Re:Estimate your English vocabulary size
by Sparq on Sunday July 17, 2011 @09:09AM
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I got 30800, and I am a native Dutch speaker. Though I have to say that I consider English my co-native language. Most of the media I consume is in English, and in my work environment (IT) English is the default language.
But most of the words in this test I knew from reading books, as it is one of the few places where using a very wide vocabulary is not frowned upon.
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Same here. Also a native Dutch speaker, but by far the most of my daily communication happens in English. I scored 25600 on the test.
My use of English is limited to daily-use for the most part. Apart from IT terminology, I rarely encounter field-specific words. Nor do I read literature.