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| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6677 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 41 of 164 29 June 2006 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Those test being created by "whites", any other result would have been surprising.
Too true. Most tests concentrate on logics. Even what they pretend tests the spatial sense is normally just logics as well. I don't complain. Some add in vocabulary, which is useless as a measure of linguistic proficiency. The day they manage to include for example financial or jungle survival skills, my score would drop drastically. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6678 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 42 of 164 29 June 2006 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK, an IQ question, even though it's obviously controversial, and perhaps irrelevant.
According to some charts I've seen, the way IQs are scored, 150 or more counts as "genius" level. However, do you think that people with lower IQs could be language geniuses? Like, 150 perhaps (or any such score) is not the absolute cut-off point for genius in any category? Perhaps this is a moot point, but I wanted to ask it anyway. I've changed my opinion about IQs in that I use to put a lot of value into them, whereas now I don't so much, but I still think that at some level they can be relevant, at least in some measurements. I've never taken such a test, actually I'd be a bit scared to, but whatever my score would be, I doubt it would be 150 or higher! :-) Genius is kind of a foggy area anyway. Some people are definately geniuses for something, and some are more obscure I think. I guess I'm not one though, I would have known by now. (*Sigh* and a smile for good cheer) Edited by Journeyer on 29 June 2006 at 5:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6700 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 43 of 164 29 June 2006 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Slightly off-topic but...I'd be more willing to take IQ tests if they left out all the maths stuff. I *really* can't work with numbers. :s
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6678 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 44 of 164 29 June 2006 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Math I'm not so good at, nor am I good at spatial things (at least I suspect I'm not). How would they test language apptitude anyway?
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| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6700 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 45 of 164 29 June 2006 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've no idea. I know diplomatic services have their own tests to test language aptitude but I don't know what these entail.
I wonder how they go about testing whether people can learn difficult languages such as Arabic or Mandarin as well as the 'easier' European languages. Could someone show an aptitude for, say, Japanese or Turkish but fail to grasp German or Norwegian? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6825 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 46 of 164 30 June 2006 at 2:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Check The University of Oxford admissions page and download the first link (Language Aptitude test). It's quite interesting. Edited by patuco on 30 June 2006 at 2:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6667 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 47 of 164 30 June 2006 at 10:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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I started this, but got stuck after queestion number 1. :)
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6825 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 48 of 164 30 June 2006 at 10:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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You should try the question about the imaginary language Telet. Scary!
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