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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5337 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 9 of 38 08 September 2011 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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It always makes my day when Professor Arguelles posts up a new video. :)
My score was 26,900 on the vocabulary size test, although I clicked through it pretty fast. I'm dying to know what shallows it would plumb in a language like German or Russian though... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6251 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 38 08 September 2011 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations, Kuikentje.
You should change your English level - I really don't think "Intermediate" is appropriate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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I went back and tried again to see if I rushed or just had a weird outcome. I didn't do much better: 16,800.
Some words I didn't recognize at all: Eythrocyte Rouble Others had meanings that I didn't see listed: Trill Ruck Hessian Alum Here is a specific example: Hutch Please clean the hutch. space in the back of a car used for bags, etc. cage for small animals round metal thing in the middle of a bicycle wheel thing with metal bars to keep dirt out of water pipes To me, a hutch is a chest of drawers, not anything on the list, so I answered I don't know. So I'm not sure what to make of the results. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6160 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 38 08 September 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I know what a rouble is but I've only seen it spelled ruble so I didn't choose Russian currency. I also know what trill is, but I didn't see it as one of the answers.
I didn't guess. Unless I knew the word for sure I choose I don't know. Maybe that's the difference. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6220 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 15 of 38 08 September 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Your use of hutch is regional (and one I hardly recognize, to boot - I'd pick it out of a list, but probably not come up with that meaning spontaneously, and wouldn't ever actually say it). The test is definitely biased towards UK English. I share your complaint about unlisted meanings. The options to chose between were often a bit off, and when two were near different meanings of a word, it really got annoying (unfortunately, I didn't keep a list). It wasn't an issue for most words, but when it was, it was grating. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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