How good is your English vocabulary knowledge?
http://testyourvocab.com
18,400 words here.
please respond
>>53199992
>>53202157
Time's are tough Op so here's a free (You)
>>53199992
>http://testyourvocab.com
14k+
"Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 15,000 words"
31,700
I gave a blank stare to pretty much entire third and fourth columns on the second page.
I'm curious if native anglos really use words like ragamuffin and williwaw in everyday life.
>>53204888
Lmao how do you not know ebay
>>53206896
Oh totally. Ragamuffins are delicious
>>53207007
There's no ebay in there
19k
Am I doing ok for a college drop out?
Time to test my native skillz
38500
eh
>>53206896
ragamuffin occasionally, but in a tongue-in-cheek way or if you're with elderly people who might get upset if you call someone a cheeky cunt. there's a lot of words there i only know from reading, most people won't get them.
>>53206896
We don't, but a decent number of those are ones most of us (excluding high school dropouts) know but don't use.
16,100
some words were really weird
26k
All of those books with no translations really paid off
>>53207224
>>53199992
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=6110778
26,300
Makes sense for a native speaker tho.
I guess I need to read some more. Those words at the end were ridiculous.
25,400
ehhhh. A lot of words I used to know but forgot the definition of over the course of my education.
>>53207534
Mirin that score
>>53207534
Wew lad.
Are you a litizen?
Do you read much?
>>53206896
Nah last two columns you would very rarely hear people use in conversation.
18,800 for a native speaker kek
Doesn't surprise me since I hate reading books
9k & a half
Needed more Latinisms
It's hard to try it by smartphonn
I'm sure mines gonna be less than 10000 or even 8000
>>53207818
Why do you hate reading anon?
>>53207997
I just find it boring
Wew, I thought I would know more. Those are not common words at all. I think that even a native speaker would need a dictionary..
>>53206896
I just know what ragamuffin is because of the "Ragamuffin war" in Brazil.
>>53207797
no, they'd consider me a pleb. apart from tolstoy, dumas and dickens i've never really been that interested in literature, i'm an engineer so i don't really "get" it. i've just always had a pretty good vocabulary, just one of those things i guess.
>>53207812
this, i don't think i've ever heard anyone say any of the final column and i'd never heard of them either.
24,700
>>53199992
29800, same as the last time. 11 years of English, telly since I was a wee lad, almost all British media which shows on my "Americockney"
Cheated on 3 words that I know from Latin though...
25,700
>tfw both natives and non-natives scored higher than me
You guys inflated your scores, right hehhehhehhheheh.
>>53207726
Shiet, I always knew Finns were somehow better English speakers than native Anglophones.
37,400???
desu I was in honor roll when I was back in high school
I dont read too much anymore but I know german and dutch and am learning russian so I dont know if I should be surprised desu
10100
>tfw i always thought my english was really good
>tfw worst score itt
got 26k ish last time I tried this
I never read anything of literary importance, all I read is technical documentation all day long
>>53208833
rejoice that guy as less than you >>53207840
personally I learned 18k English words because of video games, casual normies usually have awful English here
>>53208120
This desu
No music, no interaction
I REALLY wish I could see it as entertaining, I feel like an empty shell of opinions void of substance behind them, but there's just so much better stuff to entertain yourself
I usually score 24-31k.. ish on this. If I actually read books I might get to 40k.
Quite amazing how much useless vocab nerd hobbies can teach you
>>53207162
he's MURRICUNT, therefore he thinks he's always right
Are those some kind of memewords? Got est. 16k words like some 3rd world sheep shagger.
19,800.
I want to start reading books again but I just don't know where to start or how to make time tbqh
33,300
>>53210438
I know botch because of Witcher 3, went to see the meaning after killing the botchling.
I know raiment because of Skyrim.
I know pittance because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Reproach and mawkish are fairly common words.
All the others are meme indeed.
>>53210438
Ajar, pittance, reproach and botch are quite common words.
>>53210941
Ajar is really common. "Left the door ajar."
Legerdemain is what every RPG that tries to be fancy calls "sleight of hand". Never seen it used outside of those though.
I've never ever heard inveigle and I'm trying my hardest to come up with a reason why anyone would say "uxoricide". It's easy to guess if you know any latin, but holy fucking Christ, what a useless word.
I just imagine thats how british talk
>8,610 words
>>53211160
why can't I see my state flag?
>>53209040
How to learn more German?
I'm doing Duolingo, reading /deutsch/ threads, talking in Deutsch IRC channels, and reading what I can of Deutsch Zeitungen.
English is everywhere.
>9710
I guess those who share Latin root words have it easier than me.
>>53211087
>Legerdemain is what every RPG that tries to be fancy calls "sleight of hand". Never seen it used outside of those though.
Yeah, now I see it.
Léger+de+main, light/quick of hand. It's derived from french. I'm wondering how I didn't see it.
>now that disjunctive literally translates to disyuntivo
>can't remember what disyuntivo means
fuck this
>>53199992
>20,600
I'll take it.
>25,400
Disappointing desu
I think you only need 5,000 or so for normal conversation anyway
I know maybe 2,000 Italian words ;_;
>opsimath
a person who begins to learn or study only late in life.
It's not exactly hard to see why very few people would know obscure words like these when it can be easily described using much simpler vocabulary. Totally meme language.
I thought I'd get results on par with native speakers since I know english better than swedish. I guess never reading outside of 4chins and occasional clickbait stunts your development.
I used to read a fair amount.
just
5.5 k!
I've never studied english
I thought I was doing terrible but it says 25,900
feels good desu
23400
Used to be a very heavy reader, and I've studied Latin and French
>>53199992
>http://testyourvocab.com
my result, danish economy graduate from university
>>53210438
pittance is a small amount, think of it like a pity amount
ajar is slightly open
botch is to completely fuck up
raiment means clothing, comes from French. I only know it from fantasy books
a reproach is basically showing disappointment
Mawkish is acting overly sentimental, the more modern word would be maudlin which you'll usually only ever see in things to do with film or theatre, same as Lothario
>>53215847
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=6111839
I failed, hard, here is my result -.-
>32k
What the fuck am I retarded
>Uxoricide is killing ones wife
Surprised I haven't heard that one before I've heard patricide, matricide, infanticide and fratricide all used before but never that
French cheatermode engaged, 3/4 of the non common words are French.
>>53215933
So...if there's uxoricide then there must be, maritus...erm, maricide? maritucide?
>These high scores
Stop being so delusional.
I have feeling that people are doing this
>Oh hey I've seen that word before, it means that one thing yeah I know this
Instead of DESCRIBING it in a english sentence that makes sense.
This is a Cambodian message board for chinese cartoons, no one will care how high you scored. You're not going to get pussy here, so stop cheating.
>>53215987
>butthurt mongol
15 600 words, no cheating
On 4chan I'm basically retarded, but I guess it's decent for a second language. I probably should make an effort to remember new words (which I usually understand from context), but nah
7,700 T.T
5840(´-ω-`)
>>53216036
stay delusional my coward friend
>>53216258
Literally half of the words in the test I got, don't know if randomized, are French, stay mad no language adopted finnish kulotaïpatannën famo.
>tfw you spend 80% of your free time lurking English sites and still have a shitty vocabularity
>>53206896
>>53207195
>>53207203
>>53207726
I'm thinking you guys checked more words than you ought have tbqh. How would foreigners know more? I was very critical in checking off the words though
>>53216315
Apparently, knowing French allows you to mark many of the words that are supposed to be very hard. It's just an estimate. Your score is pretty weak, though.
>>53213552
That's what happen when you can only spout out meme desu
>>53199992
How would they fucking know my vocabulary is ~16.800? I only know some basic speech. Fucking internet-stargazers.
>>53216069
Basically the same for me... With a slightly higher score, though...
I'm using a dictionary chrome extension for unknown words. But this often times feels like cheating. I'm wondering if it would be worth forking the code and implementing a search history, so I can learn those words that I looked up...
>>53216471
>https://translate.google.com/
>Save to phrasebook
>>53216274
Why are you lying? Can you honestly say that you described all the words you checked in English ?
Even if you knew some of the words from french, there is NO WAY your vocabulary is 40k. The average for ENGLISH speaking person is 20k-35k. There is nothing you gain form lying on the internet.
14 800
I thought English was the one thing I was good at.
>>53216502
dict.cc is way better for de<>en than google
>>53216519
The thing is English has a ridiculous amount of French words and they're typically considered more sophisticated vocabulary. When I read French literature the majority of nouns, adjectives and verbs have equivalents in English, usually lesser-known words.
>>53216538
We have it harder since Finnish is so different by vocabulary.
>>53216569
How come French people aren't that good (on average) in English then? Does that mean the test is flawed?
>>53216538
I feel you fa m. I wrote L in my matriculation examination but only got 22k words.
>>53216644
>How come French people aren't that good (on average) in English then? Does that mean the test is flawed?
Because they don't bother learning it and the pronunciation is hard for us, and yes the test heavily favors french speakers.
>>53216644
The test is definitely flawed but they also just have an inherent advantage if they learn the base grammar and vocabulary. I forget the figure but our languages shared a huge amount of words, it's not hard to learn French for an English person either, though this particular test may create a bias for French proficiency in English due to the fact that the French were and invading and therefore culturally dominant presence, elevating the relative values placed on knowing certain words.
>>53216644
no, it means the french are flawed
>>53216759
Well who isn't compared to the perfect beings of Finland ?
>6,780 words
>>53216569
>>53216684
>FUCKING NORMANS REEEEEEE
5000 words
think im p average desu
>>53217073
Old English was even more francised, like 45-60% of Shakespeare is French
I hoped for more after seeing the first posts here...
>>53216644
Their government does a bunch of shit to stop Anglo culture from enriching French culture. If I remember correctly only a quarter of films shown are allowed to be of US/UK origin and so on for literature, TV etc.
It's a bit bullshit in my opinion since they did the exact same thing to us a millennia ago
>>53217257
nah just we have everything dubbed and ads with foreign words are forced to have translations included even if it's "fresh" but a lot of magazines use Frenglish because it's cool and it's really awful
Wow I've noticed my vocabulary getting worse and worse since I stopped reading ~3.5 years ago.
>>53217324
Is Frenglish use of English idioms and the like? (Like we use vis-a-vis, c'est la vie, RSVP and so on) or is it Frenchification of English words?
>>53217324
>>53217324
Quebec at least are fucking insane about language
>>53217396
it's more like a random english word in the middle of a French sentence or a straight up anglicism
>>53217414
Nah, when you hear them speak at least one word per sentence is an anglicism it's really annoying.
Ok I got a pitiful 15k score, those who scored 20k or more how did you get that vocab?
>>53217539
not being mexican for starter
I thought it would be better
>>53217539
Reading mostly, you'll never hear 80% of those words in normal conversation. Poetry is especially good for learning new vocab because they have to use a lot of archaic or otherwise unused words to get a good rhyme that keeps a meaning, for example the word twain (as in split in twain, split in two) is only used today because it was so much easier to rhyme words with it
26k
Being french is literally a cheat code to shitposting on /int/ nice
Do you even use those words? Come on, and I used to be an avid reader when I was in school, they made us read a lot of books in english.
There was also a lot of words that I know I have read in the past, but I couldn't quite remember their meaning.
I guess my lack of practice is finally hurting my vocabulary. Or maybe it was never that great to begin with.
>>53217818
Nah, I'm guessing most of these words are very specific and aren't used regularly. For instance the only reason I know raggamuffin is because I'm into reggae and the UK underground music that sprouted from it, and Leitmotiv (which isn't even an English word) because I attended a conservatory for about a year after highschool.
28,700
>be white and born in america
>know less words than non-native speakers in this thread
>>53218107
It's 'cause you're american senpai
>>53218107
I bet many of those +20k natives are some kind of autists who deliberately try to learn as many words as they can.
>>53218107
Like several people have already said, a lot of those more difficult words have french roots so it's not really weird.
>>53218163
yeah
america doesn't try to force big words in our media and entertainment
american english is very streamlined
>>53217818
A lot of these words are only ever used in specific environments, for example: lethario, puckish and lampoon would only ever really be used when reviewing a film or story. And words like soothsayer, smite, purloin or caitiff would only ever be used when trying to conjure up images of feudal times (so you'll probably only find these words in fantasy novels or games)
>>53218217
England English is streamlined as fuck but they use retarded shit that sounds like it's out of Sesame street, their whole language was infantilized somewhere during the 20th century.
25,800
>mfw I'm doing an essay based degree at a top 20 uni
Oh well
>>53199992
i got 21,700
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=6112468
and i thought i was pretty fucking good then I saw brazil >>53208162, then finland >>53209280, then poland >>53209522 , then mexico >>53211273 , then france >>53215970, which i hear, doesnt like to speak english..
its a big deal for me because i use it at work.
i guess im not that efficient.
>>53218792
New Spain claims you.
>>53218792
You're about as good as a native Yank lad, I wouldn't worry
15900
>>53220488
i have too much ebonics, my English is dying.
>>53206559
>>53207195
>>53208162
>>53215970
I call bullshit
The second page was quite some bs. No German speaker could guess these odd words except for leitmotiv lmao. And what is an ostrich?
18,600
>>53222291
i wonder if it is somehow related to Österreich
but im guessing, no.
I am ashamed.
>ITT: We tick all the boxes to show our linguistic supremacy over one another on a Taiwanese image chalkboard.
8730
and this is the result of my 3 years of exertion after being an adult.
I really can't be a human...
23,400 words
>tatterdemalion
>terpsichorean
>malapropism
>valetudinarian
>parsimonious
>ragamuffin
Fucking meme language tbqh senpai
>>53223759
I'll fookin drop u, u ragamuffin
14,400
Well, my vocabulary is small.
>>53206896
>ragamuffin
know that one from the simpsons. Thanks Mr. Burns.
>>53222291
play more games
37,500 but they didn't really have any technical/scientific stuff. I'd have checked in at about 60,000 some thirty years ago, possibly more.
>>53199992
15,900 last time I did the test
Muh Anki decks are working
>>53199992
>29,600
Not too bad.
5,570
kill me
>>53199992
31,200
I'm okay with this.
>>53206896
I've heard and used ragamuffin in real life, not williwaw.
>>53208162
Ragamuffin has several meanings.
The one that I've used/heard is basically a dishevelled child, or as an affectionate name for children you know well, like, your nephew/niece/son/daughter, typically when they're behaving messily or something.
Ie. "We love our little ragamuffin."
Good enough
turkish education
>>53216315
>American Education
If you're a native speaker and scoring below AT LEAST 25, I worry. And 25k would still be pretty limited for a native speaker.
One thing for sure, everyone in this thread has now learnt a new term
R A G A M U F F I N
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>>53216399
>Apparently, knowing French allows you to mark many of the words that are supposed to be very hard. It's just an estimate
Not always, because they often change the meaning of the words
>France "porte-manteau" = jacket hanger
>English "portmanteau" = suitcase
>>53227670
The usual meaning of portmanteau in english is not suitcase but
>A portmanteau is a word made by combining pieces of two other words.
>
(linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel; for example, smog, formed from smoke and fog.
I've -never- heard it used to mean a suitcase.
>>53227791
Yeah this one too, which kinda makes sens since "porte-manteau" is a portmanteau.
You can check tho it was used as "big suitcase"
>>53227893
I did look it up, since what you said was so confusing to me. I was surprised to find it once had such a meaning.
23,400
>thanks William
>mfw everyone here speaks native-speaker level english
>>53228065
Not really. The French posters likely know the more esoteric french-based words that even the native speakers don't know, which artificially boosts them.
And I -am- a native speaker. My swedish is shit.
>>53199992
Is there a similar test, but with memes?
>>53227967
>Sobriquet
>Svelte
>Burgeon
>Portmanteau
>Visage
>Verdure
>Maladroit
>Bruit
>Embonpoint
>Mfw
>>53228185
Basically your entire language is considered valid English, but is extremely esoterically known.
>>53228240
Well all those words have "true" English equivalent, I guess using French is just fancier
>Sobriquet = nickname
>Svelte = slender
>Visage = face
>Verdure = greenery
>Maladroit = clumsy
>Bruit = noise
>>53228323
Depends on the case. Sometimes it is used for a sense of class, but in other cases the french words have a different connotation.
For instance, visage usually has more to do with the expression of the face, or some meaning carried by one's face.
One has a grim visage when upon their face you can see foreboding .
It's sometimes hard to explain, but I'm sure you're well accustomed to how English uses words that sort-of mean the same thing, but have SLIGHTLY different implied meanings. Every language does, I just think English tends to do it a bit more due to all of the french/latin loanwords available.
>>53199992
29 000 words for me
I find it a bit high but I am not going to complain
>>53216644
The test favors French with the words selected yes.
Then again you are talking about an average, the simple fact we're on a chinese cartoon website that speasks mostly English makes us well over the average for Enlish speaking frogs.
>>53199992
Just 11,1 k.
Pretty bad.
>>53217257
There is no law to stop English precisely.
But there is a law that makes every radio stations and tv channels air French content at least 40% of the time or so.
So it's not against English, it's against every one else, and most people think it's bs, exept old people maybe.
>>53228065
Nah mate, the French can read and write it, not talk it in a normal conversation.
20,200
First attempt: <16k
Second attempt: >21k
Nice fucking spread and I didn't even cheat.
>>53199992
