caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4882 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 9 of 28 25 October 2012 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
I took the test in Swedish, which I started studying this September. I am not even
finished with my A1.2 course at a local folk school and this test placed me at B1. I left
many questions with the "don't know" option checked, so I did no guesswork.
I don't trust this :)
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5150 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 10 of 28 25 October 2012 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
Majka wrote:
Just finished the German one, got 40 out of 40.
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It says to take them with a grain of salt.
Some of these tests are fine for reading comprehension, but that's about it. There's a
lot more to knowing a language than reading.
For what it's worth, there are orthographic errors in the Spanish test, too.
R.
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Edited by hrhenry on 25 October 2012 at 9:46pm
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4688 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 11 of 28 25 October 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
I got B2 in Italian.
(I would rate my Italian: perception C2, production A2).
And I don't even list Italian as a language I speak.
I learned it for 2 years, 10 years ago, and that's all.
I lost the interest in the language very quickly.
I skipped the Portuguese test because it's an European Portuguese test, and I speak Brazilian Portuguese. And in one of the first questions you have to choose between
Onde é que vão encontrar-se (Continental version) vs
Onde é que vão se encontrar (Brazilian version).
So, choosing a Brazilian answer will make you lose your points.
Edited by Medulin on 25 October 2012 at 11:37pm
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Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5191 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian
| Message 12 of 28 27 October 2012 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
Hmm, it places my Polish at C2 (I answered 40 out of 40 correctly) and my Spanish at C1 (I only got 37 out of 40 right). I wish I wish I were really that advanced - I would place my Polish at B1 and my Spanish at B2, probably.
I also noticed the errors on the Spanish test. That kind of thing really annoys me, especially since such mistakes could be very confusing for beginners.
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Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4677 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian
| Message 13 of 28 27 October 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
The mystery of the Czech test is solved!
You don't get any points for questions Nr. 27 and 31.
As you can see, I was bored this evening :)
Otherwise, the Czech test is different from the others, there are no tricky questions, all of it is everyday speech. Even a first grader would get all of it right and that's why I was perplexed! I am very unsure about the highest level it really tests.
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Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5358 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 14 of 28 27 October 2012 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
I got B2 for Japanese. I regard myself as B2 any way so no surprise there :)
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JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4472 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 15 of 28 28 October 2012 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
Majka, I think it might be more obsession than boredom. I'm a native Spanish speaker and
also got 38 out of 40, LOL!! I won't try to find the mistake. I'm just gonna use it as
the motivation I needed to read some good Spanish literature. Something I haven't done in
longer than I care to admit.
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cheerbelle7 Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4444 days ago 8 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine), French
| Message 16 of 28 31 October 2012 at 1:58am | IP Logged |
I found this one as well:
http://www.languagelevel.com/french/index.htm
I got a B2 on the French test. I'm bordering on B2/C1 so I think it is pretty accurate.
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