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I posted this on /lit/ by mistake, but I want to see how /int/ does.
http://my.vocabularysize.com
I'd like to see the difference between readers and non-readers. Ideally non-native English speakers.
The test was a recommendation by professor Alexander Arguelles and I took it from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqME-RTtIs
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>>78971383
>100 questions
shan't be doing it
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>>78971479
no problem my dude. I guess someone will be interested in doing it though. There's a lot of information in there too.
Also native language and how long have you been reading in English if you're a reader would be interesting too.
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Sorry, I managed to answer the first 3 questions but this used up all my energy.
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>>78971383
>You know at least 14,800 English word families!
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mine is
>>at least 8,400
should be ashamed.
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>>78973220
>>78973881
reader or non-reader and how much time have you been actively using English?
And there's nothing to be ashamed of. Watch the video starting at 5:55 and look how his students did.
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>>78973992
What do you mean by reader or non-reader?
I work as a shopkeeper and a lot of my customers are westerners and I had the fortune of good English teachers when I was growing up.
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>>78974217
I mean if you read books or not.
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>You know at least 19,200 English word families!
OK, but what the fuck is a muff
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>>78973992
>reader or non-reader
>actively using
I don't even get clearly what are you meaning by those phrases...
I read some English sentences almost everyday, as I browse this board. but I am reading 1-3 pages per day of English book lately, about months.
I have very limited occasion to speak in English, maybe once or twice in a couple of months.
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>>78974254
Oh, I see. Yes, I have read a good number of books in English.
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>>78974297
that's a lot Giovanni and I had no idea
>>78974367
>1-3
stop being lazy and step your game up japan
>>78974370
being able to actually talk with English speakers all the time is great though. I never got to talk the language that much
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>>78974606
>>Argentina
>>call me
>>lazy
But I know maybe at least 3,000 Kanjis.
It's no fair compare us Asians to descendants of Romans.
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>>78974923
I'm just saying you can do more than 3 pages a day. Also Chopper :3
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>>78974923
Why is it that all east Asian languages are meme languages with 12,000 characters?
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>>78974995
Actually, I read it out loud, in attempt to improve my pronunciation. I'll do it if you say so, but, yes it might seems really cool reading aloud a numbers of pages in awkward English.
>>78975020
I haven't counted my Kanji vocabulary, but 3,000
is basic level of our literacy so I presumed.
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not too bad i guess
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>>78975020
They were all cucked by the Chinese, same reason why everyone in the West uses the Latin alphabet
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>>78975376
Fuck off burger.
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>>78975376
I'm nobody really so you shouldn't just do it because I say so, but I think you can still read a couple of pages aloud and manage to read even more silently so as to gain much needed vocabulary.
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>>78971383
18.400, not half bad.
I have to read a lot technical stuff in english everyday due to my job.
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>>78975473
>nobody
>>some only Argentina I have ever talked
>>I shall keep his word
>>read 5 pages aloud per day.
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>You know at least 11,200 English word families!
I skipped a lot tho because I didn't wanted to cheat.
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>You know at least 16,400 English word families!
Just want to point out that this is very Ameri-centric. Some of the words I legitimately didn't know, because we don't use them here, not because I'm badly read.
<spoiler> I am </spoiler>
>>78974297
excessive pubic hair on a woman
>cor blimey m8, the missus needs to trim her muff
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Whenever I faced an unfamiliar word, I wrote the word down to find out the meaning later. Many of those turned out to be words that I wouldn't have known even in Finnish
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>>78978258
a friend from USA just took the test and got 17000, so I'd say you're not alone. She doesn't read much.
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16,600
>tfw retarded
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>>78978869
Yeah I'd like to think my vocabulary isn't that bad though. As I said, a lot of the words are very American and I guessed. What was your score out of curiousity?
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>>78979269
16k and I wonder what's the background of >>78974297. The other anon that got 18k+ is also Italian but he said he has to read a lot of technical stuff for work. I read a lot but I'm super lazy when it comes to learning new definitions. It's all done by context in my particular case.
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>>78979128
lol i got 14600. I used the "do not know" option a lot though, I never answered unless I was certain.
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>>78979518
Pretty impressive dude. A lot of the trickier words were latin cognates though. Might go some way to explaining it?
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>>78977325
>>78979551
well done, that's the idea. No cheating allowed.
>>78979632
I didn't notice that but if you did, then it probably has something to do. I'm a Spanish speaker though and I'm learning Italian, so you could argue that any word with a latin root that an Italian can guess, I can too.
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Got 19200. Native speaker and have always been a reader. But there were a couple that stumped me. Seemed mostly to be older fashioned words.
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The actual score is higher but I misclicked a couple of words because am on mobile.
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>>78979959
Impressive. So here we have at least one useful comparison between two brits, one being a non-reader an the other a long time reader.
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21,600 hm mediocre desu
>>78978258
I thought it was very uk-centric. Like a lot of the words I wouldn't have known if I didn't watch British TV or follow soccer and read the news about it which has all sorts of British turns of phrases a normal American wouldn't know about. Interesting.
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>>78980190
>I thought it was very uk-centric. Like a lot of the words I wouldn't have known if I didn't watch British TV or follow soccer and read the news about it which has all sorts of British turns of phrases a normal American wouldn't know about. Interesting.
That's because we use big words here. Is a muff a tea cosy?
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>>78980229
No, it's like those Russian fur hats but with the lid cut off except you put it on your hands to keep them warm in the winter. I thought it'd be vagina too until I saw the definitions offered kek
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>>78980229
Your slang isn't known for big words. It's great though, just pure description. Like bubble and squeak or wiggly tin. Couldn't stop laughing the first time I heard that one. We call it corrugated iron but no one would use "corrugated" in a sentence not talking about it.
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>>78980752
kek I really can't tell if this is a troll or not, well played sir
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15600
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I got 16,200
I selected words that i inmediately regreted choosing, so idk
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>>78971383
17600, it was in English though.
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>You know at least 13,200 English word families!
sad I guess, but I have never "directly" studied English, I just read English-speaking forums/news and watched youtube for a few years
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28,800.
>>78978258
Any Briton getting less than 20k is either an immigrant or clinically retarded.
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>>78982092
Intelligence is overrated anyway.
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>>78971383
>You know at least 16,400 English word families!
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I am rather upset by the score, honestly. Was expecting myself to get around 18000 because throughout my whole life I was always the best English speaker into every single given group of people. I got to the point of being called "the best of this year's sub-grade" in the university.
Oh well. There goes the only thing that kept my self esteem afloat.
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>>78983297
ASIAN FRIENDS!!
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>>78983396
t-t-thanks...
I live in Europe though
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>>78984464
Mine is about 8500, frenz.
But it is inevitable though, in well-developed Asian countries like ours, English staffs are to be immediately translated by some other specialist, while other cunt's citizens have to attack raw-English materials. So then, we couldn't be in the need of learning English, right?
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