test! I got the following results for my 'wish list'...
Tibetan - 6
Armenian - 1
Korean - 2
Hebrew - 6
So Tibetan and Hebrew should be next on my list. Which is good as I bought Learning Practical Tibetan just today. :)
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