Test your (English) Vocabulary

[Sahson]

I only got 27,500 words and I am guessing that is middling range.

I do agree that most of these words are not used too often, so what's the point really?

My grandparents use a lot of those words, it's where I've heard a lot of those words... I personally think it is a bad representative indicator though. I got 28,200.

Either way theres apparently 540,000 english words...

Yeah, but half the English language comes from French, that puts francophones at an advantage.

And the english a slight advantage in learning French as opposed to German.

[Grumpy Cat]

And the english a slight advantage in learning French as opposed to German.

True. I used to work with French as a Second Language students. The Anglos usually pick it up really fast and can hold down an intelligent conversation in a week or two (but for some reason they always learn how to swear first ).

[Sahson]

True. I used to work with French as a Second Language students. The Anglos usually pick it up really fast and can hold down an intelligent conversation in a week or two (but for some reason they always learn how to swear first ).

This is what was discussed at Unilang. An English speaker will learn French very fast, but a French speaker will learn Italian faster then the English speaker. A German speaker will learn Swedish, faster then the English speaker. However the English speaker will learn Swedish faster then the French or Italian.

The thing is most of English is Latin or French origin, and the latin words that english has is very similar to the french words themselves. But English has a lot of Germanic words like Mardy. The belief is that an Anglophone can learn a Germanic and romance language very well, but not as fast as languages that are closely related to other Germanic or romantic languages...

[Groenewolf]

Am I the only one to get a round number.

20,000

Interesting info on the side bar :

Did you know?

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) contains over 300,000 entries, which take up over 20,000 printed pages.

Maybe time to buy the OED and do some studying.

[Crossbow]

I got 9720, pretty retarded you could say.

[Eldritch]

Am I the only one to get a round number.

20,000

Interesting info on the side bar :



Maybe time to buy the OED and do some studying.

Actually I don't think browsing through dictionaries is a very good way to expand one's active vocabulary. A much better way would be to simply devote some time to reading quality prose by a native English speaker.

[Beorn]

This is what was discussed at Unilang. An English speaker will learn French very fast, but a French speaker will learn Italian faster then the English speaker. A German speaker will learn Swedish, faster then the English speaker. However the English speaker will learn Swedish faster then the French or Italian.

The thing is most of English is Latin or French origin, and the latin words that English has is very similar to the french words themselves. But English has a lot of Germanic words like Mardy. The belief is that an Anglophone can learn a Germanic and romance language very well, but not as fast as languages that are closely related to other Germanic or romantic languages...

Black = English.
Red = English/French.
Blue = Foreign words.

It's funny looking at them all.

[Sahson]

Black = English.
Red = English/French.
Blue = Foreign words.

It's funny looking at them all.

I wouldn't have classified it like that... but the main germanic words are the essentials; prepositions, pronouns, etc...

[Blossom]

My estimated vocabulary size is 17 400 words. Not too great. I guess vocabulary has always been my weak spot when it comes to English. I believe it´s time to practice a little more. I got this bigass Webster´s Dictionary last summer just waiting to be devoured. Oh what fun! Or not.

Haha..beat your ass up, darling!

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:


28,000

words

Tbh, I associated a lot of words with other germanic languages and even latin origin it helps a lot...and realized spanish vocabulary do help a lot when learning English.

[Arrow Cross]

15 000 words. Miserable. There certainly is much work to do here yet.