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Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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anyone know of something like this for other languages, eg german?

Actually they have a link at http://testyourvocab.com/about.php:

"The companion Brazilian project can be found at howmanywords.com.br"

Which right now just says "Calcule o tamanho do seu vocabulário em inglês / Coming soon"

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #108

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live). This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-o…

Similar experience, 17,400 words.

German, speaking English on a daily basis, had 8 years of English in school and 9 years of Latin, which probably helped me a bit. (Though I hope my teachers don't read this)

Does anyone know a similar test for grammatical proficiency?

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am in a similar situation and my estimated vocabulary size is 10100 words. Doh! :D

I am at 10.200 being studying Enlgish for 8 years and using it on a daily basis for social and professional life. My level of English is above almost all my pears from I come from.

Pears, just like apples, usually don't speak at all, let alone in foreign languages.

Sorry for the pun but since this is a thread about vocabulary and it's sunday when most of the regulars are away instead of procrastinating at work anyway I hope I may be forgiven.

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #108

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live). This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-o…

Just so that anyone lower feel good, I did only 8500, I need to read non tech topics probably and never lived in a english country.

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #108

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live). This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-o…

I think I have assimilated enough US culture/vocab during a 10 yr stay. Of course studying English since the first grade probably helped a lot too. Non-Native (India) but scored 35,800 :)

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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They could also test you on some of the less-recognized words you selected to help identify cheating.

OR they could actually make it a REAL test, e.g. multiple choice I scored far lower than I would have expected, which although it hurts my ego a bit, I can easily dismiss because of the nature of this test.

How is multiple choice a REAL test?

In all the exams I had in my life, from 1st grade to BS in CS, I only had one multiple choice test.

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #108

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live). This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-o…

I'm a French native, began English when I was 13 (German is my first "school language") although I used basics of English before (to play some games, use DOS). The test estimates my vocabulary size to be 21,100. There is _no way_ that I know that much words. I think it's biased a lot for foreigners, particularly French ones (which gives you a lot of formal English words "for free"). And even more when you have taken 3 years of latin, 1 of greek.

Re: Estimate your English vocabulary size

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post #108

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live). This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-o…

Spanish here. Got an estimated vocabulary size of 17,7000 words. I lived and worked in the U.K for a couple of years. I think I might be in a better position than some of you when it comes to words derivated from Latin, as they are almost always the same in Spanish. Leaving those out I am sure I would get similar results.

French here, and I concur. Quite a few terms are directly borrowed from French or have very clear Latin roots, making them easy to understand even without having actually encountered them in English.
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