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What are you doing right now?

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

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Permalink Reply by Fake on May 24, 2011 at 2:00am

Also, just posted a rather beautiful response to all the homophobia on nerdfighters.

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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on May 24, 2011 at 3:07am

I love RPs. xD Every time I join one, I find someone who loves GO. It's wonderful.

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Permalink Reply by Xuut on May 24, 2011 at 3:34am

So while doing some research, I stumbled onto this site which is what weirdo Japanese kids go through:

http://www.stepeiken.org/downloads

If anyone has taken a DELF (or British GSCE or any sort of language test that tells you of your ability that originated in Europe), it works a bit like that. First grade being the best English ability. Generally speaking Pre- First Grade is the skill level that I'm at. The test is ridiculously long and all multiple choice (tbh sounds like AP French exams... only in English). Someone do the test. XD I did the first 10 questions and got 2 wrong. I laughed because it's all practically vocabulary (and I didn't even know what some of those words were).

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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on May 24, 2011 at 4:15am

It's all vocabulary. I went to 25 (for the grade-1 booklet since it was first) and got all of them right.

It's basically identical to the vocabulary portions of the tests I took in AP English.

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Permalink Reply by Xuut on May 24, 2011 at 6:33am

Nice to know that's how they teach English... >.>

I don't get why everyone says that American schooling is so crappy, because that's what they use in Asian countries and I don't feel as if that's an effective way to teach a language.

(I just thought it was amusing that I didn't even know some of those words. XD)

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Permalink Reply by o0_flying high_0o on May 24, 2011 at 1:11pm

When learning a second language, vocab is kind of important. And these tests do rely heavily on reading comprehension, plus there's also a listening component on the site. So, I don't think they're really that bad

Same as Nathan with the tests though :D (Okay, didn't really know #12, but I guessed it correctly...)

It seems rather ridiculous, though, that AP English for a class of students speaking English as their first language would have to learn vocab...