The Vocab Thread [arealme vocab test]

tn5421 wrote

This baka knows more english than his native language, wew.

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tn5421 wrote

This baka knows more english than his native language, wew.

I don't use it much nowadays :<. Pretty much just to talk to my family.

That's really solid, most people would believe you to be a native speaker with that kind of score, so long as you don't have some kind of obvious accent.

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Did better than I thought I would. Also learned that jejune was an English word.

malmon wrote

I don't use it much nowadays :<. Pretty much just to talk to my family.

Do you still "think" in Polish though?

All in One wrote

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Did better than I thought I would. Also learned that jejune was an English word.

malmon wrote

I don't use it much nowadays :<. Pretty much just to talk to my family.

Do you still "think" in Polish though?

I honestly don't ever remember sort of automatically thinking in Polish. I can think in Polish if I actively make myself, but it's just easier to stick to English.

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I think it was pretty generous. If I had any talent here it was more at recognizing the connotation and "feeling" of words than their exact meanings.

All in One wrote

Did better than I thought I would. Also learned that jejune was an English word.

Jejune is one of my favorite words. It just sounds so unique. Not a great example of the "feeling" of the word matching its meaning though; it sounds very exceptional and beautiful to me when its meaning is exactly the opposite.

Yuu wrote

Terrible, toward the end (Question 38- 39+) I just guessed because I couldn't even understand close to any of the words. I guess it's alright since I'm not an native english speaker, but I am on the same level as a 14 year old .-. I'm much older than that.

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I suck, I always thought I was pretty alright with english :p Bubble bursted!

14-year-old native speaker isn't bad for language mastery.

Man, I don't like the way this test is designed. Some of the time, you can suss out the correct answer to an unfamiliar word by its part of speech. Sometimes, synonyms have tenuous connections at best, and in once case there were two good antonyms for a word because of its different meanings.

That said, I got 5.14%.

bpseudopod wrote

Man, I don't like the way this test is designed. Some of the time, you can suss out the correct answer to an unfamiliar word by its part of speech. Sometimes, synonyms have tenuous connections at best, and in once case there were two good antonyms for a word because of its different meanings.

That said, I got 5.14%.

There should really be an option for "Don't know" as well.

bpseudopod wrote

Man, I don't like the way this test is designed. Some of the time, you can suss out the correct answer to an unfamiliar word by its part of speech. Sometimes, synonyms have tenuous connections at best, and in once case there were two good antonyms for a word because of its different meanings.

If you thought the vocabularly test was designed poorly at times just take a look at the site's geography test. Someone sure had a field day with that one.

All in One wrote
bpseudopod wrote

Man, I don't like the way this test is designed. Some of the time, you can suss out the correct answer to an unfamiliar word by its part of speech. Sometimes, synonyms have tenuous connections at best, and in once case there were two good antonyms for a word because of its different meanings.

If you thought the vocabularly test was designed poorly at times just take a look at the site's geography test. Someone sure had a field day with that one.

Oh yeah, that one's pretty bad. Most of the time, all the options are from different regions, so you can guess just by that. I managed to get 100% without having even heard of many of the countries! It's also weird how all the maps, even those of different regions, use different colors and such.