How many words do you know in Japanese? Take the 語彙数推定テスト (Vocabulary Assessment Test) and find out. You will be presented with a list of 50 words - just tick the boxes next to the ones you know (be honest!) and based on how many of these representative words you know the page will spit out an assessment of your vocabulary. Compare your score with the vocabulary of an average Japanese student:
小学生レベル： ５千〜２万語
中学生レベル： ２万〜４万語
高校生レベル： ４万〜４万５千語
大学生レベル： ４万５千〜５万語
Warning: it can be very humbling......:-)
Heh, here were my results:
Test 1 — 4000 words
Test 2 — 800 words
Test 3 — 1500 words
If you take the average, that's probably a good estimation of the breadth of my vocabulary.
Posted by: Paul D | February 19, 2006 at 10:43 PM
Is there a similar test for english?
Posted by: JP | May 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM
I got 4400, 4400, 29,000. Not sure how i did so well on that last one? I have 5 years of Japanese language practice.
Posted by: Kevin | May 14, 2012 at 02:45 PM
16100,13800,22700, i've been studying japanese by myself for just over 2 years now. Hoping i can increase my score to at least highschool student level (according to the test) by next year
Posted by: Patrick | December 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM