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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 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 9 of 14 30 January 2014 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got Danish and had to read a text and choose a picture. I chose the wrong one :/
Earlier I also identified all the five languages correctly, I'm glad to say telling Swedish from Danish was easy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4477 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 10 of 14 30 January 2014 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I also successfully identified 5 languages including Danish and Swedish without difficulty, but then was told to listen to a series of very short audio clips in which a word was replaced by a beep, and then asked to pick the word that should be replace the beep. Given that I couldn't catch more than a few words here and there, I had absolutely no idea and guessed randomly, getting 3/12. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6698 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 14 31 January 2014 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Now I got something else, it sounded like a mix of a Slavonic language and something else. No idea.
The ones I had to grade (and identify) were Swedish, Danish, Dutch, German and English (same as last time, I think). Why I even had to identify my native language, I can't tell. Then a reading comprehension in German (same language as last time, but another text), and four pictures to choose between. All correct this time too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4477 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 12 of 14 31 January 2014 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Based on Jeff's experience I tried again and got a reading test in Dutch, which was of
course easy. I think perhaps I'm not the best subject for this test for academic purposes... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4100 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 13 of 14 31 January 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I took the test and had Danish as the language I was tested on. I chose the right picture but I could only understand a little of what Kristina (the girl talking) was saying. Luckily, I have some background in Norwegian.
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| WoofCreature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 4315 days ago 80 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 14 of 14 31 January 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged | ||
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The first time I took it I had to listen to a Dutch word (spoken) and produce a translation in less than I think five seconds. I had to do that for I think 50 words. The second time I was given a recording in Danish and had to pick the correct picture. I barely caught any words but somehow picked the right one. The third time I had to read a paragraph in Danish and again pick the correct picture. I had five minutes, so I reread, but even if I hadn't it would have been very easy, thanks to Norwegian.
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