How patrician is your vocabulary?

[Anonymous No.13043148]

http://testyourvocab.com/

I'm a native English speaker and I only got a little more than 20k. I want to die.

Tip: Use TAB + SPACE so you don't have to click every single box.

[Anonymous No.13043182]

I got 19,200

[Anonymous No.13043192]

10‘900
But to be fair, i‘m not a native speaker. I‘m ok with the result.

[Anonymous No.13043207]

20700
Not my native language.

[Anonymous No.13043221]

24,900
I was expecting worse, not a native speaker
but there were tons of greek and french words
do you actually say embonpoint and polymath in english?

[Anonymous No.13043242]

>>13043148

Last time I did better. This time I scored 37700.

[Anonymous No.13043245]

>>13043221

Yes.

[Anonymous No.13043248]

>>13043221
polymath is used sometimes. It's almost pseudish, but it's descriptive enough to warrant use.

[Anonymous No.13043255]

>>13043242
How does one achieve this?

[Anonymous No.13043257]

>>13043148

26,900 but I would be hard pressed to seamlessly employ a lot of these words in everyday conversation

[R Æ V S S Q A N D V S !KNDYYIIins No.13043263]

[Anonymous No.13043265]

22,800

Non-native, though I am near-native which checks out considering I'm somewhat low on the average for native speakers.

[Anonymous No.13043273]

>>13043148
26,800 Words. Not a native speaker, never visited any English speaking country, but I always fill my daily journals and notes in English, basically the language that I use for forming thoughts. Thanks Anglos.

[Anonymous No.13043274]

32,800
Native UK speaker here.

[Anonymous No.13043275]

>>13043148
im ok with this

[Anonymous No.13043288]

>>13043148
14,000
Non-native, teached myself. Really disappointed with the results, need to study more.

[Anonymous No.13043297]

>>13043257
Well, about 10,000 words is all you need to function at basically 100% capacity in daily conversations and interactions, but I think the more unusual words are still incredibly useful for reading, writing, and thought, in that they are concise ways to express more specific or potentially complex ideas and concepts;

They serve as concise chunks that perhaps free up working memory so that you may populate your working memory with other concise but descriptive words in order for you to make more connections more readily.

[Anonymous No.13043332]

15,400
Not a native speaker tho.

[Anonymous No.13043345]

>>13043255

Be insatiably curious. Study etymology. There were at least two words in those lists I had never seen before but could descry the meaning of with certainty because I knew their roots.

[Anonymous No.13043357]

>28,100
I am terrifyingly anglicised.

t. non-native

[Anonymous No.13043358]

27,100 words, not a native speaker.

>>13043221
>I was expecting worse, not a native speaker
but there were tons of greek and french words
Basically this

[Anonymous No.13043364]

>>13043221
Latinate, especially recently imported (used once or twice by a few academics), are given a kind of prestige in English, this has nothing to do with Norman invasion either, it's a result of Latin being the default language for everything originally. There are plenty of obscure, older, and Germanic words that are neglected. I think if you removed the direct Latinate ones then Romance speakers, particularly French, would find it much harder. By direct I mean recent, unchanged imports rather than Latinate words that are entirely divorced in spelling, meaning, and pronunciation as their source is old. Also, in particular Americans are known for replacing words with imported synonyms because in their minds it increases validity through obscurity.

[Anonymous No.13043366]

>>13043148
32.900
Non-native.
Though I'm native french speaker, so borrowed words are ez.

[Anonymous No.13043379]

>>13043148
31,300
t. non-native zoomer that can pick out latinate words

[Anonymous No.13043383]

i got 39,100

[Anonymous No.13043393]

>>13043383
im a native speaker

[Anonymous No.13043426]

>>13043364
I should also mention that those words are probably more specific than in French, abundance of synonyms makes them specialise to certain senses and uses, some words simply can't be used outside of the one thing they were originally used for (in English). So you may not actually know the English versions despite easily recognising the words.

[Anonymous No.13043428]

>>13043364
>Also, in particular Americans are known for replacing words with imported synonyms because in their minds it increases validity through obscurity.
Yet another proof that the USA should be nuked pronto

[Anonymous No.13043436]

>>13043148
30,000 as a native speaker.
Didn't check words I had heard/read frequently but couldn't define.

[Anonymous No.13043456]

30, 700

Never heard of a lot of those words, let alone know the definition

[Anonymous No.13043480]

>>13043192
Same. I got 17,200. I’m giving ielts exam next month, hope I’ll get a decent score

[Anonymous No.13043490]

>>13043436
>Didn't check words I had heard/read frequently but couldn't define.
Then you're doing it wrong, looks like you've never seen a dick size thread on 4chan

[Anonymous No.13043492]

>28,700 as a native speaker

Happy enough with my result, although a lot of the words I only had a vague idea what they meant, which may or may not have been correct. If I was being more harsh I'd probably score around 24k-26k.

[Anonymous No.13043495]

26,600
okay for a non native speaker, i feel like my actual score would be a bit higher as this didn't go into academic terms at all.

[Anonymous No.13043515]

>>13043148
22400, not native but it is to be expected since 90% of the literature ive read in in last 13-14 years has been in english.

[Anonymous No.13043521]

>>13043148
32,500, last column of the narrow vocab really fucked me up.

[Anonymous No.13043549]

6,700.
I've only read few english book in translation.

[Anon No.13043577]

>>13043148
30700

Native speaker

[Anonymous No.13043581]

>>13043148
27200, on a semi related note to this thread I remember a typing/vocab website where it would give you a definition and you had to type the word.
Anyone know what I am talking about

[Anonymous No.13043632]

http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=11679018
pretty impressive considering I've never even taken any lessons and this is just what I amassed
from the internet

[Anonymous No.13043670]

Native speaker
29,300

[Anonymous No.13043697]

16k
Unironically learned English on 4chan and playing videogames.

[Anonymous No.13043735]

>>13043521
Native speaker, get rekt

[Anonymous No.13043762]

35,100
non-native but I've taken latin and greek language classes so that gives me an advantage

[Anonymous No.13043793]

16,600

am a native
don't care cause im not some incel non native washing self out on anglo contraction identity niggers
lmao at anyone who says insaleability copious have sex

[Anonymous No.13043816]

>>13043793
just imagine the word salads you'd be capable of if you invested some effort into expanding your vocabulary, o hallowed schizo poster.

[Anonymous No.13043843]

>>13043148
24,000, non-native
The only word I knew from colum in the pic was oneiromancy, thanks Witcher 3.

[Anonymous No.13043844]

>>13043816
You think so anon?

[Anonymous No.13043939]

>>13043148
I got 16.200 as a semi-native speaker(Whole family speaks in spanish and english was a close second language so I understand both fluently). I mean we should have to list are ages as-well to see how it effects the results, im 19 first year in uni so I guess I still have alot to go.

[Anonymous No.13043960]

31,800

[Anonymous No.13043994]

>>13043148
It's okay anon, I'm a native English speaker and I got 20300

[Anonymous No.13044020]

>>13043148
21.900. Non-native speaker.

[Anonymous No.13044058]

Native speaker (British) and a linguist.
I'll be honest, a fair few of the obscure words were only familiar to me through having read Lolita. The real advantage I think I have is being extremely pedantic about looking up words I fail to recognise (and then remembering them). Immediately after this test I looked up pule, sparge, opsimath and embonpoint.

[Anonymous No.13044132]

22100

Guess it could be worse.

[Anonymous No.13044150]

>>13043148
>tfw native french speaker
>half of fancy english words are french and i'll never have to learn them

Feels good

[Anonymous No.13044180]

27k

This is deeply disconcerting

[Anonymous No.13044234]

41,200

There were a few words whose meaning I correctly guessed based on etymology, but I didn't mark down.

[Anonymous No.13044547]

>>13043221
>>13043248
Polymath isn't hard to come by, non-native speaker and I've used it several times.

I got a 24,000 which is ok I guess, want it to be higher.

[Anonymous No.13045685]

16,900

Ouch.

[Anonymous No.13045820]

24700
non-native
>And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words.
this is fucking awful

>>13043735
jesus christ, those notifications

>>13043843
I learned "caitiff" from NetHack

[Anonymous No.13045848]

39k. I'm fine with that.

[Anonymous No.13045859]

35,000 but only because I read a lot of surrealist stream of consciousness shiddle.

[Anonymous No.13045873]

35,500, English is my third language after Dutch and French. Feels pretty fuckin good, my score isn't even on the non-native level distribution.

[Anonymous No.13045896]

5390

I'm a mega brainlet

[Anonymous No.13045913]

>>13045896
what the fuck man

[Anonymous No.13045942]

>>13045913
I'm not a native english speaker, I've never read a book written in english and these boards are the only connection I have to english language.

[Anonymous No.13045969]

>>13045913
>>13045942

That being said, How can I improve my vocabulary? This test has shown me that this form of communication will only stunt my brain. Is a good idea to just take a book written in english and just go throught it (for instance Lolita) ?

[Anonymous No.13045989]

>>13045969
I guess just reading voraciously, looking up the definitions to each word you don't know, especially the etymology. I feel like, in relation to reaping the benefits from studying etymology, you'd just be better off learning Latin. That way, you'll have killed two birds with one stone - expanded vocabulary, in addition to learning patrician language.

[Anonymous No.13046001]

>>13045969
Lolita is way too difficult and uses obscure vocabulary. Just read normal things that you'd pick in your native language, but in English.

>>13045989
>I feel like, in relation to reaping the benefits from studying etymology, you'd just be better off learning Latin
Have you studied Latin?

[Anonymous No.13046009]

I need to get laid it's been a while

[Anonymous No.13046011]

>>13046001
No, but someday soon. I'm just guessing Latin would help, because ~30% of English words are Latin derived, mostly French loanwords.

[Anonymous No.13046027]

>>13043148

[Anonymous No.13046029]

>>13043221
>polymath
I see this frequently
>embonpoint
I am a native speaker and I have never seen this word previously, at least as best as I can recall.

[Anonymous No.13046047]

>>13046011
>No, but someday soon
Then don't recommend it if you don't know what you're talking about. The guy's vocab is retard-tier by native speaker standards, and Latin is a beast for itself, a whole fucking language whose etymologies are like 10% of what it offers and demands from the learner. It's ridiculous and unproductive for him to embark on such a project at this point, he has to be able to functionally read English itself first.

[Anonymous No.13046053]

33,300
Native speaker, USA

[Anonymous No.13046070]

>>13046047
>The guy's vocab is retard-tier
> retard-tier

I'm still here :(
I guess I'll read newspapers then.

[Anonymous No.13046103]

>>13043148
23k but i'm not a native speaker so i guess it's okay

[Anonymous No.13046107]

>>13046047
calm down (You) salty sailor, it's pretty intuitive that Latin would help, given that so many English words are derived from it.

[Anonymous No.13046268]

>>13046070
Even you called yourself a brainlet...

>>13046107
You learn a language by learning and using that language, not an another one. An another one might help, but rarely to a great and profitable degree. He won't be learning vocabulary, he'll be spending days learning endless declensions and conjugations and irregular words. By the time the knowledge of Latin helps him in learning that 30% of English vocab (most of which is very specific, erudite language instead of more common stuff), he could've learned way more actual English by using it directly.
I'm a Slav learning Russian and what I'm learning is not helping my own native language - it's literally being contaminated it with Russian (though to a small degree - and there are no other positive influences on it, really), while in Russian I have to spend by far the largest part of time learning and trying to understand the things are completely different from my own language. So, frankly, you sound like a monolingual with a very simplistic view of how languages work.

[Anonymous No.13046298]

35200.

Native speaker, NZ, dropped out of school at 13 and never pursued further education.

[Anonymous No.13046371]

>6,470 here. I got born in the USA and I have trouble with verbs and special meanings of the word such as figuring what exactly a "whiff" looks like or how's a dagger different from a knife, but that don't mean I can't figure from what I read the same, and I got a rich garden of words even if it's small is what my mother had said once in a dream to me.

[Anonymous No.13046380]

>>13043345
Oh so you bullshitted to inflate your score, good to know

[Anonymous No.13046463]

>>13043148
32600 and I'm not native. But to be fair a lot of the difficult words were taken straight from my native language. This makes this test a bit skewed favorably for romance speakers.

[Anonymous No.13046498]

33,000 being as conservative as possible

Learned a couple of the ones at the end from Lovecraft. Joyce helped out with tureen

[Anonymous No.13046561]

17000 native speaker USA
>>13046053
what went wrong brudda?

[Anonymous No.13046580]

>>13043288
>teached
The past-tense form of teach is taught, my pal (not trying to condescend)

[Anonymous No.13046677]

>>13043148
29,300. Native speaker (burger)

[Anonymous No.13046713]

19,700
Non-native, and most of my vocab is reduced to enough to communicate with english speakers without problem, and read books/media in general with the occasional look at the dictionary.

[Anonymous No.13046795]

what a shit format, dropped
might do it later, though

[Anonymous No.13046838]

30k. How do I improve my vocabulary? How do I remember the words I learn?

[Anonymous No.13046840]

>>13044234
>>13044058
how old are you?

38.5k/24yo here

[Anonymous No.13046870]

>>13043148
not a native speaker, got 14,900
made me realize that i really often use context

[Anonymous No.13046893]

30k even burgerclap here

[Anonymous No.13046938]

>>13046298
Kudos no-school bro, I only got a 30'600.

[Anonymous No.13047062]

>>13046380
get into etymology and you'll quit being a salty fuck upon realizing your statement is false

[Anonymous No.13047179]

>>13043148
That's cute, but are you a grammar god?

[Anonymous No.13047231]

32,500 for a non-native. Good, I guess? The test felt a bit pointless to me, but well.

>>13046838

Repetition. I usually learn new words when I start seeing them again and again. I also keep a dictionary on my phone where I note every new word I find.

[Anonymous No.13047312]

>>13043255
Like the other anon said, be curious. All the words I didn't recognize, I went ahead and looked up. There's not really anything better about getting 30k vs 20k, because those extra 10k- we're not using them in common talk (like here, for example), so there's no reason for anyone to be gloating; there's likewise no reason to feel like you're missing out, because if you don't have that inclination to obsessively look shit up, then that's all that that objectively means.

[Anonymous No.13047326]

I guess I did alright.

[Anonymous No.13047338]

23.3k.
I've heard many of the words I didn't check, but I couldn't find define them. And I always forget it's meaning after looking it up

[Anonymous No.13047952]

>>13046561
Our public educational system

[Anonymous No.13047965]

>>13046009
>not having 20 open tabs
How did you acquire this superpower senpai?

[Anonymous No.13047969]

>>13046009
[e-mail] ?

:3

[Anonymous No.13047971]

>>13043364
This. You can easily remove almost all Latin from English. Like you say there are plenty of good but endangered Saxon and even Norman words that could take their place. It’s ironic really, the people who fucked up the English language the most wasn’t the Danes or the Normans or anyone else; it was ourselves with all this disgusting Latin the Enlightenment shoved into its writing which as literacy went up became the norm. Then globalisation destroyed most regional English and now English is spoken mostly by Americanised non-Anglos as a technical or business language which of course just piles on the Latin.

[Anonymous No.13047972]

>>13047969
Sorry that’s the gmail icon

[Anonymous No.13047996]

20,200, native speaker. You only authors who use those big words are pretentious like DFW.

[Anonymous No.13048010]

>>13043148
21500, not native, knowledge of latin seemed to help..

[Anonymous No.13048070]

>>13043148
23800 is a non native

[Anonymous No.13048096]

28,300 words
not a native english speaker (belarus)
the by far largest amount of my english vocabulary i aquired through media such as video games and various internet forums and general online informative websites

[Anonymous No.13048125]

>tfw 35,200

[Anonymous No.13048397]

>>13043148
Typical result for me on tests of this kind, though I sometimes wonder what the true figure is when the specialist lexicons of the arts & sciences are included. Does anyone else here know dithyramb AND Planck length AND echinoderm AND entablature AND continuo? I'm still an idiot, and anything but patrician, just moderately savant. (Dithyramb, by the way, is a shamefully underrated word, which also isn't in the Poetry Foundation's online glossary of terms.)

[Anonymous No.13048457]

>>13047969
>>13047972
Lol email me about lit stuff if you want

[Anonymous No.13048462]

>>13043843
The only reason I know williwaw is from Gore Vidal's book. Whatever tatterdemalion is, it sounds like a kerfuffle either in the making or the result thereof.

[Anonymous No.13048544]

>>13043364
Comparisons of this kind always remind me of an essay by Jacques Barzun where he mentions that there is no Anglo-Saxon substitute for the highfalutin "emergency", as he put it. That the latinate terms in English tend more to the abstract probably owes more to Latin being the language of academia than to anything else. As for one's choice between native or import synonyms (however recently or not imported) that's always a matter of nice judgment, especially with respect to connotation: Intercourse isn't quite the same thing as fucking, and the possible modulations of ironic reversal in the prevailing tone of a context are goddamn endless.

[Anonymous No.13048551]

Is etymology REALLY that necessary for learning new words or expanding vocabulary? Or you could just look up the words you come across while reading and jot them down somewhere to learn them by repetition.
Because learning etymology doesn't ensure that we grasp the accurate meaning of a particular word, or in what different ways it could be used; it just provides us the general sense of it. Isn't learning a word by referring to a corpus of example sentences a better and more effective way?

[Anonymous No.13048552]

>>13043345
>There were at least two words in those lists I had never seen before but could descry the meaning of with certainty because I knew their roots.

So you filled out the test in the wrong way, even though the instructions were so clear?

Idiot

[Anonymous No.13048559]

>>13045989
>you'd just be better off learning Latin

That's fucking retarded advice

[Anonymous No.13048570]

>>13043148
21,500
russian speaker, classes in school were utter shite so most of it was learned online. expected worse

[Anonymous No.13048575]

>>13048559

[Anonymous No.13048581]

>>13043148
I am but an abiturient who lucubrates in oenomancy, yet even I could obambulate with shut orbs and obtain a score of at least 40,000

[Anonymous No.13048597]

Vocabulary is always secondary to sentence structure. You can score a 30k+ but simply knowing more words won't amount to much or have much of an impact if the flow and structure of the sentence is overlooked

[Anonymous No.13048603]

>>13048457
>Poster has 10000 unread mail
>Lol email me about lit stuff if you want
How do I become so based senpai?

[Anonymous No.13048604]

>>13048575
Makes me think of "libertad" as a spoonerism for "libtard", or vice-versa. "Tard" as a suffix is, I prophesy, here for the duration.

[Anonymous No.13048616]

>>13048570
here are my results for russian btw
(est. 92k words, i chose only wrongly, mistook "ontorology" (not a real word) for ontology, better than 99.9% people my age)

[Anonymous No.13048624]

>>13048616
chose one wrongly* also it says i'm better than 92% of total respondents. 2bh i'm just synesthetic and always in search for words that feel tingly

[Anonymous No.13048643]

>>13048616
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.13048659]

>>13048643
18, it says the median is 55.5 for my age

[Anonymous No.13048668]

34,400, am a shitty native speaker and expected a lot lower, still pitiful.

[Anonymous No.13048669]

>>13048624
Greetings fellow synesthete. Do you have a favorite or usual path? Mine goes like this:

Sound to Visions to Words--often in a diction that ranges widely between from gritty to lofty, depending on the mood of what is heard/seen, whether more fit for satire or rhapsody. (By the way, how important is the distinction between "high" and "low" diction in Russian? Does the sense of it work differently than it does in English?)

[Anonymous No.13048682]

>>13048668
I did check and see that I am in the 90th percentile for my age (20), which is rather sad to be honest.

[Anonymous No.13048723]

>>13048669
i usually feel a word, then sometimes there's a short clip or still image that associates with the nature and feeling of said word. like "chernílniy" (inky, or ink as adjective) feels staining and glossingly liquid, an image is the night sky being stirred like ink with glitter

if by diction you mean overall manner of speech - yes, it differs a lot. there are also slangs that can be regarded as separate dictions (prison, entirely swearwords, imageboard, the disgusting newspeak teens use, etc)

[Anonymous No.13048763]

>>13043148
27k.. Norwegian

[Anonymous No.13048777]

Just use context for words desu.

[Anonymous No.13048815]

40,100. I guessed that estivation had something to do with summer, but that's not really close enough.

>>13043221
Embonpoint sounds like a Victorian euphemism from a novel. Polymath is the sort of thing that night turn up in a short biographical description of Leonardo da Vinci written yesterday.

>>13048551
Yes. If you learn the components, you can recognise new combinations. Context usually fills in the rest.

[Anonymous No.13048826]

27.5k
Good enough for a non native speaker I guess

[Anonymous No.13048868]

>>13048551
Etymology certainly helps with memorising words. Taking ‘adumbrate’ as an example, we find that the definition is ‘to outline’ or ‘foreshadow’, but short of rote memorisation, for me at least, this doesn’t really stick. Finding, however, that the word is derived from the Latin ‘umbra’ meaning shadow we then have a reminder of the word’s definition to be readily found within the word itself.
This also preps us for any other time we come across ‘umbra’ in a word such as ‘penumbra’. It can also be pretty fun when you suddenly find new sense in an everyday word like ‘umbrella’.

[Anonymous No.13048888]

>>13048723
Your path is almost the reverse of mine, which is to say it's onomatopoetic. Also, while I'm too old to be corrupted by internet slang and other trash of recent manufacture, I wonder how anyone your age avoids those poisons. Are your habits on the hermetic side?

[Anonymous No.13048892]

25.100

[Anonymous No.13048956]

>>13048888
honestly, only the retarded half of teens uses it unironically. my friends speak the usual kind of language, so does the most of my social sircle, often enriched with specific professional terms, archaic words and references (all for lulz), while the very nature of zoomer newspeak is to shorten the sentence, reduce the vocan and replace original expressions with standartized linguistic "meme" units
(also the reason i unironically like rage comics more than modern template memes - the former were all unique and each was made with an idea in mind. the latter are "lol write word on people in funny pic lmaao me-life hahaha")

[Anonymous No.13048966]

>>13048888
quads check out btw
> while I'm too old to be corrupted by internet slang
i do understand 90+% of said newspeak, but i pretend i don't to force people to talk normally

[Anonymous No.13048979]

Bleh, I don't even use half of this number in a week.

[Anonymous No.13049116]

>>13048956
The difference between an in-joke or subcultural allusion, taken as such--and a vocabulary limited to any particularly small niche of civilization--probably is a defining difference between whether or not someone is an idiot. This is not to say that highly paid professions necessarily exclude idiots, but they would necessarily be incompetent at conversation about anything but their work.

[Anonymous No.13049337]

17500 wtf this can’t be I scored 800 on the sat this must be a mistake

[Anonymous No.13049386]

>>13043148
15 thousand.
I suppose I'm going to look up words from now on instead of just going by the context.

[Anonymous No.13049427]

>>13043148
40,300 nibbas.

[Anonymous No.13049533]

>>13043148
24800 not native, but they were French word which helped me a bit to increase my stat I guess

[Anonymous No.13049549]

>>13043843
The only world I can understand here are French word

[Anonymous No.13049569]

>>13049427
How can that woman have such weird body movements on every single video i've seen of her ? It's like she was born to be a meme.

[Anonymous No.13049582]

>>13043148
29,400
>>13043221
Only snobs use most of the words on the third page.

[Anonymous No.13049689]

16,900, non native

[Anonymous No.13049897]

43,900 non native

Thought I knew less, ugh.

[Anonymous No.13049970]

>18.100
I'm an ESL but my manifested vocabulary is shit both in English and in my mother tongue. Whenever I try to speak I turn into a blabbering fool and forget everything. Fuck anxiety

[Anonymous No.13049992]

>>13049970
Same. Although I got 27k I'm reduced to a blubbering mess because I'm not able to correctly process what I want to say so I pretty much mix up a lot of things at once and it doesn't make much sense

[Anonymous No.13050021]

9,970, but I'm not a native speaker, so I guess it's okay

[Anonymous No.13050059]

Non-native speaker, I'm okay with this

[Anonymous No.13050418]

>>13043148
>30,500
>non-native
that cant be right

[Anonymous No.13050435]

cool

[Anonymous No.13050436]

Yay.

[Anonymous No.13050473]

29,400
Could be better but I’m not upset with the result

[Anonymous No.13050474]

>>13043148
34,000
I guess that seems nice, but this part kind of takes the wind out of my sails:
>Most native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words.

[Anonymous No.13050565]

32,200. The last 2 columns had words I have never even seen.

[Anonymous No.13050636]

17k native

[Anonymous No.13050700]

Is 11,900 good enough ? English is like my third language and I'm mostly self-taught

[Anonymous No.13050719]

>>13043248
calling a word pseudish is prime pseudery

[Anonymous No.13050743]

>>13043148
>21,700
Non-native.

[Anonymous No.13050747]

non-native
whiteys watch out

[Anonymous No.13050750]

24800 as a non-native. Not surprised, as I got my CPE years ago and I've certainly read more text in English than in my native language, thanks to the internet.

[Anonymous No.13050791]

>>13050474
Their population of test takers (self reported) getting 98th percentile on the SAT. So you are still in the high end of people with good vocabularies.

[Anonymous No.13050820]

>27,100
i assume this is high as I’ve always tested 99th percentile in vocabulary. still crazy to think I can only understand like a fifth of my native language

[Anonymous No.13050947]

>>13050820
If your native language is English, I thought it was estimated to have over a million words.

[Anonymous No.13051052]

26,500
English native
Recognized a lot more words than I checked off but only marked the ones I positively knew without guessing. Kind of doubt some of the last ones are anything other than declined Latin words

[Anonymous No.13051114]

29,700 words here. Not bad I guess

Non-native Dutchie who has basically been busy with the language for as long as I could read. Internet taught me a lot

[Anonymous No.13051161]

>>13043148
Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
6,960
not surprised, i hate nglish and i am not a native speaker. In my idiot i would probably get a lot

[Anonymous No.13051190]

native
29,600

[Anonymous No.13051210]

23,400
My speaking vocabulary is pretty close to it desu just because I like fucking with people

[Anonymous No.13051213]

native
26,200

im australian though

[Anonymous No.13051257]

29,200
native speaker, i feel like a dunce :(

[Anonymous No.13051282]

36,400.

Can't complain?

[Anonymous No.13051378]

So many none native english speakers on /lit/.

What's your first language?

[Anonymous No.13051383]

>>13051213
Might as well be none native speaking.

[Anonymous No.13051535]

>>13051114
How do you hone your skills? 4chan and casual browsing haven't improved me even a tiny bit. I might have even regressed vocabulary -wise

[Anonymous No.13051645]

27,500

Native speaker, don't read much though. Bit disappointed in this. I was reasonably strict on not ticking stuff though.

[Anonymous No.13051657]

28K
Not bad, but knowing a lot of words is hardly something worth bragging about—You have to be able to use them in the correct situations, and know when to use normal words to avoid sounding like a fucking dickhead

[Anonymous No.13051702]

26,600, non-native

[Anonymous No.13051715]

>>13043274
Same result, but I'm ESL.
At this point I might have more vocabulary in English than in my first language.

[Anonymous No.13051722]

>>13051657
Yep. Words are only worth learning in context. If you just memorize a ton of words you don't know the conventions around using them.

[Anonymous No.13051730]

>>13045969
For starters, check out the meaning of all the words in the test.

[Anonymous No.13051981]

>>13051730
>>13051535
>>13045969
Maybe not the words on the right column on the later screens. You'll never see those again.

[Anonymous No.13052580]

22900, native speaker, it hurts. I understand that /lit/ would do well in the test considering that it's likely that you guys started reading seriously long before I did, haha.

[Anonymous No.13052639]

>>13051730
I had thought of doing that some years ago; now my results on this test are inaccurate.

[Anonymous No.13052910]

>>13051730
>>13045969
The best way is to learn new words in context that is interesting to you (a book) and then, and that's the important step to really store the information, you need to use them communicating with others (lmao)

[Anonymous No.13052943]

35,800

uses the dictionary :)

[Anonymous No.13053071]

>>13043148
16800, not a native speaker.

[Anonymous No.13053162]

28,700

I used to read only fiction, which meant that I had to look up a lot of words. My vocabulary must have become worse since then because I used to know some of them

[Anonymous No.13053198]

>>13052943

Have sex.

[Anonymous No.13053214]

20700
Not a native

>>13043843
I recognize regnant because of GoT but I didn't see it while taking the test

[Anonymous No.13053263]

>>13048581
I'm just going to reply for rewarding your effort of coming up with such a pointless show-off.
Congratulations, your penis is now 0.1 cm longer.

[Anonymous No.13053269]

9 480, non-native speaker.
What a shame

[Anonymous No.13053314]

>>13043816
45,000 Finnish native. Frankly, a bit too easy.
Embarrassing that you faggots get insecure over this shit

[Anonymous No.13053343]

>>13043255
Read books

[Anonymous No.13053349]

Britbong here, 38,100

[Anonymous No.13053369]

>>13052910
>and then, and that's the important step to really store the information, you need to use them communicating with others
Native English speaker here. I find that with foreign languages, but not English. If I've read an English word once and learnt the meaning, that's usually enough to remember it next time. Seems like it -has- to work like that, in fact- you surely always know far more words than you have actually used, especially when you're a child.

[Anonymous No.13053708]

Not a native speaker, got 31,000 the last time I did it.

I know very advanced words but still ignore certain basic words though.

[Anonymous No.13053722]

>>13046009
>10,515 e-mails in inbox
That's the word count of some posters here lol

[Anonymous No.13053746]

>>13045896
6000 for me

i knew your feel bro

t. non native

[Anonymous No.13053752]

25200

ESL, never lived in an English speaking country, but I guess that's not really such terrible disadvantage now with internet and all. I can still argue in English with you faggots to my heart's content.

[Anonymous No.13053922]

>>13043148

23,200

huh im not even native english

[Anonymous No.13054043]

>that entire last column on the last page
pure pseudery ur an ultra fag if you use any of those in your novels in progress remember that /lit/

[Anonymous No.13054053]

>>13054043
I mean come the fuck on look at this bullshit

>>13043843
>The only word I knew from colum in the pic was oneiromancy, thanks Witcher 3.
ultra-kek that's how I got that one too

[Anonymous No.13054105]

http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=11689250
42300.

[Anonymous No.13054122]

>>13054105
Non native, never been in english speaking countries. Just passed 10 years reading autistically.

[Anonymous No.13054131]

>>13043148
30k
fr*nch is an effeminate language and I refuse to recognise fr*nch influence

[Anonymous No.13054282]

>All these dumb french fags who never heard of faux amis and just blindly assumed the words have the same definition in both languages without actually knowing for sure.
You score is inflated.

[Anonymous No.13054320]

Wtf is wrong with you guys. I got 30k and am only a year out of highschool.

Step it up retards

[Anonymous No.13054453]

>>13054053
A few of them are nothing special like "regnant", "fuliginous", "funambulist" or "deracinate". Others are very rare and tricky to use. Anyway, they can be used for fun.

[Anonymous No.13054460]

>>13054282
It's the same for almost all these words though, especially the rarest ones.

[Anonymous No.13054529]

29700

t. native

[Anonymous No.13054632]

28,300
Not too bad.
My SAT score contributed big time.

[Anonymous No.13054711]

>>13054453
Off the top of my head, "regnant" means "ruling", "fuliginous" is "sooty", and "deracinate" is "remove from roots", I think.
I haven't seen "funambulist" before.

[Anonymous No.13054723]

>>13054053
Americans should know tricorn as a hat style in fashion in the 1770s.

[Anonymous No.13056330]

>>13046107
Derived, mostly by incorporation of french words. Latin itself does almost nothing for your understanding of English. It's only useful if you want to figure out some intellectual terms for which a native expression exist anyways.
That guy has the vocabularly of a native pre-schooler or thereabouts and you suggest he learns Latin, instead of just picking up a book and reading English.

You are a /lit/ pseud personified.

[Anonymous No.13056350]

>>13054043
cope

[Anonymous No.13056478]

i got 35,500

i am ESL

[Anonymous No.13056654]

32,000
based, latin, spanish and french helped a ton, actually.

[Anonymous No.13056733]

31.000
Non native speaker. Primary language is German. When I wasn't certain, I didn't mark the word.

Writing smut helps, I guess.

[Anonymous No.13057421]

ITT: LIARS

[Anonymous No.13057644]

19,900
native

[Anonymous No.13058063]

>>13043148

28,200
Native speaker.

I should read more.

[Anonymous No.13058225]

39,000 lot of cliche 10 cent words

[$†@¢k̂$ ¤ñ Ðə©k̂ No.13058254]

THREADS LIKE THESE ARE FULL OF LIARS
ANYONE WITH A SCORE HIGHER THAN ME LIED ON THE TEST. ESPECIALLY A FOREIGNER
26900 NATIVE

[Anonymous No.13058290]

>>13043148
23,900 better than i thought i would get.

[Anonymous No.13058312]

>>13056330
Thank you for staying monolingual. It's hard to learn a second language when you're retarded anyway.

[Anonymous No.13058354]

28,100
Native
Frankly, I'm ashamed.

[Anonymous No.13058396]

>>13058254
Foreigners spell better. You won't see them committing mistakes like "there" instead of "their"

[$†@¢k̂$ ¤ñ Ðə©k̂ No.13058421]

>>13058396
EVEN IF THAT WERE TRUE, I SEE TOO MANY GRAMMATICAL MISTAKES FROM FOREIGNERS TO BELIEVE THEY KNOW MORE OBSCURE, ARCHAIC WORDS THAN MYSELF

[Anonymous No.13058687]

11000
Non-native, self-taught, never been abroad in an English speaking country. I expected more.
>Is this your first or second language
Wtf, it's my 4th, why are there no more options here?

[Anonymous No.13058962]

>>13058254
They most likely lie to themselves about knowing some words simply because they don't look completely novel to them. If they were prompted to give a definition for each of the words they marked, I'm sure they would fail to do so for many.

[Anonymous No.13058985]

42,100

>>13058687
I guess you don't know the definition of second language ;)

[Anonymous No.13059111]

>>13058312
He, I'm actually >>13056733, kiddo.
In addition to English I actually also learned Latin. So I know what I'm talking about.

Aber danke für das Kompliment, dass du mich mit einem englischen Muttersprachler verwechselt hast. Andererseits, du bist die Art pseudointellektueller Gehirnfurz, der meint den Wortschatz einer lebendigen Sprache bessert man am besten durch Lernen einer toten Sprache auf.

Stultus es!

[Anonymous No.13060242]

15800 words
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=11694505

English is my 4th language.
Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, English.

[Anonymous No.13060272]

>>13043148
23,500 words for me as a non-native speaker. I honestly expected way less, since I didn't know 90% of the words on the second page.

[Anonymous No.13060612]

>>13060242
Tigan

[Anonymous No.13060673]

17.5k Non native and never been to an English speaking country.

[Anonymous No.13060706]

>>13059111
No, no, no, that will not be necessary. You've already left quite an impression, there's no need to impress me further.

[Anonymous No.13060739]

>>13047179
LINK

[Anonymous No.13060784]

http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=11695521
genius coming through ladies and gents

[Anonymous No.13062463]

8,3k

non native

[Anonymous No.13062537]

I expected lower

[Anonymous No.13062683]

23.000, shitalian. Gott strafe albione etc.

[Anonymous No.13063112]

39,400, native speaker. But I mostly write in Italian (for monies work) and German (for Phd work). Honestly this makes me question why I ever learned these godawful languages. I should've stuck with the King's (President of the USA) English.

I live in Milan and I want to kill myself. Where should I move to to make better use of my skills?

[Anonymous No.13063215]

>>13043288
10,600
But I've literally followed the instructions, I felt that I was familiar with the meaning of many words which I haven't checked on - but I was not 100% certain and I would probably be incapable to articulate it properly on the spot.

Not-native tho.

[Anonymous No.13063461]

>>13043221
theres tons of colloquial and archaic words in there. Ragamuffin? im pretty sure that word went out of fashion around the same time as chimney sweeps.

[Anonymous No.13063473]

Got 21,300 as a native speaker a lot of these words are so archaic they aren't even used at all in every day speech.

[Anonymous No.13063577]

I don't particularly read too much these days. I also feel society lacks a pressing demand to expand beyond this level of vocabulary aside from some specific trade language in Medicine or Science which tend to be Latin. The advent of widespread radio and telephonic communication has caused a reduction in vocabulary because both parties can clarify their intent instantly. Sending a letter in the 19th century and earlier meant the author had to be precise with word selection because it could take weeks or months before a reply would happen.

[Anonymous No.13063662]

>>13043148
I took the test twice. First time I got 20,900. Second time 25,000. Overall, I think I have around 21-23,000, which I think is above average but not stellar. I tend to remember a lot of words but forget their meanings, which I quickly check on electronic dictionary. For example, I remembered knowing the definition of sedulous awhile back, but I had forgotten it at that moment due to headache or lack of using it frequently. I think imageboard subculture is bad for vocabulary.

Also, from all of the IQ tests I took online, I scored around 121-123 while most were saying 130+. I think only the people who score well on these tests are willing to comment here, which gives off the impression this board is smarter than it is.

[Anonymous No.13063745]

34 600 words as a non-native speaker. I speak spanish natively as well as french, portuguese, italian and german so i guess that's why i know many of the latin words there. Also i read a lot of non-fiction, mostly in english.

[Anonymous No.13063766]

Got 40k but I feel like English natives are at a disadvantage. French is my first language and I have studied Latin extensively as well. Most of those words I know because of that, not because I know English.

[Anonymous No.13063804]

Got 37k as a native speaker, but I think that was largely due to the fact I used to compete in spelling bees and very jargon heavy debate competitions when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.13063836]

english major from poland five years out of university
never visited any english speaking countries and I work a completely unrelated job

[Anonymous No.13063842]

About what I expected. I did pretty well on the narrow section until the last column.

[Anonymous No.13063918]

>>13043366
Guaranteed you don't actually know the definitions of words you think are "borrowed", meanings change between languages. Many English speakers make this mistake when going to French or Spanish or other Romance languages, they recognize a word that is basically the same as in English, but the meaning is very different. This actually caused legal problems before.

[Anonymous No.13064066]

>>13043345
He's not wrong. You bullshitted your results. You didn't follow the rules so you skewed the results you brainlet. This whole test is stupid though. Can't estimate the word count of people by extrapolating from a list of a few dozen mostly obscure or archaic words. Also can't rely on the results to have any statistical significance since most will be bullshit tests where people don't follow the rules or just test out the evaluation.

[Pajeet No.13064952]

26700 - pajeet who can only speak English though born in India

[Anonymous No.13064994]

>>13064952
If you're not south indian, then fuck off you cringey wannabe. Also, even if you're from South India, you should know something about the language you were brought around. Your claim is a hard sell, and of anything shows how incompetent you are.

[Anonymous No.13065000]

>>13064994
brought up around*
and if anything*

[Anonymous No.13065220]

native

Lots were because I know French though

[Anonymous No.13065223]

>>13047312
This

[Anonymous No.13065451]

>>13045969
If you want a system, not that I can personally recommend this I just came across it myself recently so take it with a grain of salt, but the book How to Study in College includes a section on vocabulary and how to improve it - I think they call it the frontier system or something like that. The 10th edition is up on Gen lib.

[Anonymous No.13065593]

>>13043148
41,300

being scholar is suffering

[Anonymous No.13065650]

31.4k, and the minimum for posting on /lit/ should be 30k

[Anonymous No.13065675]

19,400
I felt I did pretty poorly.

[Anonymous No.13065904]

>>13043148
Wow, and I thought I knew very few words, but compared to some people here, wew lad. 34,000

[Anonymous No.13065940]

>>13054723
Which this chick famously donned to wink at her yank ways. I can't think of a tricorn hat without thinking of her.

[Anonymous No.13065975]

>>13043148
35,700
Why does that factory look like it's fucking? Is this Socialist Surrealism?

[Anonymous No.13066917]

>>13043182
>>13043192
welcome my fellow brainlet brothers

[Anonymous No.13068144]

23400, non native, feels bad man.