Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Language Test

Here's a way to find yourself wasting time:

Goethe Tests

It's a series of vocabulary tests in a large number of languages, but the vocabulary words needed for the test are written on the page, so it's sort of a big game of mix-and-match.

I started doing the "easy" Estonian tests and found myself complete disheartened by how few I was getting right the first time, so I switched over to French. It's amazing how studying English can give you an advantage with guessing French.

I'm going to have to learn French one of these days. And German. And Spanish. And maybe Italian. After, of course, I've got a decent enough handle on Estonian and Russian...

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