Wow, it's giving me stuff like 10000 and 16000 which is a lot more that I know, I'm sure.

I just focus on the grade level. It's impossible to get an exact estimate on someone's vocabulary.

@radical tyro

If you average those scores out you get around 8500 which might be closer to the real number. Strangely my highest score was on the first and my lowest on the last.

あなたの語彙数は14300語です．

uh.. no. Same as with similar tests in English, the estimate is way too high.

あなたの語彙数は27000語です。

中学生レベル： ２万～４万語。

Nice.

NightSky wrote:

That thing is completely broken. An easy example is if I only tick the last Kanji, it tells me I know 33,900.

However, if you say you only know the last Kanji and also the first word too, apparently I only know 800. Less is more it seems!

hmm good point. this is definitely odd behavior. *sigh*

Useless metric. Most lexicon estimators I've seen test you on way more words for better accuracy. Checking/unchecking one word changed my estimate by over 20,000 words.

There really is no accurate way to judge someone's vocabulary level; it's a big issue in linguistics (especially childhood language development).

They have a presentation page here: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/mtg/goitokusei/intro.html

They seem to have fate in their own test and describe it as highly accurate: 精度の高い推定テストです. From a quick glance, it looks like they built a custom database and sorted words by familiarity and used that as a basis to create the test. They say it's better than taking words at random from a dictionary, which is what other tests apparently do.

Edit: Found another test here: https://www.miraisoudan.com/goi_estimate/index.html
Looks like it's aimed at children­. Might be slightly more motivating. It's also created by NTT.

I urge all readers to please abide by this important recommendation before taking the test: かならず、先生（せんせい）やお父（とう）さん、お母（かあ）さんに相談（そうだん）してから始（はじ）めてね。

Last edited by Transparent_Aluminium (2009 November 23, 2:56 pm)

mentat_kgs wrote:

This second test doesn't work here.

Nope, it's not working for me either.

I got my hopes up for the first one. Even if it's higher than my actual vocab level, it's still disheartening to see such a low number.

Test 1: 10200 (Yay!)
Test 2: 3600 (I didn't think so)
Test 3: 3500 ()

Yeah...I really don't read enough heh. On the upside, hey, I know 3,500 Japanese words. That's 3,500 more than I used to know.

Last edited by atylmo (2009 November 23, 4:04 pm)

Transparent_Aluminium wrote:

I urge all readers to please abide by this important recommendation before taking the test: かならず、先生（せんせい）やお父（とう）さん、お母（かあ）さんに相談（そうだん）してから始（はじ）めてね。

perfect timing - I just happen to be visiting my folks.
btw thanks for locating these

It also works in Opera.

Transparent_Aluminium wrote:

かならず、先生（せんせい）やお父（とう）さん、お母（かあ）さんに相談（そうだん）してから始（はじ）めてね。

Damn, they just won't let me do that test!

First one about 9000... second one about 10000 (accurate so far)... third one.. 25400... last one 41900. I ******* wish.

Also, thank you Keroro Gunsou for making me look up ポコペン

Last edited by Evil_Dragon (2009 November 24, 5:14 am)