What is your vocabulary level and favourite book, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18532754]

Post and compare vocabulary scores

http://testyourvocab.com/

[Anonymous No.18532760]

Probably not that great.

[Anonymous No.18532778]

>>18532760
Well test it to be sure and post here. You never know.

[Anonymous No.18532805]

I'm fairly certain 90% of the last column of words are fake

[Anonymous No.18532815]

>>18532778
I got 29,300 words, which seems kind of small to me. English is my first langauge. Is this too small, should i read more to expand it?

>>18532805
I knew three of the words in the last column: malapropism, tenebrous, triconre, but didn't know most of them.

[Anonymous No.18532819]

>>18532805
Very impressive. How often do you read fiction?

[Anonymous No.18532846]

>>18532815
Depends on your age

[Anonymous No.18532868]

>>18532846
70th percentile, so pretty low. will this limit me in any way? should i aspire to expand this, or to improve some other aspect that will increase my vocab? or should i not give a shit

[Anonymous No.18532915]

>>18532868
70th percentile is above average. I don't know if it will limit you. Vocabulary has a strong correlation with IQ.

[Anonymous No.18532942]

>>18532915
>70th percentile is above average.
yes

>Vocabulary has a strong correlation with IQ.
i know a lot about statistics. data can be highly correlated in misleading ways. for instance, look at people with extremely low iqs: developmentally disabled children. what's their vocab going to be? this is sufficient to establish even a strong correlation. i'm not sure what my quesiton is, but being only 70th percentile in vocab might be indicative that i don't read enough actual books -- internet content is pretty devoid of interesting language.

[Anonymous No.18532949]

>>18532819
I read maybe 20~ hours a week. For every 2 hours of light reading (usually fiction or poetry) I try to spend 1 hour reading something a bit challenging

[Anonymous No.18532952]

>>18532942
Well the users of that website have an average SAT score of 700. The average SAT score is 500.

[Anonymous No.18532960]

>19600
FUCK. YOU. of course I don't know the exact definition of all those words, I just read them and guess what they most likely mean based on the rest of the sentence. FUCK YOU.

[Anonymous No.18532970]

>>18532754
This test is gay and fails to filter lying pseuds, take this instead: http://vocabulary.ugent.be

[Anonymous No.18532972]

>>18532960
sounds like you're learning new words every time you read
just keep reading anon

[Anonymous No.18532978]

ESL here
My fav book is Dr Faustroll by Alfred Janny

[Anonymous No.18532979]

>>18532754
Not far off - I've been officially tested before and was in the 90 somethingish percentile.

[Anonymous No.18532997]

Seems about right, I guess? I’ve never considered vocabulary to be a strong suit of mine. Also most of the weirder words that I knew were from playing video games, not reading books.

[Anonymous No.18533001]

>>18532868
Remember what kind of people are taking this test. I got an 800 on the verbal SAT and I'm only 60th percentile.
Also I knew uxoricide, and I refuse to believe that 40% of people know uxoricide.

[Anonymous No.18533003]

[Anonymous No.18533009]

>>18532970
It says I know "74% of the English words".
Ma fav book is still Dr Faustroll by Alfred Janny

[Anonymous No.18533010]

>>18532972
I will anon, thanks. but this is really disheartening, as I'm a native English speaker who reads a fair amount, and have been writing my own book. I suppose I shouldn't let it get to me though, none of this matters as ebonics will most likely become the official language of my country before I die

[Anonymous No.18533012]

>>18533001
>I refuse to believe that 40% of people know uxoricide.
Where did you get that figure from?

[Anonymous No.18533030]

>>18532970
this test is both more fun and more tedious
I'm a bit embarrassed over some of the obvious ones I got wrong but overall this test is over congested with really common words

[Anonymous No.18533041]

>>18533030
>he doesn't know what "streptokinase" and "armamentarium" mean

[Anonymous No.18533058]

>>18532970
much easier as we don't need to know the definition.

[OP No.18533079]

>>18532970

[Anonymous No.18533084]

Saved by the words with latin roots.
I just started reading in English, I'll retake the test in six months.

[Anonymous No.18533086]

>>18532805
They're not fake but they are both incredibly obscure (duh) and of non-Latin origin; e.g. I had "williwaw (wut)" and "caitiff" (which I knew from playing CRPGs)

>>18533012
uxor = wife, cide = kill.

[OP No.18533097]

>>18533086
I asked him where he got the 40% figure from. Is he assuming that 40% of people know that? Did he see that figure somewhere?

[Anonymous No.18533104]

>>18532754
>http://testyourvocab.com/
Why do I have to be a low-IQ brainlet. Should I just rope?

[Anonymous No.18533105]

>>18532970
much better than the 19600 I got on the other one, what a relief. not great, but not below average. there's hope for me yet

[Anonymous No.18533115]

>>18532754
OH FUCK OH SHIIIIIIT IM GONNA V-
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD OOOOOOH MYYYY gooooOOOOOD
IM GONNA VOOOOOO-
I'M VOCABBING!!!!!!!!!1
Shut the fuck up, there are easier ways to feel superior

[OP No.18533116]

>>18533104
Might be a workable score if you are young.

[Anonymous No.18533121]

>>18533115
t. sub 20k vocabber

[Anonymous No.18533131]

>>18533115
>takes every social activity personally
sure it's a test but as your meme rotted brain is struggling to say, vocab ain't shit
just hang out and share your results weirdo. socialize

[Anonymous No.18533139]

>>18533097
I got 60th percentile, but I knew uxoricide. So 40 percent of people taking this test have a better vocabulary than someone who knows uxoricide. I was just trying to say that the people who choose to take this test are people with above average vocabularies.
They might share stats if you dig around the site though.

[Anonymous No.18533151]

>>18533116
24 y/o... 2 associates degrees (not sure if community college failed me or I failed it)... I'm not sure that I have a redemption arc on the horizon lol

[OP No.18533153]

>>18533115
My score is mediocre, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.18533155]

On the Road by Jack Karouac, Capital by Marx,
or anything by Oscar Wilde, oh no! I'm running out of words! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.18533164]

>>18533155

[Anonymous No.18533188]

>>18533086 here, I do like this test better although I do assume that people are being relatively honest on the other one.

>>18533041
streptokinase sounds like an enzyme but since I didn't specifically know which one it is/what it does I said no. I now see that It's Real.

[Anonymous No.18533208]

>>18532754

21,300, english is my secondary language, self-taught. I fall into the native range 20.000-35.000. Pretty good I'd say.

[Anonymous No.18533210]

60th percentile

[Anonymous No.18533252]

>>18532815
There's this caveat:
>Now, remember that these percentiles are not for the population as a whole, but rather just those who have taken the test online. Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole — it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet!

[Anonymous No.18533258]

>>18532754
oh hey I took this text about a year ago and it said I had 18 thousand words and now I took it again a year later (did it 3 times to be sure) and it said I had 19 thousand.
that's neat

[OP No.18533275]

>>18533258
Everybody's score improves as they age until they are around 60 years old.

[Anonymous No.18533283]

>>18533252
i'd post that image of autofellatio that I know you're familiar with, but this is a blue board. either way, you're right, and this has been pointed out earlier in the thread. i think my original mistake was an aspiration i had in an absolute sense (i want to richly understand and use english) vs. a relative sense (i want to futher deepen and color my english.). thanks for reading my blog.

[Anonymous No.18533297]

They say non-natives usually know 2500-9000 words so I guess I'm ok

[Anonymous No.18533311]

22,600, multiplied by the six languages I'm trying to maintain
so >100,000

[Anonymous No.18533333]

>>18532778
20100 words. But this test is a bit of bullshit.

[Anonymous No.18533342]

>>18532754
29,100
My favourite book is Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.18533380]

19,100 words
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=16535011
I'm esl (it helps that some unusual words in English are similar to very common ones in Italian)

[Anonymous No.18533381]

Anyone getting over 25k is a big fat liar.

[Anonymous No.18533388]

>>18533151
read more and use a dictionary

[Anonymous No.18533402]

>>18533381
they just like reading dictionaries

[Anonymous No.18533408]

69

[Anonymous No.18533417]

>>18533380
ah I forgot, my favourite book... I'm not sure, maybe the Brother's Grimms Tales? hahaha I don't read that much, I'm trying to change that

[Anonymous No.18533481]

>>18533402
>>18533388
An e-reader is useful for that

[Anonymous No.18533554]

14,600 and my favourite book is Dubliners

[Anonymous No.18533577]

>>18533554
stupid ass xD errbody come look at stupid here

[Anonymous No.18533834]

Boomp eet

[Anonymous No.18533895]

>>18532754
eh
for an ESL it's decent enough

[Anonymous No.18533972]

It’s over

[Anonymous No.18533989]

>>18533972
>its over
Your brief post of resignation made me kek hard if that's any consolation

[Anonymous No.18534015]

>>18533086
>which I knew from playing CRPGs
I laughed at how many of the words were just grognard shit that a literature professor probably wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.18534045]

I've improved since last time.

[Anonymous No.18534053]

ESL here

[Anonymous No.18534079]

Not native btw

[Anonymous No.18534113]

dumb American with a CS degree

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY3cHnRY No.18534261]

I DO NOT HAVE ONE FAVOURITE BOOK.

[Anonymous No.18534265]

>>18534261
List your top 10 in no particular order

[tourist No.18534729]

>>18533972
wordlet never learns

[Anonymous No.18534892]

I got 10k.

[Anonymous No.18534929]

>>18532754
38,600. Seems like a terrible way to test vocabulary, wonder how accurate it is?

[Anonymous No.18535168]

>tfw peak midwit
English is my native language, but I speak Japanese 90% of the day for the past 6 years or so. I've noticed my English skill has decisively gone to shit. It's such a weird feeling, watching yourself retard down your mother tongue.

[Anonymous No.18535212]

>>18532754
I guess if you put a gun to my head I'd have to say The Road
>>18534261
I'm sorry but you are full of shit

[Anonymous No.18535263]

>>18535212
Hey we're twins

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY3cHnRY No.18535269]

>I'm sorry but you are full of shit

[Anonymous No.18535275]

>>18534929
Forgot my favorite book.

[Anonymous No.18535277]

>>18535263
nice

[Anonymous No.18535390]

>>18532754
I know five languages. They don't make tests for people like me. Enjoy your monoglot faggotry though.

[Anonymous No.18535425]

>>18532846
Holy fuck I knew I was retarded but I'm literally like 25th percentile. I refuse to believe that.

[Anonymous No.18535439]

>>18535425
>he doesn't realise people lie, a lot

[Anonymous No.18535444]

>>18535269
Is your keyboard fixed now?

[Anonymous No.18535452]

>>18535439
lol what's the point. It's anonymous.

[Anonymous No.18535474]

>Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 21,200 words
>On the basis of your results, we estimate you know 70% of the English words.
>40th percentile
Mostly read trashy web fiction and it's never challenging. I should read more stories that make me look at up a word a couple times a chapter but I'm usually not interested in them. The original REH Conan stories used some interesting vocabulary that actually fit the context and mood perfectly. You could guess at the meaning pretty well with the sound of the worlds fitting the prose like poetry. It quickly made things feel more occult, ancient, and fantastic. Unfortunately, most authors I've seen that do step out of bounds of primary/secondary school vocab seem to try too hard like they forced themselves to use a thesaurus for school credit or something.

[Anonymous No.18535495]

Surprised to be honest, made sure to jot down the words I didn't know though. Anyone know a good way to improve your vocab? (other than reading and dicuonary surfing) Any decent apps or websites?

[Anonymous No.18535541]

>>18535495
When you look up a word you do not know also look up usage and etymology, your vocab will go up quickly. This will also give you a much better understanding of the words and you will not be limited by dictionary definitionw which tend to stick to just common uses.

[Anonymous No.18535545]

>>18535495
Anki, if you feel like tryharding it.

[Anonymous No.18535563]

>>18535495
Also:
>On the basis of your results, we estimate you know 86% of the English words.
I said yes to three made up words, but I'm sure they were the incorrect hybrids like uncovertly.

[Anonymous No.18535997]

Oh, it's the recurring thread in which I post that it is just a game, just like IQ tests. Actual smart people understand that measuring popularity of words is the same as measuring popularity of writers: it doesn't tell you anything about the qualities of specific authors and readers.

[Anonymous No.18536334]

39600 but it misestimates field specialist.

[Anonymous No.18536358]

>>18535997
You sound a little stupid, don't even understand the point of the thread.

[Anonymous No.18536364]

>>18536358
This is the thread to post your Counter-Strike rating.

[Anonymous No.18536376]

I got 30,600.

In addition to the unchecked words in pic related, I also didn't know tureen, valetudinarian, pule. I literally learned oneiromancy the other day.

[Anonymous No.18536377]

33900
my fav book is M-D

[Anonymous No.18536378]

>>18532754
>19 cm
>The holy quran

[Anonymous No.18536383]

>>18536376
oneiromancy is easy because its made of two well known greek words

[Anonymous No.18536386]

>>18536383
>oneiro
What other word features this tho?

[Anonymous No.18536387]

>>18533283
What is a blue board?

[Anonymous No.18536389]

>>18536364
Have you ever had fun?

[Anonymous No.18536418]

>>18536386
oneiric

[Anonymous No.18536433]

>>18533208
What's your native language?

[Anonymous No.18536447]

23,700

I'm going to go read some more

[Anonymous No.18536460]

>>18535997
Post your score or gtfo

[Anonymous No.18536463]

>>18532942
Linguistic based tests are some of the most reliably predictive due to how much of the brain they stress to function

[OP No.18536465]

>>18536376
You don't know what midriff means???

[Anonymous No.18536481]

>33,800
I think I need to read more widely, modern language is almost too simplified

[Anonymous No.18536488]

>>18536387
Look at the colour of this page, now go to
https://boards.4chan.org/d and compare the page colour

[Anonymous No.18536491]

>>18533155
Audible kek.

[Anonymous No.18537046]

Native language is Russian, love classical English lit

[Anonymous No.18537302]

>>18532754
18,900
Not bad for a second language. Although I knew some words but didn't check.

[Anonymous No.18537315]

>>18532970
Feeling good for an ESL

[OP No.18537322]

Too many fucking ESLs on my board

[Anonymous No.18537325]

how long will it take me to expand my vocabulary by 10 thousand bros?

[Anonymous No.18537334]

>>18537046
How old are you?
I'm Russian myself but my result is not impressive like yours

[Anonymous No.18537359]

>>18532754
http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=16538497
since english is not my native language, it's above the average

[Anonymous No.18537366]

[Anonymous No.18537397]

>>18532970
this test is a bit annoying though since it has scientific terms

[Anonymous No.18537403]

I have many favorite books. I cannot declare any single book as my favorite. Five of my favorite books: The Count of Monte Cristo, Anna Karenina, 2666, Lolita, Flashman

[Anonymous No.18537446]

>>18537322
Are you surprised? Your average anglo can't understand, let alone appreciate, literature. Of course, there are outliers, we are talking about Redneck Ryan and Hooligan Howard here.

[Anonymous No.18537452]

>23000 as a zoomer ESL
Is it good?

[Anonymous No.18537593]

>>18537446
I am. Aren't there European alternatives to 4chan?

[Anonymous No.18537684]

>>18533972
for me

[Anonymous No.18537691]

>>18537684
Wow I'm surprised you were even able to write that let alone get onto 4chan

[Anonymous No.18537749]

>>18532970
bro wtf i knew a lot of that shit was fake
Got about the score I expected

[Anonymous No.18537916]

>>18537593
In my country, the only similar alternative its just a bigger version of /pol/ and is not even anonymoose

[Anonymous No.18537935]

>>18537916
What is it?

[Anonymous No.18537967]

>>18537935
facebook groups

[Anonymous No.18537982]

>>18532960
Based.

[Anonymous No.18538006]

>vocab test
>makes me click dozens of boxes for numerous easy words instead of just clicking the made up words that no one knows

no.

[Anonymous No.18538020]

>>18538006
It takes less than a minute, sperg
How much time have you spent doing captchas?

[Anonymous No.18538026]

Probably Dracula

[Anonymous No.18538069]

>>18538026
Although I might also pick Moby Dick. The one nonword I accepted was "buggrist" which I mixed up with "buggerer".

[Anonymous No.18538079]

>>18537684
Please say you're ESL

[Anonymous No.18538299]

>>18538079
Well, I thought it's obvious

[Anonymous No.18538423]

>>18538299
I just wanted to be sure. Honestly it could be worse. The fact that you're bilingual still means you're ahead of most of this board.

[Anonymous No.18538426]

>>18533155
based

[Anonymous No.18538431]

wtf are you all doing... English isn't even my first language...

[Anonymous No.18538450]

>>18538423
Thanks bro. I speak English fluently, the result is just because hard words that I never used or have seen for a few times so I didn't know definition for them. But still shocked me a little why is it so low, guess I need to read more

[Anonymous No.18538461]

>>18538450
There are like 5 grammatical problems in this post m8, your english is easily comprehensible but it is also clear you're not a native speaker

[Anonymous No.18538479]

>>18532754
About 15000+ words (not a native speaker) and my diary desu.

[Anonymous No.18538656]

>>18532754
>>18532970
There's either a huge discrepancy between these tests or everyone's lying about words they've heard but don't really know. For the record, I don't even consider myself highly literate but I know I have a way above average vocabulary just through interaction with the general populace.

[Anonymous No.18538996]

>>18536465
Oh, I didn't realize midriff was spelled that way. I always thought it was middrift, I do know that word.

[Anonymous No.18539015]

>>18538996
spastic

[Anonymous No.18539133]

ESL + 10 years of english classes on 4chan

[Anonymous No.18539379]

>>18538656
I got 81 as well, but 26k on the other one. interesting.

[Anonymous No.18539607]

21,300 words. 64% in the other test.

English is my first language, I read frequently compared to anyone I know but probably not as much as most on here (>20 books a year).

I have trouble with looking up the definition of a word then instantly forgetting it.

Favourite book is Under the Volcano by Lowry. Currently reading V by Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.18539614]

>>18539607
Also, to anyone with ESL who is getting really high scores: good job, it must be cool knowing two languages fluently. I'm starting to learn French but I'm an ultra beginner.

[Anonymous No.18539655]

>>18539607
>I have trouble with looking up the definition of a word then instantly forgetting it.
Look up usage and etymology as well, you will start remembering.

[Anonymous No.18539667]

>>18539655
Are there any good websites for that or does literally any dictionary do this? Would be handy to have this on the Kindle too.

[Anonymous No.18539742]

>>18532754
Not a very good test. The first time I did it I got 34,100. I did it again and got a different list of words and the result was 28,200. That's a percentile drop too huge for this test to be considered accurate.

Side note: one of the biggest midwits I know wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid. He has a ridiculously huge vocabulary and can regurgitate broad-themed information and esoteric factoids about politics...but he's a complete retard when it comes to critical thinking. Maybe he's just autistic or something.

[Anonymous No.18539781]

>>18539667
You need to go to one of the big dictionaries like the Oxford English Dictionary for this or use multiple sites/do your own research. The condensed version (tiny print, comes with magnifier) can be had for about $100 used, $50 if you are patient, or you can get a subscription to their website. There is no good free source to replace the OED yet and it is probably a very long time off before there is. It is worth the expense if your interest is in writing, perhaps not so much if you just want to read and converse, but maybe.

[Anonymous No.18539806]

>>18537334
I'm 20 years old. I had a phase where I loved learning new words, so I read books like Roget's Thesaurus and installed the Oxfor English Dictionary (there's a stardict file on thepiratebay) on my phone and constantly checked the definition of every word whose meaning I didn't have a firm grasp of.

[Anonymous No.18539833]

>>18539781
I'd like to write someday, I just never start. Maybe I'll never write.

For now I'll try just looking up the etymologies and sentence uses online and keep an eye out for cheap OEDs.

[Anonymous No.18539841]

>>18539781
There's both an OED CD program and a stardict fileset on tpb

[Anonymous No.18539850]

>English first language
>19,000 words

[Anonymous No.18539867]

>>18539841
Problem is I'm not usually on my computer when I'm reading.

[Anonymous No.18539890]

>>18539867
I don't know if stardict files can work with ereaders, but they definitely work with android devices. You can have a maximum of five dictionaries on the free version of the GoldenDict app. So, if you don't mind quickly checking your phone for an unfamiliar word, GoldenDict should do wonders

[Anonymous No.18539904]

>>18539841
Stardict is 1st edition and freely available, it is public domain, but dictionaries that are over 100 years old are not the greatest things unless you are researching the times.

Personally I find dictionaries to be one thing which do not transfer well to computer, flipping the pages looking for a word, going down the columns to your word, you encounter other words and you will read some of them, digitally you don't.

[Anonymous No.18539960]

I know for sure that all of you, especially the ESLs, are lying (mostly to yourselves). sad

[Anonymous No.18539963]

>>18539890
Interesting. So I can get a stardict android file on tpb? Or is there some other android dictionary app that would do the job? You mentioned Goldendict, does it have etymology and uses?

[Anonymous No.18540008]

>>18532970
i got 78% but i accidentally missed interpretively. only one wrong word i thought i knew.
keep in mind i've taken latin so my voacbulary is larger and often i can think some words are english which aren't due to sounding reasonable. ive many a time taken an english word with latin roots and made up new words with it without realizing it. pecunianist, a non word, would be an example of this tendency.
that being said i'm fairly confident i wasn't just picking words i thought were english. fairly confident i knew the words. maybe 1 or 2 i thought i knew due to roots.

[Anonymous No.18540012]

>>18539963
Actually I see now I install goldendict and then import a stardict dictionary.

[Anonymous No.18540048]

>>18540012
There are a great number of dictionaries in stardict format which can be opened by many dictionary apps.
http://download.huzheng.org
OED is under big dictionaries, they list it as 2nd edition, but I suspect it is actually the 1st since the files are the exact same size as my first edition OED stardict, But who knows, might be 2nd now, would be nice, will certainly check it out after errands if no one here confirms it one way or the other.

Even the first edition is fairly handy for etymology but its definitions and usage can be quite far off from modern usage.

[Anonymous No.18540053]

>>18539904
>flipping the pages looking for a word, going down the columns to your word, you encounter other words and you will read some of them, digitally you don't.
You do, actually, see pic related. But what I really like about the digital form is that you can easily search in both the heading and the definition fields.
>>18539963
GoldenDict is the actual app that opens files like stardict and dict.dz. You can get the GoldenDict apk on Google Play, but you'll have to torrent the OED files (there's 3 of them but they sum up to around 190 MB) here: https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=10093312
This is the 2nd edition of the OED that was published back in the 1980s, so you won't find words like 'podcast' in it.

[Anonymous No.18540061]

>>18540053
Perfect, I'll download this tomorrow and try it all out. Thank you for all your help!

[Anonymous No.18540070]

>>18540048
I have the 2nd edition (etymologies sometimes include examples from the 1970s and 1980s) and it's about 190 MB large

[Anonymous No.18540076]

>>18540061
Awesome, I hope you get to learn many new and fun words while using this app

[Anonymous No.18540102]

I’m an eastern european tho

[Anonymous No.18540116]

15,900 words

How do I learn more words guys? Am I fucked?

[Anonymous No.18540126]

>>18540116
Install the OED on your phone

[Anonymous No.18540178]

>What’s your gender?
>male
>female
It’s sad we live in a world where I would describe something so ordinary this way but absolutely based

[Anonymous No.18540189]

>>18540116
listen to Aesop Rock

[Anonymous No.18540238]

>>18540126
How many volumes of the OED fit on a phone? For some reason I immediately imagined that vocablet anon having multiple phones to contain the whole OED, arrayed in a neat little row with a pewter "a" on one side and a pewter "z" on the other as bookends; someone uses a word he doesn't understand that starts with the letter "p" and he runs to the shelf and browses for the phone containing entries for O-P-Q. You know, runs his finger along the phones' labeled spines until he finds the right one. I'll see myself out, thank you.

[Anonymous No.18540251]

>>18533297
non-native here 9,480 words

[Anonymous No.18540309]

>>18532754
I got 27,700. Disappointed to be honest but I haven't been reading enough old books until recently.
>>18532970
Got 87% in this one.

[Anonymous No.18540320]

>>18532754
27k english is my third language (well, second at this point).

[Anonymous No.18540335]

nonnative, but mostly consume english media 16
20300

[Anonymous No.18540350]

30,500 and my favourite book is Mysteries by Hamsun. Native English. But I remember taking this test years ago before I got into reading and I got a pretty shit score so there is hope for you wordlets.

[Anonymous No.18540412]

>>18540238
>How many volumes of the OED fit on a phone
Literally all of them lol, but I kek'd at your scenario

[Anonymous No.18540471]

>>18533333
Nice digits

[Anonymous No.18540875]

>>18532754
Litbros, how can I improve my English vocabulary?
t. 24-yo Hispanic

[Anonymous No.18540883]

>>18536387
Blue board = sfw
Red board = nsfw
Lurk more though, friend.

[Anonymous No.18540992]

>>18540875
Is this definition of a brainlet? I definitely need to hit the vocabulary gym.

[Anonymous No.18541007]

>>18540875
>>18540992
Browse good theaaurases like Roget's, use the OED, read books like Tristram Shandy, Shakespeare, Gene Wolfe, Joyce, etc

[Anonymous No.18541144]

:(

[Anonymous No.18541160]

>>18540875
Read Paradise Lost that's where all our words come from.

[Anonymous No.18541204]

>>18541007
>Roget's
Terrible. I find that The Synonym Finder is best for creative usage, it does not stick to just standard use, seems to be written more for literary use, Rogert's is more academic. Oxford is pretty solid. The Synonym Finder is probably the book which has increased my vocabulary more than any other book and also got me into the habit of researching usage since it has words listed for obscure and archaic usage.

[Anonymous No.18541214]

>>18541007
>>18541160
Thank you, anons. I'll also follow the anon's advice of looking usage and etymology as well.

[Anonymous No.18541263]

>>18541214
Did anyone mention morphemes? If you memorize those you'll be able to figure out what a lot of words mean even if you've never seen them before. (I had to do it for a linguistics course I took).

[Anonymous No.18541524]

>>18541204
Wut? I don't know which edition of Roget's you used, but the Project Gutenberg edition of it is very good. Its layout is unique in that it begins with the concept of being and moves on to more complex notions instead of just starting at the letter 'A' and proceeding alphabetically from there. Synonym Finder also looks very good from what I can tell.

[Anonymous No.18541553]

>>18541524
I agreed with you until I got a copy of The Synonym Finder from the little free library by my home, Rogert's is shit.

[Anonymous No.18541669]

>>18541553
Roget's thesaurus is perfectly fine in my case. I checked out the online version of The Synonym Finder and that also looks good. It probably incorporates the contents of Roget's.

[Anonymous No.18541774]

>>18541669
Yeah, that was exactly my view until I grabbed that free copy of The Synonym Finder, and it can certainly be just fine depending on your needs. It caused me to explore the various option, rather surprising how different they are, I expected them to all be roughly similar, like most common dictionaries. Thesaurus seem to be more targeted than standard dictionaries.

[Anonymous No.18541795]

>>18533012
T. Never read Milton

[Anonymous No.18541848]

>>18536387
lurk moar

[Anonymous No.18541960]

>21900
>66% on the other test

Croatian, also speak German. Thought I would do better, but it makes sense since I mostly read books in Croatian, and basically just read comics and stuff on the Internet in English.

[tourist No.18543694]

>>18533155
just so you know I woke up at 3am and came back straight to this thread to check this comment

[Anonymous No.18543741]

It's over bros. I didn't even read Nietzsche or Schopenhauer I was larping this whole time.

[Anonymous No.18543747]

>>18543741

[Anonymous No.18543959]

>>18532970
Got every word except gregarine, although I did get hit by one "fake" word - myllination, which I misread as myelination. That's far too close to a specific word and I imagine it trips many people up. The fake words shouldn't be traps for slight misremembering or misreading.

[Anonymous No.18544281]

>>18539960
cope. it's you who's lying to yourself, anon. you SHOULD feel bad that there are foreign speakers who have a far better grasp on your own language, but rather than putting your hands over your ears and going LALALA YOU'RE ALL LIARS, you should seek to remedy it and improve your vocabulary.
sure, there may be someone in this thread who's lying for whatever reason, but I'd wager most people are being entirely honest. myself included. please read more or something, instead of deluding yourself out of pure butthurt

[Anonymous No.18544296]

27600 here. Pitiful considering I am a native English speaker, but I am a zoomer and I only started reading seriously in the past 6 months. Out of curiosity, how often do you guys come across words that you don't know when reading? I feel like I find at least one word per two pages that I have to look up.

[Anonymous No.18544908]

http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=16543526
I feel that's a respectable number. My dad made me read the dictionary when I was little, and though I was annoyed with him at the time, it turned me from an aloof autist into someone who could actually articulate themselves..
>favourite book
Herodotus

>>18532960
glad to see someone else feels this way, because I feel like I do this shit all the time. I had to stop myself a few times during the test; It feels like I know more words by their correct context, rather than their specific meanings

[Anonymous No.18545651]

>>18544281
Why are you acting so defensive?

[Anonymous No.18545894]

Oh shieeet. I thought i could get at least 10k. Meh, anyway, what books would you recommand to improve my vocabulary at my level?

[Anonymous No.18545901]

>>18532754
These scores are fucking bullshit. I know like 1000 German words I learned in a few weeks on an app, you're telling me I only know 25x that in english when it's my native tongue?

[Anonymous No.18546179]

>>18545651
I think you're imagining things again, anon. why are you acting so suspicious?

[Anonymous No.18546258]

>>18533297
>>18540251
Except if you're French, it's an enormous advantage as sophisticated English words are your quotidian vocabulary

[Anonymous No.18546336]

>>18538656
I answered honestly and got 28,000 and 67%. Both sites are using a really small sample so I guess the discrepancy is to be expected.

[Anonymous No.18546370]

>>18539667
Google's definition widget usually has etymology. That definitely helps for memory, but spaced repetition is supposed to give great results as well. There are apps that schedule it for you, so you can create digital flashcards and it will test you with decreasing frequency as time goes on.

[Anonymous No.18546407]

>>18540008
I missed it because it was "interpretatively", not "interpretively". I thought they were trying to trip up ESLs and tards with the extra syllable.

[Anonymous No.18546426]

>>18545901
Power law