Test Your Vocab is a research project to measure vocabulary sizes according to age and education, and particularly to compare native learning rates with foreign language classroom learning rates. It functions by means of a test: the first part with a handful of words to determine the general vocabulary level, and a second part with a larger but narrower selection of words to determine the vocabulary level with greater precision.
My total vocabulary size is estimated to be 17,800 words. That's not bad since English is not my native language. Most adults fall in the range 20,000 - 35,000, with the exact median score being 27,123 words.
Test Your Vocab.
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9 comment(s):
My vocabulary was estimated at 32,000.
I couldn't get the damn thing to "continue", perhaps I'm illiterate?
29,600. It was difficult to resist clicking words that I had heard of and had some vague notion of the meaning. I had to decide if I actually knew the definition or had just a feeling about it.
39,500
I speak a few other languages (including Algemeen "Beschadigd" Nederlands) which seemed to help with the more exotic words
22,700 for me but knowing a definition doesn't mean I use many of them in my regular vocabulary.
26,300...
Cool post, Gerard!
I think I read too much...hah!
34,400.
24.800.. not bad for a non native speaker i think :)
My result is 13500. And the average result of this this is 4500. Not bad, I think :) I can recommend you to use a great website which can help you to improve vocabulary: http://wordsteps.com
In a few months you can apss the vocabulary test again :)
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