How much German do you know?
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I got two correct out of about 5 or 6 questions and the results were “You know approximately 500 words.” I don’t know how they got 500 words out of 2 correct, but ok.
I got Beginner level 2. It says I know 1500 words. (Must be because I’m short and ambidextrous.)
6000
Intermediate 1
I did it twice, twice I got the same number (and a few same words).
What was a bit ‘stupid’ was that I made one mistake twice….
“Wachsen” I thought was “Change”.
I might have mixed my wechslen and tauschen?
I got 5/6 in Level 1 and 2? /4? in Level 2. 1500 words.
I took 4 semesters of German in college a loooong time ago.
@rebbel
Well, depending on context, “wachsen” can mean both to “grow” and to “wax”.
It should be 1501. I know “gemutlichkeit” and pronounce it with the umlaut – even though my keyboard doesn’t have it.
If your keyboard does not have ü, ä and ö, you use ue, ae, and oe instead. You never just omit the dots.
Beginner 1, “You know approximately 500 words”. That is an overly generous assessment.
whem Itravelled though Germany as a young man, the one phrase I needed to learn was, “Wo ist der hauptbanhof?”
That is something I never understood, in any language.
Why memorise certain phrases, when you are not going to understand the answer?
^^^^ But if one walks up to a local with a street map in hand and ask the question, one gets an answer.
Yup – and “Ou est les toilettes?” usually gets a point in the right direction.
I received intermediate 1 knowing 6000 words. I studied German for 2 years in university.
Level 2. 1500 words. A few semesters of German back in college…a long time ago.
Thanks for posting this. Was actually just thinking how impressed I was with our international jellies. And how the reverse test would totally kick my ass. :P
Beginner. Funny enough once you kbow the Latin roots, most languages are easy to decipher. Not speak but read.
Just a handful of words. I have no interest in it. Those ridiculously long compound words give my dyslexic brain nightmares.
I got up to Intermediate 1 – You know approximately 6000 words on the second try, but I was inferring a bit and got luckier about what they asked me than I did the first time.
Enough to get around in Hamburg, Munich, and Koln without making an ass of myself.
Enough to order in a restuarant.
Not enough to hold a conversation of any depth.
Only what I learned from Kurt Wagner in the X-Men comics.
I actually learned quite a bit of vocabulary from reading comic books. :P
Says I know 500 words.
It’s easier if I can hear the word in a sentence so I can put it in context.
6000. I missed only the two words in the sentence fill-ins. I had four years of German starting when JFK was president. My knowledge of grammar is still pretty sound, but vocabulary is spotty. I’ve had very little practice during these years.
I love those long compound words that @gorillapaws deplores, and those verbs with the separable prefix, which when inverted can make you wait until the end of a paragraph-long or page-long sentence to find out what the main verb is. Way to hold a reader’s attention. Is casual speech a little looser with that rule? I’m guessing not.
I got one right – and it was a guess.
@Jeruba I just don’t understand what Germans have against whitespace. Designing user interfaces that will be localized in German is a nightmare…
I was playing with the test site. I’m also intermediate level 1 in French.
“You know approximately 500 words”
They are being generous. I wish it were more. My American dad spoke German and 4 of my 8 great-grandparents were off-the-boat Germans.
I know 1500 words apparently which is incorrect as I hardly know any. Most of my choices were guesses and I made four attempts.
@gorillapaws, my guess would be a higher value set on density than on vacancy. Why protect space when you can pack words in it? Just a guess, though.
At least you don’t have to design for Frakturschrift.
By the third year, my class had to read in Frakturschrift. Predictably, I loved it.
@ragingloli, are there any websites in deutsche Schrift? I don’t mean sites on how to read it. I mean sites where the German text simply appears in Fraktur.
@raum: Me too. Those bronze era writers were not writing to little kids.
I took a lot of guesses based on my knowledge of other languages too. i don’t know German but I know a little Yiddish.
@janbb I took one after school class in elementary school for Portuguese. (Which kind of amounts to nothing.) But got by with Spanish.
“Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale”.
My score is Riesiger Scheißredner.
That means stable genius, in case you’re wondering.
None. Never could get a grasp on any foreign languages. I do well to speak and write in grammatically correct English.
Knowing foreign languages and speaking/writing grammatically correct English aren’t mutually exclusive. ;)
For me they are. But I admit I’m not the sharpest nail in the board.
I took two years of German ij college and probably forgot more than I know. I got 1500.
Level 2 – 1500 words
I have never taken any German language learning aside from my Kindergarten teacher being German. She taught us a few Kindergarten level swear words.
A recent Ancestry Ethnicity Inheritance Report also show I have 0% Germanic Europe ties.
Sadly I only know the basic words since I was never able to finish my german course in duolingo, I only know about 1500 words.
‘vee have vays to make talk’ That’s all for me.
I got 6000. Some I knew, some I correctly guessed. The easiest ones, of course, are the English cognates.
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