Team Me: Foxing Around

[reineke]

Your receptive vocabulary is 21400 word families. Your honesty index is 100%, you didn't check any non-words and chose right options for all multiple-choice questions. So, how do you stack up?

First, let's compare with native speakers. A native speaker of age 6 knows on average 6000 words. This number goes up to 15500 by graduation from high school at age 18. An adult's vocabulary varies from 16000 to 19000 words. Your vocabulary is larger than of an average native speaker.

Second, let's compare your results to the ones of non-native speakers. Your result is better than 100% of test takers'

http://www.myvocab.info/en

Thanks, aaleks!

[reineke]

Jan - Feb

ESP 74 hours
Lum la chica invasora
Inuyasha
Gravity Falls
A lot of cartoons.
Looked up "me cachis en la mar" and 2-3 other things
RU 18 hours
FRA 12 hrs
GER 10 hrs
Altered Carbon, 7 eps
PORT 10 hrs
ITA 8 hrs

Where else can I pass off 100 episodes of a TV show as a "progress report".

[reineke]

MON - TUE ESP
WEN -SUN ESP, POR, FRA, RU

Today I'm listening to a lot of French. French likes me.
GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka is a crash course in French slang and colloquialisms.

A metaphor about language learning:

[reineke]

Gaston

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Detektiv Conan

https://youtu.be/IT7C__XvsPc

I listened to a mixture of languages. Mostly TV. Cartoons. Breaking Bad.
Ansichten eines Clowns (audiobook).

[reineke]

Edit: "truli" link

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I like these guys.

March - April

Ru: finished Salem''s Lot (audiobook). I made it about half way into Dreamcatcher. I listened to the toilet scene at least a dozen times. Very useful stuff. I also watched some TV.
French: TV.
Polish: music, Ogniem i Mieczem, Quo Vadis (audiobooks - random chapters).
Czech: Svejk audiobook (a few hours). While the experience was encouraging, I am in no hurry with this one.
Japanese: Urusei Yatsura. I have also ripped the audio and I am occasionally listening to it. I recognized some of the vocabulary I learned in 2007.
Italian: music
Spanish: some TV
Portuguese: Very little, I'm afraid.
German: audiobook tracks here and there. I'll tap on Golo Mann's History of Germany and choose a random track. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. I put that one accidentally on "shuffle". It was great.

[reineke]

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I like listening to Polish. Among other things it reminds me of the progress I made with Russian.

The great battle for Polish. I have deleted everything Polish from my phone so many times that I am afraid I will corrupt my memory card. The upside is that each time I delete and then restore Polish I put some order into my files. My phone is now a lean, mean language learning machine. Btw, I have 0 memorization apps. This brings me to my next conundrum: getting Japanese into my head. Japanese has always been in my dreams my to-do list. I can however only manage Japanese and Polish in small bites. Anything more than that and I might get stuck since I have every intention of continuing to indulge in the other 8 languages.

[Expugnator]

In the past two posts you've answered more of iguanamon's questions about your language background than in your entire forum lifetime, reineke.