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GPH

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Vocab
« on: July 28, 2011, 07:25:07 pm »
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I have the vocab of a 31 year old apparently...which is backed up by people describing my language as 'mature' <_<
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Re: Vocab
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2011, 07:42:52 pm »
Approximate vocabulary is 28,100 words (putting me with GPH for "age" of 31).

I need to work on reading more...
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Re: Vocab
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2011, 08:04:42 pm »
23,000 words for me. I need to read a *lot* more apparently. :P

Of course, the test was also 100% standard lit, so it's missing tech stuff as well as the kind of stuff common in SF and Fantasy.
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Re: Vocab
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2011, 01:20:12 am »
It says 9340 words, but that's probably because I've never taken those stupid tests and they just assume foreigners suck at english :P
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Re: Vocab
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2011, 10:11:50 pm »
Actually being a non-native english speaker you did pretty well. If you look at the blog section theres a bit where they discuss non-native english speakers.

Average was 7kish. The main difference seems to be with those people who have spent years abroad though. Just one year abroad ups the average to 9k and another 1-2k for each additional year. Point being I suppose that theres simply no need to know the definition of most words because they come up so infrequently, so you can be fluent in a language without needing loads of superfluous words :P
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Re: Vocab
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2011, 12:29:03 am »
Quote from: GPH on August 02, 2011, 10:11:50 pm
Actually being a non-native english speaker you did pretty well. If you look at the blog section theres a bit where they discuss non-native english speakers.

Average was 7kish. The main difference seems to be with those people who have spent years abroad though. Just one year abroad ups the average to 9k and another 1-2k for each additional year. Point being I suppose that theres simply no need to know the definition of most words because they come up so infrequently, so you can be fluent in a language without needing loads of superfluous words :P

I'd like to do exceptionally well! Also, your english is GHASTLY! Mine is... wunderbar!

Sigh thats another language :(
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