CFC English Vocabulary Challenge

About 25,500 if the test is to be trusted. OK for a non-native speaker who didn't take an English class since 2002.
 
You're Western European. That doesn't count. :p
 
Limn, to describe or depict or sometimes to highlight, is a good word to use if you want your graduate school professors to inaccurately mark you down for a typo.
 
I got around ~20000-25000 if I remember correctly. I also put myself as non-native speaker but it's kind of complicated - I was born in the US but my parents spoke only Vietnamese to me at home until I was in elementary school, so English wasn't my first language per se, even though nowadays my English is better than my Vietnamese.
 
cybrxkhan said:
I got around ~20000-25000 if I remember correctly. I also put myself as non-native speaker but it's kind of complicated - I was born in the US but my parents spoke only Vietnamese to me at home until I was in elementary school, so English wasn't my first language per se, even though nowadays my English is better than my Vietnamese.
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same-ish boat kinda. i grew up in a russian speaking household but i was apparently mute until i was in kindergarten.
 
madviking said:
same-ish boat kinda. i grew up in a russian speaking household but i was apparently mute until i was in kindergarten.
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Whoa you're Russian. Learn something new every day. D:

Russian Jew or just Russian? There were quite a number of both at my high school. Apparently enough in MoCo that they even had a Russian language school on the weekends or something.

Actually last night I was at a get-together of sorts and I met this couple who adopted this Russian girl (from Kyrgyzstan) who was about five; even though her parents both spoke Russian and English to her (even though they're both not Russian... the mother was white (Itailan?) and the father was Filipino) she was also pretty much mute unlike her brother (who is Uzbek). But anyways she was such an adorable little girl.
 
Here's another tear that tries to correct for false positives and contains significantly more scientific terms (and fewer art ones, it seemed to me).
http://vocabulary.ugent.be
 
I scored 86% on that test.

Not bad. Some of the nonwords are kinda tricky.
 
BvBPL said:
Here's another tear that tries to correct for false positives and contains significantly more scientific terms (and fewer art ones, it seemed to me).
http://vocabulary.ugent.be
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I got 63%, (previous test was 10000)
Made only one false positive mistake, when I misread "testacular" as "testicular" and marked the word as existing :)

madviking said:
other, actually!
german russian.
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You can check Russian vocabulary here:
http://www.myvocab.info/
It cannot be directly compared to English results, because it apparently uses different methodology and gives much higher results. But from statistics page, you can translate it to English equivalent score. My was around 35-36k (test result was 91000)
 
red_elk said:
I got 63%, (previous test was 10000)
Made only one false positive mistake, when I misread "testacular" as "testicular" and marked the word as existing :)
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Same. I also misread "fliled" as "filled" so two false positives for me. Ended up with a 66%.
 
18500 on the first test.
60% on the second test.
 
Strange, it seems the second test places me almost on par with native speakers, while the first one gives 2-2.5 times lower score.
 
I got a 71% on the second test which it said was a high level for a native speaker.
 
I think the second test, relative to the first, might be skewed towards people with a science background and biology in particular. Almost none of the words in the first test are scientific or jargon, whereas the second one seems to have many more science words.

Whether it is more important to know what a leitmotif is or a mitochondria is left up to the reader.
 
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