Arnaud wrote:aaleks wrote: I came across the test after 2-3 month of studying (about that time I started reading the first Harry Potter book) and it estimated my vocabulary as 4000, or maybe 5000. After 1-1.5 years my vocabulary was about 15000 (of course the numbers aren't accurate or absolute but just estimation). Now according to the test it's 20000 (+/-1000). So it looks like in the last 4 years the size of my vorabulary was growing very slow, especially comparing with the first year. But the main and more important difference between these numbers is not quantity but quality of my knowledge, which the test can't measure or reflect in any way.
Honestly I would be very prudent with that kind of test: I can explose the score with more than 30000 simply because my mother tongue is french: rare words in english coming from french/latin are given and I know them all: the machine deduces that I know a lot of rare words, so extrapolate that I know a lot of english words...That's absolutly not the case.
I agree. There are overlaps with Russian too. Maybe those words aren't 'pure' Russian but loanwords, anyway, I know them as Russian: 'tandem', 'leitmotiv', and so on. Plus words like 'tricorn', that's put in a rare words column, is easily guessable.
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I'm afraid I derailed Xmmm's log . Sorry.