Ok /lit/ let's see what you got ? http://testyourvocab.com/ 25,000 words here,and i feel like a retard

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Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:40:11 2019 No.13826450 [Reply] [Original]

Ok /lit/ let's see what you got ?

http://testyourvocab.com/

25,000 words here,and i feel like a retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:49:34 2019 No.13826487 File: 51 KB, 600x454, Screenshot_2019-09-16-14-48-30-564_com.android.chrome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] esl

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:54:00 2019 No.13826506 File: 55 KB, 709x890, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >34,200 Tried to be honest

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:55:18 2019 No.13826513 File: 61 KB, 540x680, 1568128956066.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 20600

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:02:55 2019 No.13826548 File: 21 KB, 666x423, Screenshot (3).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Native speaker, at least its more than that loser Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:03:39 2019 No.13826551 >>13826548 t. coombrain

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:04:16 2019 No.13826554 >>13826551 IM GONNA COOOOOM

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:14:01 2019 No.13826575 File: 493 KB, 2200x1586, 19D3558A-F81F-4F51-AF06-406DB7962638.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 Should I off myself

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:16:28 2019 No.13826582 >>13826575 t. chad

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:19:52 2019 No.13826592 >>13826575 esl ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:26:16 2019 No.13826608 >>13826592 English Second Language, I think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:29:28 2019 No.13826620 Only 9000 lol. Im a native speaker as well

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:31:46 2019 No.13826631 25K ESL. I think I'm ok.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:32:45 2019 No.13826636 >>13826506 you don´t know what a fucking funambulist is ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:50:16 2019 No.13826699 >>13826450 33,400 :-\

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:54:05 2019 No.13826714 File: 2.68 MB, 2560x1440, 20190916_145241.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 English is my fourth language, and the quiz doesn't even have that as an alternative.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:55:13 2019 No.13826719 File: 29 KB, 400x400, 1567748156051.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826548 How was Shaykh Sbir's vocabulary?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:55:47 2019 No.13826723 >>13826636 A paramedic that doesn't take his job seriously?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:56:22 2019 No.13826725 >>13826723 a tightrope walker, silly

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:56:35 2019 No.13826726 >>13826628 ESL?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:01:23 2019 No.13826744 >>13826714 Let me guess , you speak French, Spanish , porteguese and English ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:06:21 2019 No.13826762 >>13826744 My native language is exposed by the picture, I'm Norwegian

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:07:23 2019 No.13826765 Pretty okay considering english is my second language and I've been learning another for the past month. http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=12427075

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:13:11 2019 No.13826791

>>13826506
The first column is full of words everyone would know. The second one has lots of words I've seen somewhat often alongside slightly rare words. The third one has words I've seen, but can't remember the meaning of or that I never looked up. The fourth one has a few words I've probably seen once.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:13:34 2019 No.13826794 >>13826762 So Norwegian , Swedish, Danish and English ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:17:13 2019 No.13826809 >29,700 words >Most native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words. I'm OK with this, being that English isn't my native tongue.

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:22:07 2019 No.13826833
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>>13826791
This is me btw.
I've been learning English ever since I was around 5 years old. Many of the words I checked in are words I've probably seen only once while reading, but that I never looked up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:23:14 2019 No.13826838 >>13826575 No, go read a dozen Victorian novels and a few Shakespeare plays to cure your deficiency.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 09:28:25 2019 No.13826855 File: 38 KB, 728x403, Screenshot 2019-09-16 at 15.27.54.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jesus, fuck...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:35:30 2019 No.13827114 >>13826794 Norwegian, Spanish, Arabic, and English

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:38:38 2019 No.13827134 >>13826855 Did you only select the words you remember the meaning of?

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:52:18 2019 No.13827195
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>most native English speakers have between 20,000 and 35,000 words
This seems high. Not to brag but my vocabulary is exceptionally large. I seriously doubt I am in the lower 50th percentile.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:52:54 2019 No.13827199 >>13826833 It says not to check those words, brainlet

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:52:57 2019 No.13827201 >>13826855 Are you ESL?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:59:06 2019 No.13827232 31,000 faggggooootts

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:21:43 2019 No.13827343 >>13827114 How good is your Arabic and Spanish ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:22:26 2019 No.13827346 >>13827195 They probably lie, tick words they don't know

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:30:27 2019 No.13827387 >>13826450 36700 as ESL, but being French native is a cheat since a lot of the rarer words are transparent duplicate of French words.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:35:13 2019 No.13827410 >>13827387 How is your English vocab so good? Do you just sit there reading dictionaries or something? Genuinely wondering

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:43:30 2019 No.13827452 File: 36 KB, 729x507, Capture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 >>13827195 Non-native speaker, not even in the Latin or Germanic group, never lived for an extended period abroad Am I in the presence of illiterates?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:45:20 2019 No.13827459 File: 13 KB, 707x332, firefox_EDVWgrYyJ8.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 midwit here!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:45:25 2019 No.13827460 >>13827452 >Average Vocab >Am I illiterate? Come on now

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:49:36 2019 No.13827480 >>13827459 >And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words. So I guess I speak as well as a native at 23k.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:53:24 2019 No.13827495 >>13827480 how?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:54:46 2019 No.13827502 14,500 non native

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:54:49 2019 No.13827504 >>13827201 yes but i'm following an IB course and i'm eighteen (sure i am ;p) >>13827134 yeah pretty much, or rather those that i can contextualise

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:55:28 2019 No.13827509 >>13827480 it says natives know between 20k and 35.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:59:59 2019 No.13827539 >>13826450 This is an incredibly poorly designed test. Why didn't they just have you tick the words you didn't know/were unsure of?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:00:06 2019 No.13827541 File: 424 KB, 750x1334, 93930EC4-3D44-418D-81C7-5161AC0AD0B4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I guess that’s a decently good score?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:00:46 2019 No.13827545 >>13827114 that is great how good are your other languages

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:03:51 2019 No.13827563

>>13827410
As I said, my native language is French. About half the most difficult words are just calques from French (see I just used the word "calque" which is a French word but it also works in English). See: regnant, very close to the French "régnant", which literally means "reigning", which is an English synonym for "regnant". In French it's relatively common, in English it's rare and pedantic.

In any "high-minded" conversation, if I don't know the English word for a specific French word I have in mind I just use the Anglicized French word. Works most of the time. Because of that the test is probably skewed for French speaker (if you have shit vocabulary you'll be underrated, if not you'll be very overrated).

I also spent a lot (arguably way too much) time reading newspapers for my English classes since I took tests for entry into prestigious Engineering schools that require applicants to have some proefficiency in English. I must have read one issue of an English-language magazine every week for about 4 years. Before that I had done it once every two week for a couple years. I still have some of my old English presentations, it's amazing how they're filled with Anglo journalist-speak, looks like I was a good parrot.

I also remember being assigned translations of English texts to French (and vice versa), without dictionary or internet acces. One of them was some modernist piece without puncutation (but relatively tame except for that), another had a lenghty description of a chimney and hearth with many specific words for the tools you use for fire-stoking. Our prof was quite fond of translation, her lessons were very interesting. One of the actual entry test was a translation of an excerpt from a Tao Lin novel, which is funny in retrospect. I still remember the time when Tao Lin was /lit/'s most discussed meme author.

After that I stopped studying English formally but I spent about 5 years on /lit/ (with a 2 year gap that I'm already regretting) while also reading novels in Engilsh (mostly Joyce, also a bit of Chesterton, and a few short stories collections).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:06:28 2019 No.13827577 >>13826450 24,800 I share your pain, OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:45:38 2019 No.13827778 8,920 not a native speaker but I still feel like a retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:48:30 2019 No.13827790 File: 215 KB, 2178x1032, vocab.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:53:03 2019 No.13827819 39,200

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 13:04:15 2019 No.13827891 File: 27 KB, 766x436, pgoodiguess.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] eh

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 13:05:28 2019 No.13827907 >>13826450 It is litteraly stupid tier. Webster only has 2 definition for Uxoricide You litteraly can't check it or many other words. Badly fucking done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 13:18:40 2019 No.13828007 File: 168 KB, 640x1136, IMG_2350.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] esl

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 13:25:40 2019 No.13828052 File: 15 KB, 723x350, firefox_H7lJt62r3Y.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Yes I have read the dictionary, how could you tell?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 15:36:18 2019 No.13828780 File: 23 KB, 735x521, rEXdTWJFsF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Enghlish second language

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 15:51:04 2019 No.13828854 File: 19 KB, 693x353, Przechwytywanie.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm a pollack

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 15:52:17 2019 No.13828863 File: 78 KB, 461x270, Screenshot_2019-.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] els though

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:02:05 2019 No.13828898 27.2k ESL

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:04:13 2019 No.13828909 How the fuck do you ESL know so many words? I feel very stupid at 17,600.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:08:35 2019 No.13828934 >>13828780 Bitch you got 500 more than me and I'm native. And you didn't even spell English correctly, how did you do that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:21:24 2019 No.13828989 >>13828909 A lot of esls here a aree lying , i get between 11k and 20k depending on how lenient i am

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:22:38 2019 No.13828996

>>13828934
>And you didn't even spell English correctly, how did you do that?

There's a reason between spelling incorrectly and typing incorrectly. Mistakes happen.
That said, you want me to tell me why I know your language better than you do? How am I supposed to know. If you're implying I cheated, I took the test two times, the second time I double-checked the answers with an online dictionary. I got three thousand words left, but what you see in the screenshot is my second try. That said, it seems way too high for me as well but I did learn English in middle school. I also got a pretty high Ielts score when I took it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:25:00 2019 No.13829006 >>13828996 *difference, not reason sorry

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:25:38 2019 No.13829010 >>13828909 i imagine that if you click the esl option it bumps your score up, someone should test this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:33:31 2019 No.13829043 >>13829010 I tried because my score seemed too high, mine stayed the same but someone else should try too

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:35:13 2019 No.13829047 >>13828996 he's like nabokov

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:35:22 2019 No.13829049 >>13827790 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:36:27 2019 No.13829053 File: 48 KB, 924x642, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 English is my second language. Okayissh imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:37:23 2019 No.13829056 >>13829043 yeah i tried too and i guess our esls are just geniuses or something.

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:44:09 2019 No.13829090

>>13829047
Honestly, I don't think it's that accurate.
It's not accurate in general because it doesn't really measure the amount of words you know, but the amount of words you believe you know.

Also, as I mentioned, I retook the test after double checking with a dictionary: the first time I got around 35000 but I checked way less words the second time and only got around 3000 less?
In addition I think it values some world more than it should: I got less boxes ticked than, say, >>13826506 but I got more in the "last row"

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 16:58:54 2019 No.13829168 >>13826592 >>13826608 No it’s my native language

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 17:19:08 2019 No.13829267 >>13828996 I wasn't implying you cheated, or that you didn't know how to spell English, I was using your typo to humorously point out my own retardation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 17:37:07 2019 No.13829358 >>13829267 Oh lol dw, as you see having a big vocabulary will not be the difference between being retarded and not ahaha

>>	TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. Mon Sep 16 17:40:13 2019 No.13829385 File: 261 KB, 720x1280, Screenshot_20190502-133514.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ooga booga

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 17:45:18 2019 No.13829422 >>13829090 > but I got more in the "last row" How do you know so many words form the final row , i can't recognize any of them

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 18:17:44 2019 No.13829630 >>13829422 Not many, just more than that guy. I think it that case being bilingual helps: like, I knew what "cenacle" mean because in Italy "The Last Supper" by Da Vinci is also called "Il cenacolo"

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 19:30:22 2019 No.13830061 27k esl. Kill me I thought I was better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 19:42:44 2019 No.13830124 26400. what's the point of using words other people don't know?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 20:24:01 2019 No.13830354 26,400. That said, I've noticed from reading that I understand certain words better if I actually see how they fit in a sentence.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 20:36:55 2019 No.13830444 >>13826575 also got 12400 fml

>>	Anonymous !P45fr4QSwk Mon Sep 16 21:15:05 2019 No.13830658 >>13826450 >23,400 meh

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 21:38:28 2019 No.13830775 >>13826450 21k ESL but I grew up in the US

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:51:50 2019 No.13831174 >32,500 Pretty shit, but what can you do. The fuck is a melange? Are we sure they didn't sneak some french in there to fuck us over?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:01:52 2019 No.13831211 >>13827195 I would guess I am slightly above average and I hit about 20,000. Age is probably a huge factor. I may be less than average overall simply because of that, but compared against most people at my uni I'm above average.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:07:29 2019 No.13831237 >>13831174 >the fuck is a melange did you even read Dune you pleb t. got a score of 44,000

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:11:35 2019 No.13831252 File: 12 KB, 468x262, vocabsize.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Guys...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:21:59 2019 No.13831304 >>13831252 if you're not ESL or 5 years old you need to get a tard handler before you get hurt

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:30:25 2019 No.13831358 File: 12 KB, 474x252, vocabsize2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13831304 Never mind. Tried it again and everything's looking good!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:37:42 2019 No.13831389 >36,600 The secret is to lie.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:39:37 2019 No.13831397 >>13826450 >http welp gg

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 00:38:40 2019 No.13831662 >>13826450 >33,000 >tfw I have seen most of the others before but never thought to look up their definition

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:11:24 2019 No.13831805 34,800 I’m a published writer, full time copywriter, and speak Latin. I did not know a lot of that shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:13:00 2019 No.13831811 18.7k esl

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:22:17 2019 No.13831842 27,500 ESL

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:28:34 2019 No.13831862 File: 847 KB, 637x358, download.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13826450 20k ESL

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:46:00 2019 No.13831916 >>13828909 >learnt english in school since 1st grade >spend all day on the internet, which is in english Also I switched my internal momologue from my native language to english in 7th grade. Don't remember why.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:51:08 2019 No.13831925 >>13828909 just read nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 01:58:36 2019 No.13831942 >>13826450 27,800

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:10:07 2019 No.13832481 13,000 ESL feels bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:21:40 2019 No.13832523 >>13828909 autism probably

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