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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 193 of 264 11 September 2014 at 2:14pm | IP Logged |
I know that it's the Norwegian spelling :)
Thanks for the extra examples!
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 194 of 264 22 September 2014 at 3:38pm | IP Logged |
J vs P in mbti
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 195 of 264 25 September 2014 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
ok so I'm doing the tests that everyone and their mother has already done. this post will be my live reactions so to say :D
Russian - the randomization fails with cyrillics, boring. 30/30 on the easiest test
English:
curriculum and spokesman in the first 2000? "lacking distinction" and having to choose from "welcome, dominant fellow, overseas mean extraordinary"?
velocity in the top-5000?
monopoly, guild and propaganda have little to do with one's English knowledge.
are you sure you're testing the right meaning of bold? i only know this one because of Gryffindor
results: 30/30, 29/30, 28/30, 30/30, 30/30.
i struggled with "management or supply of money" because i didn't notice finance on the list oops lol
i also wondered whether to turn was "wind" or "render"
Portuguese:
boneco de neve as a test for whether you know boneco???
productive test results: 14/18, 11/18, 12/18, 7/18, 10/18
fails in the passive test - orçamento 'budget', feição 'face expression(?)', isento 'exempt', cru 'raw', exigente 'exigent' (didn't truly know in English either), desprezo 'ausência de consideração?', auge 'height, peak', lazer* 'leisure', suscitar 'provocar aparecimento'
*present in a definition. the word in question was diversão and i knew it but didn't pick
unsure about (but still picked correctly) prédio 'building', bacia 'basin', véspera 'eve', vencimento 'expiration', integrante 'member', assinalar 'mark', mendigo 'beggar', sacar 'withdraw money' (I know other meanings), enfiar 'insert, thread a needle etc' (I know fio but the definition seemed too vague)
again trouble with render heh? the definition was ceder, sujeitar, and I had to pick out of arrastar, avaliar, render and a few others
dar origem - apanhar, travar, [temer, mexer, sobreviver, gerar] - wtfnothingfits
sustentar com os braços ou mãos; perceber, prestar atenção - gotta choose two out of apostar, partilhar, segurar, reparar, assustar (edit: in hindsight, segurar is obvious for the first, and i'd understand it without second thought in context)
som fino; rápido, depressa - two out of ligeiro, franco, firme, agudo, dourado
selvagem! that's one of the words i was missing in the productive test. but i have a feeling it's used less commonly than wild in English or German?
acender ohai sorry i forgot you in the active test too
avistar 'to sight', estragar 'spoil, damage' - missed but obvious in hindsight
results: 30/30, 27/30, 26/30, 30/30, 20/30
i expected 1 fail in part two, 4 fails in part three, 0 or 1 in part four, 9 in part five
oh and i have to admit i did parts 1-3 and 4-5 separately because you don't get the detailed results so that i decided to look things up. i obviously didn't change my answer if things got more clear after looking up, even if it was by elimination
idk i'm bored. my other langs would benefit from this test but meeeh.
Edited by Serpent on 25 September 2014 at 5:27pm
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 196 of 264 25 September 2014 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
Okay, did active Italian too. 14/18, 8/18, 6/18, 4/18, 12/18. interesting.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 197 of 264 15 October 2014 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
Dialang time again
Portuguese: C1 in reading. don't remember if I've had this result before but probably not
Italian: 487 in the placement test, B1 in reading (but many times I had no difficulties with the text, just with the typical tasks like choosing the best summary, choosing the sentence that contains the main idea or whatever. and I was sleepy when I started, in fact I wanted to lie down a little and ended up dozing off and completing the rest of the test hours later.
But still, most Portuguese questions were so easy and obvious that I kept looking for pitfalls. Although I don't think the Finnish ones were so easy when I scored C1, so maybe they were too straightforward?
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4807 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 198 of 264 15 October 2014 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
Hmmm, Dialang looks interesting. I might try it for Portuguese sometime, when I have time.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6557 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 199 of 264 19 December 2014 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
And for the first time I felt like I could maybe list Spanish as basic fluency. Need to think some more of this...
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5126 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 200 of 264 19 December 2014 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
I know the feeling. Been thinking of doing this for Norwegian, but I need a baptism of fire. Or maybe I should let Norwegian wait for German to catch up.
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