Test Your Vocab
30th September 2012
Test Your Vocab is a research project to measure vocabulary sizes according to age and education, and particularly to compare native learning rates with foreign language classroom learning rates. It functions by means of a test: the first part with a handful of words to determine the general vocabulary level, and a second part with a larger but narrower selection of words to determine the vocabulary level with greater precision.
Remembering always that this is just an estimate. My score was 39,900; don’t know whether that’s good or bad. Robin can probably beat me, since he’s more of a polymath than I am.