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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'



 
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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers' #1 (permalink) Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:50 am   Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'
 

Hello,

There was a site that gives you English words to figure our their meaning in order to statistically assess your vocabulary level compared to native speakers'. The site is not built for ESL speakers. I remember my vocabulary was about 40,000 words according to that service, and my level was probably vis-a-vis to average native speaker's vocabulary or a bit less.

The problem is that I lost that site for it is buried under thousands of my gmail messages and a lot of time spent in search for it yields nothing.

Do you know of any such service?

Thanks,

Kilani
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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers' #2 (permalink) Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:58 am   Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'
 

Here is a site:
http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/individuals/individuals.xml
It is not free, though.
This one is free:
http://www.greguide.com/gre-practice-tests.html
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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers' #3 (permalink) Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:13 am   Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'
 

Thanks Milanya for the site and the instant reply,
A site good to know about. It has quite few free tests but none of them, the free ones, about vocabulary.

Let's see what others have

-Kilani
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Okay, I did some GRE practice tests four years ago, but the GRE test population does not represent the native population I believe.
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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers' #4 (permalink) Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:15 am   Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'
 

Check this site out too:
http://www.lextutor.ca/
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Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers' #5 (permalink) Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:36 am   Comparing your vocabulary to native speakers'
 

Great, the last one looks good even though it is not that user friendly. I like it anyway.
Thanks Milanya for the help
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