How's Your Vocabulary

[Lynne]

Your Vocabulary Score: A



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

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[moremojo]

I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!

This is what I have heard. I understand that Frisian, a language (or dialect) spoken, I believe, on the northwestern coast of the Netherlands is the non-English language that most closely resembles English. I'd love to see your Dutch vocabulary test, Melissa.

[Penthesilea]

I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!

I always found Dutch is like a mixture of English and German. When it's spoken, I understand only little; depends on how clearly it is spoken. For a while I had a Dutch channel on TV and found I'm able to at least comprehend the essence of what was talked about.
But when reading, I can understand very much or even most of it, because it's a lot like English and German.

But when talking to a regular Dutch guy in the Netherlands who doesn't give a flying f*ck about speaking the least bit articulately...then I'm totally lost  .
I found it astonishing, that almost all Dutch can understand German (seemingly) without problems and speak it at least a little bit. I would never be able to speak one single sentence Dutch.

[Ellemeno]

I always found Dutch is like a mixture of English and German. When it's spoken, I understand only little; depends on how clearly it is spoken. For a while I had a Dutch channel on TV and found I'm able to at least comprehend the essence of what was talked about.
But when reading, I can understand very much or even most of it, because it's a lot like English and German.

But when talking to a regular Dutch guy in the Netherlands who doesn't give a flying f*ck about speaking the least bit articulately...then I'm totally lost  .
I found it astonishing, that almost all Dutch can understand German (seemingly) without problems and speak it at least a little bit. I would never be able to speak one single sentence Dutch.

Me too, written is much easier to understand than spoken.  I wonder if there are two reasons that Dutch have an easier time understanding German than vice versa - one) German doesn't have so much of an overlay of the guttural sounds, so it's maybe easier to pick out the syllables, and two) I bet Dutch hear much more German than German hear Dutch.  Both just guesses.

But what always blows me away and knocks my socks off is how well so many Germans and Dutch and Scandinavians speak English.  You all here amaze me.

[isabelle]

This English major would have been devastated by anything less! :

Your Vocabulary Score: A 
 
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person. 

Quite, Scott! Exactly what I thought, and exactly what I got (I am so HAPPY!!!, yippee!). God I love that site!

[Toast]

Your Vocabulary Score: A-



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! (nefarious)
You must be quite an erudite person.

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[David In Indy]

Hee hee hee hee....

I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!

Please don't test me in Dutch, Melissa.

Remember "van top tot teen"?   

I thought she was talking about a mountain ya'll. <blush> The proper translation is "From head to toe".

(God. I bet my Dutch grandfather was turning in his grave so fast he was throwing sparks. He might even come back and haunt me.) 
 
I have forgotten so much of my Dutch. It is just shameful.   

[David In Indy]

This is what I have heard. I understand that Frisian, a language (or dialect) spoken, I believe, on the northwestern coast of the Netherlands is the non-English language that most closely resembles English. I'd love to see your Dutch vocabulary test, Melissa.

Scott. My grandfather told me Dutch was the closest language to English. But English is NOT the closest language to Dutch; German is.

Confusing, isn't it?   

I also remember my Grandfather telling me people in the north of the Netherlands speak a dialect of Dutch so close to English a person speaking Frisian conversing with another person speaking English can actually understand each other, even though they were speaking two different languages. We never did make it up as far north as Friesland and to the cities of Leeuwarden, Sneek and Bolsward, but I would love to go up there someday. 

[Arad-3]

Your Vocabulary Score: C+



Your vocabulary is average.
You're not exactly a literature major, but no one's going to accuse you of being illiterate!

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[Kerry]

Your Vocabulary Score: A+



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

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