Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time
by yread on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:53AM
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And even after you've mastered 10s of thousands of words (you can estimate it for english here
http://testyourvocab.com/
) you're still going to be struggling with cultural references to children's shows which were popular 30 years ago or politics from 5 years ago.
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Re:Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time
by tommo123 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:29AM
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That's a pretty interesting test, thanks for sharing it. The funny thing is I had to pass over a bunch of words I know from french/latin/italian that I haven't seen used in English so I don't know whether the meaning has shifted or not in the transfer. Stupid English.