I am a native English speaker who had straight A’s. I have no idea why I’m watching this video, but it is currently night and I’m procrastinating sleeping.
As a French native speaker I felt really helped 😅because all of the same words we have in commun with English : various = varié typical = typique consequence = conséquence authentic = authentique ambiguous = ambigu facilitate = faciliter succinct = succinct. Thanks Brian for this little test ! 😊
I was about to tell the same thing. I'm French and did all good in this test, like I knew all the words but a lot had indeed the same root so easy peasy 😅 I do have good English vocabulary since I almost always read my novel, manga or watch my movies in English since childhood 😊
12/15 here. i’ve never seen or heard eschew or blithe be used in anything i’ve read before, you learn something new everyday. succinct was the most frustrating because i knew the word but forgot the meaning.
I pride myself on having quite a distinct vocabulary but I've never seen or heard anyone use "blithe" or "eschew" before so thank you for extending my vocabulary even further.
I am from Iran and I've been self studying English for 6 years. I got 4 wrong, but I'm still glad I came so far. English is the language that connects all of us.❤
76 year old Gramma. I got 15/15. Because reading has been an important part of my life since the age of 6. It was an important subject in Elementary school. And I read the classics in school which increased my vocabulary, which is why I understand words like blithe and eschew. And because English is my first language. Thank you for the test! I guess I dont have dementia yet! 😂
Same here, 15/15 (only I'm 77 yrs in old). I could read at 2nd grade level by the time I started kindergarten. That was all thanks to my wonderful mother. She had wanted to be an English teacher, but couldn't pursue her dream due to the Great Depression. She always made learning fun - never a chore. As a result, to this day, I still prefer reading to any other pastime. Thank you, Mom!
Started learning english 8 years ago and went to a british school. This is my first time seeing words like blithe and eschew, so I am proud of my 13/15 and expanded vocabulary
That's pretty good, especially for a non-native speaker. I might have got 15/15, but I understand that's not very common, I just hyperfixate on certain subjects and learn far more about them than I should lol
I'm not native and I know many more "difficult" words. The problem is I don't speak English much only read and watch TV/movies in that language. Need more practice talking.
I'm African but I guess a native English speaker due to our colonial past and decent educational system. These words weren't difficult at all. I expected some positively sesquipedalian or diabolical words. Nothing of the sort popped up, just typical words.
You will always get the smart alecs who sailed through the test. Congratulations to all of you who got good scores even though English is not your first language 👏👏🌟 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Speaking as a Welshman, English came from England and was exported to other countries, including the USA (which almost chose German). American English has developed (and sometimes remained faithful to an earlier spelling) and is now, via the Internet, changing English english. For example, we say "sukcinct", not "succinct", as in the video. Sadly, "train station" is rapidly replacing "railway station". "Change" is now that clumsy verb "transitioning". (American english turns nouns into verbs.) I prefer "biscuit" while children increasingly refer to "cookies".
@@felixwaterman4448 Yes. But also don't forget that American English is more accurate to the accent of your European English than modern Europeans countries are because ya'll became "posh" and America did not.
64 yr old Aussie mum here, 15/15. Thanks to the excellent education I received here plus the fact that I have never stopped reading books, thousands of them over my lifetime. And reading was always encouraged in my family and extended family, which has also been how my son has been raised.
Same here! English is not my native language (Mine are Haitian Creole and French). Reading books to increase knowledge was always part of my family values (both my parents were teachers). Thanks to that, I learned English and Spanish
@@francelauresampin2588 It's all good, the USA doesn't even have it's own native language, only native languages throughout the land. Don't worry about it.
@@francelauresampin2588 It's all good, just like AUSTRALIA, the USA doesn't even have it's own native language, only native languages that still remain throughout the land. Don't even worry about it.
Fun video! Got 14 correct.....started laughing because I used to say she is spending money Blindly! So when Blithe came up, I thought OMG for years saying it wrong 😂😂😂
I’m a self taught English middle schooler and I got 13/15! I’m really proud of myself because I have been learning for a long time now and since English is way different than French (which is my first language) I was kind of struggling. Glad to see I improved even if some words were picked randomly!
Most words were from Latin origin, so you speaking French should know them. I speak Spanish and except for Strain, Blithe, Blunt and Eschew the rest are easily recognizable
Well I got 12 correct. Guess what was the first language I learnt not for speaking but formally at school? It was english. Well you can technically also call me a polyglot as my country is filled with diversity and various languages. Btw I speak 3 languages.
@@TommyZeus-i8nhah! I know that one because Guinness made an issue of it some decades ago. If you read a lot, you'll know most all the words someone other than a lexicographer could throw at you.
15/15. I have read 10s of 1000s of books in my 38 years of reading (age 41 now) So many words, many that I've looked up purely on interest once discovered on a particular page of a book I'm reading. I learn a new word every few weeks, I never stop learning.
I got 9/15, as a middle schooler and English not being my first language, I’m kind of proud edit: Thankss!! (I might not be able to reply to everyone but thank you so much!)
18 year old here,i'm from Balkans and i have never learned English from a school or a book,i ussually learned from songs,movies and video games i got 14/15 last one got me,my accent is better from when i started to speak or write on English but i'm proud of myself 😋
Good on you pal, but two more tips here. After commas you should put a space, it makes it easier to read, but I'm pretty sure both ways *are* grammatically correct. Also, I have no idea if you did this because of typing fast, but i's are capitalized when you are talking about yourself. Great job learning English from just looking at and listening to it though, very impressive.
Delighted to correct 12/15 ,but aiming for 15/15 . Thanks for teaching me three new words. 1. Blithe (Adj)= carefree and cheerful 2. Succinct( Adj.)= Brief and clear 3. Eschew(V)= Intentionally avoid something or somebody. I'm from India and have been learning english since 2023 ,but only recently have I become serious about improving my skills. Again Thanks a lot 💖
15/15, Russian, been studying English for 9 years now. Had to guess the meaning based on the words' appearance towards the end, but I think being able to accomplish that is something to be proud of in itself.
I teach English to foreign students and being an Italian native speaker with a good knowledge of Italian lexis helps widely in interpreting some unknown words, even at C1-C2 level. The students who find it harder to guess the meaning are those who don't know any European language.
73 year old Grandma here. Got 15/15. Thanks in part to Mrs. McKinney and other teachers like her who emphasized weekly vocabulary words and reading! 📖🙌👌
That's awesome, well done! I'm from Latvia. My English was extremely bad back in school. I also haven't read a single book written in English in my life, yet I've got 12/15, somehow. Movies, video games and UA-cam videos must've done their thing. Eschew was my favorite word in this test. I haven't heard of it, nor seen it before, yet I figured its meaning remembering what sound English speaking people are making when they are trying to scare pigeons away lmao😂
@@tamsinmccormickAmerican is no language. It is called American English. Because it is an accent of English same like Scottish English and Canadian English.
Glad I wasn't the only one, I don't ever recall hearing anyone use blithe in a sentence or read it in a book. It was the only definition I didn't know.
I've worked with some Indian people with impeccable English. Sometimes their accents are difficult to understand at first, but their grammar and word choice is excellent. If you want to be a citizen of the world, learn English, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, and German. You will be able to travel the world and converse with nearly everyone you meet.
Value - Worth Sustain - Support Various - Different Emphasize - Highlight Typical - Ordinary Blunt - Straightforward Consequence - Result Strain - Make a great effort Authentic - Genuine Evolve - Change Gradually Blithe - Carefree and Cheerful Ambiguous - Open to more then one interpretation Facilitate - Make easier Succint - Brief Eschew - Avoid I got 12/15 Got me (eschew, succint, blithe)
My vocabulary is rich. I’ve been a straight A student who perfected her own reading through extensive reading. I loved reading since childhood. It helped me a lot ❤
We learnt a lot in school were I come from. That you decided to learn in your twenties and scored nearly perfect really deserves some respect and you have every right to feel proud 👍👍👍
@@maliniatb I truly appreciate that. Thank you so much. I learned English when I moved to the US in my 20’s. I wanted to learn it as close to fluent as possible so people would stop making fun of my accent, immersion is the best way to learn it. Also reading books helped a lot. Again, thank you for the compliment.
14 year old from Malaysia here, I started learning English around the same age as you too, but I got 10/15. (Malay has English derived words too lol) Just wanted to say congrats and well done! Keep it up :D
Native English language speaker. 15/15. I actually use all of these words in my work as an executive. Good set of words. I think that for people who are not native English language speakers or for people who do not read a lot, some of the last five - especially blithe and eschew - would have been tough although both words have their appropriate uses. The good thing is that when you have a word for something, it makes that quality easier to recognize. It is much the same for colors - people who have detailed vocabularies for shades of color can actually see differences that people with more limited color vocabularies cannot.
Im typical local Chinese from Malaysia, and since a kid Tolkien's works inspired me to study English so that I can comprehend his books... and got me 15/15. Thank you Tolkien.
I got 14/15. I've been living in the US for 15 years but i don't necessarily speak English daily. I'm glad I came across your channel though so I can brush up my English.
I’m 23 years old from Kazakhstan and I’ve been learning English since I was 6 years old. I got 13 out of 15. Never got a chance to learn about blithe and eschew before. Thanks for a great video!
@@flyce3616 the problem is “he’s American” his pronunciation of eschew is incorrect. And has many different uses like “off centre or not straight” and “not accurate”. I’m Australian, 1st language English and most Australians under 40 would get 6/15 at best. You have done incredibly well 🙏
78 years old recently and I got them all right: found it surprisingly easy. I've had very little formal education but have always been a voracious reader.
That's funny. The word is rather pedantic. One would only hear it from a teacher (if at all). I know the word well but it simply isn't spoken. It is seen in print though.
14/15. I am from Belgium and not an english native speaker. This was surprisingly an easy test. If your primary language is English, you should reallly have 15/15. Learned about the word eschew ! Thank you
I am a 287 year old Narnian Latin Professor and English is my first language but I got a score 205784/15 so I am glad I am still able to comprehend such and immense language to a penultimate degree.
These would’ve been known well by middle school for many who were actually learning reading, writing and arithmetic. Now, it’s amazing when you find cursive. I believe it should still be taught. How will they read a letter that comes in cursive or learn to actually sign their name. Of course, people can get by without it but to me cursive is also an art. There’s expression in it unlike printing. I would like our schools to teach subjects that are fundamental. Even home economics was helpful. All my cooking classes and sewing classes taught you math. Leave much of the things that fall outside this for electives or even for college. I didn’t send my children to s*x ed either. I’m a medical provider and I believe I can cover all topics well. Plus, my kids were not afraid to ask questions about anything. Sometimes I wish they had been 😂. Maybe we should be voting in this nation what’s important for children to learn. Some ideas might be surprising and helpful.
62 and also went to school when the teachers actually taught you. As opposed to now where they fill your head with trash and make you question if you're something that you're not.
I got 14/15 because the majority of these words comes from French and therefore Latin. As I am French I would like to thank William the Conqueror, a French Normand Duke who became King of England in 1066 after the battle of Hasting. He brought so many French words in England that nowadays 41% of the English words come directly from French. It helped me a lot in learning this second language :)
English is my second language, that said I got 15/15. I took my ESL classes at college before taking my Nursing classes here in the US plus I read a lot, mostly Medical and Science books, that sure helps.
I'm 74 and got them all as well. You are in the same generation as I am and we did learn vocabulary back then but more importantly, we read books and not computer screens. Have a great day.
@@WilliamStyers Based on your name I’m also gonna guess your a native English speaker, while this seems to be a course aimed at foreign speakers, hence the 97% of the WORLD. Congrats, your English vocab is better than that of a Chinese/ French/ Spanish / xyz person. Smh
@@hamster4618 I agree with you. And I am indeed a native English speaker. Having said that for those who did so well that were not, congratulations. English is such an irrational language that it is hard for anyone who didn't have it as their "milk" language to learn and be fluent in.
15 out of 15 here, age 76. Agreed, intelligent thinking in general, built on a foundation of solid vocabulary, and differentiating and expressing subtle meanings in particular, was to be expected when we were growing up.
I'm 68 years old and I had to quit school in the seventh grade for personal reasons but I went to an excellent elementary school and my family members read books about different subjects all the time. We had books stacked against our walls in our house, hundreds of books. The first books I read were the Wizard of Oz series by a guy named L Frank Baum. I used to walk to the Carnegie library in my little home town by myself and spent many hours there reading to escape my turbulent household. I managed to get every one right 15/15.
👏🏽 Bravo. I’m 74 and a high school grad 1968. My Mother read to us from an early age and my Dad bought us a set of encyclopedias. , so I’ve always loved reading and all 15 words on that list were familiar to me.
@balloonfarm5903 Me too! Same age and similar background. I was lucky enough to go to college because my parents started saving for it when I was born. Reading is a great way to expand your vocabulary! Did you ever just sit down and open a book from your encyclopedia and open it to a random page, and just start reading? I loved that.
LOL. You are a fool for not having understood the real goal of this video which is to have you watch it to the end. It does not matter how many words you got right if you watched it to the end you are an easily manipulated fool like me. I watched to the end and immediately felt ashamed and upset with myself that I fell for the oldest trick in the book. Yes, you got 15 out of 15 and you failed because you did not understand the main goal of the video which was to use your own vanity to keep you watching until the end. Congratulations... FOOL.
14/15, almost got it all :) and English is my third language. Thanks to my English teacher for having us to study the merriem webster’s word of the day every week.
12/15 , Native polish speaker with English B2 level and ambitions for C1 , but to be honest this was kinda easy but "Eschew" "facilitate" and other word that I don't remember now really stunned me
@soniaetter1850 I never loved words, just ideas. But I realized that to get ideas across effectively, I needed a decent vocabulary and decent grammar, too.
So have I. There's a word for that, if you didn't know...SESQUIPEDALIAN. 😃 (You're welcome.) By the way, if you've never played Wordle, you should. It's the perfect word game to keep you sharp but not drive you insane. Free on the NY Times, and you need not create an account or provide personal info. Best of all, it's one and done--you cannot play it more than once a day. So there's no risk of going down the rabbit hole. I also play Connections on there; it's fun too. And I typically hate video or online games. But these are different.
I didn't realize this was for non-native speakers. Got them all, but I'm an American and love words and write for a living. Good work for all those who got them!!!!
I am non-native speaker but might as well be one now, since I came to the US at 16 and I am now 60. I still missed one, but I had come across the one I missed before, just forgot the meaning. I guessed correctly but if I had to guess, I would not count it.
I read the Encyclopedia Britannica at a young age. I grew up on a farm and there wasn't much to read. My Mom considered the Encyclopedia to be decorative, but I read it cos it was there.
Facilitate is originally a French word ( facile = easy ) , if one would look at the word facilitate they would think it's more likely a derivative from facility. But since English is a living language ( expanding ) we can expect it to grow more with time. And sometimes using words from other languages.
As a native speaker of English and as someone who is trying to learn another language, I have the deepest respect for the non-native speakers who took this test. Congratulations for even attempting it; double congratulations for those who did well! I got 15 out of 15, but, as I said, I am a native speaker. I also love words. Good luck to everyone attempting to learn and/or improve their English skills; native and non-native speakers alike! ❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻
Thank you so much, bro. I'm not English native and English is not my mother tongue (I just a student who studies at Foreign languages department) but I did it on 12/15. Blunt and some C2 vocab got me.
Native English speaker here. Got all right. I study French & Spanish & it’s eye opening how these languages actually increase my understanding of English.
Correct me if I'm wrong (not a native English speaker). At 2:37 blunt could almost mean something with almost to no edge, So it mostly depends how we use it, correct?
@Vandana.uiiil6yk yes u are correct!! objects can be described as blunt such a a pencil which would mean that it doesn't really have an 'edge' and is more rounded
This is because the minimal Spanish you need to communicate correctly has a more complex grammar than the minimal lever of English grammar you need to communicate, this happens because Spanish or French comes almost straigh from Latin Spanish mote than others, that's why we have such a hard language because the grammar the grammatical conjugations the pronouns and also the genders of the words are not neutral like English, due to this when you learn Spanish the mental vocabulary expands in ways that Anglo-Saxon languages naturally can't, these doesn't mean English can't be complex of course it can if you study it means that you can speak English with less than what Spanish requires.
85 years old and got them all. I just always remember to eschew obfuscation. 😊 For all of you learning English as a second language ….. you are AMAZING. Congratulations! You are taking on a daunting challenge.
My high school VP had that "Eschew obfuscation" poster behind her desk in the office. One might credit a 15/15 score to her and frequent visits to the office. RHS 1967-
Wow, that is surprising me! The french or spanish talking people I can understand. But I had a partner from Greece and that language is quiet hard to learn and speak for a German and my English is fluent. So I am kind of surprised about the seems like simalarities of both languages I would not have imagined.
as a native speaker i got 12/15, you don't need to know these words to be fluent- I have started a flamewar, my main point is that understanding these words is not necessary for fluent speakers, and doesn't matter much.
I think both "blithe" and "blither" (meaning to talk nonsence) have all but disappeared, because peiple think each might be misheard as the other, and be interpreted negatively.
1st, this is the second video of yours I have watched I love challenges like this! I'm 44 so it's been 26 years since I graduated HS. I am an avid reader 😍 my absolute favorite class throughout school was English class. I loved spelling and vocabulary. 100% honesty here, still at 44 I love learning and I have recently found myself (a lot) looking up the definition of words but it's not to know the meaning of them (because I usually know what they mean) it's to make sure my husband is using the word correctly! 😂 Because when he learns a new word, he loves using it over and over again! 😂
I got 15/15!!! I'm a senior in high school, and I really focused on the pre/suffixes for the last couple. With Eschew, I thought to the word 'escape' which shared a prefix, 'esc'. For Blithe, I thought to a show I used to watch where the main character's name was Blythe. She was a carefree and cheerful chracter, which was a long stretch, but I actually got it right!! Lol
I got 15/15! I’m a native speaker and some of these words I think would probably have other native speakers stopping me and asking me what they mean lol. I only knew “blithe” because it was in an old song we sang in my high school choir 🎶 Good luck to everyone learning English!
I got 15/15, I'm not a native speaker and just passed my 12th grade of school, I'm quite happy considering most people in my country judge others based on their english speaking skills and how many jobs allow entry only if the person knows english, it was a great comfort at a critical time, thank you.
13/15, as a European with about 20 years spent learning English as their second language! Although Eschew and Succinct were 2 words that I heard for the first time and blindly guessed correctly based solely off of the way they sound. The 2 I got wrong were Facilitate, which I've heard before but based on context assumed it meant to strengthen something, and Blithe which was another word I came across for the first time, but didn't guess correctly like with Eschew and Succinct.
Yeah Blithe was rough. I've seen it before in books, but from the spelling, my interpretation was the opposite of it's actual meaning when I guessed it lol.
I'm a native speaker and got 13 out of 15, blythe and eschew were the ones I didn't get right. I will say to the people that have English as their second language who took this test , congratulations! You are doing excellent!
12/15. Two words I've never heard before so I've learned something new. 1 word I've heard but never understood the meaning of it. Thank you for this. I want to be an author and this helped me recognize that I'm more capable than previously determined but also gave me more knowledge to further my dream. Thanks again for this video
I learned English by myself and I got 13/15. I'm kind proud of myself! To clarify, I am Brazilian and I have no one to talk to in English. Just watching videos and movies. Now in comments.
You did very well. I knew all of them, but English is my native language. I'm sure I would not have known "eschew" except the Bible says to eschew evil.
@pierre-yveschauvet5136 Never in English schools, I'm Brazilian! That's why I said I was proud, I learned by watching a lot of Friends and Movies, then I started watching without subtitles and then with English subtitles. When I went to write or read, I had a lot of difficulty. For example, when I read the word "laughing" I heard in Portuguese "lefing". Totally different, and he was trying to know the meaning of "lol". I still have difficulty reading and writing. But I improved a lot. However, to understand I can 99%, even "hood" speaking.
I am a south indian from kerala, I completed my schooling in a govt school were Malayalam (my mother tongue ) was the medium of study. Only from 5th standard I started to learn English. After schooling English was the medium of teaching and learning. Now wroking as an assistant processor in computer science. Scored 13/15. It was a good excercise. Thank you
Natural English speaker here, two of the words I don't recall ever coming across, but was able to guess the definition. Messed up strain, my choice definition wasn't listed because my first thought was straining water off noodles, and blunt made me think of a mace. Always fun when words have so many definitions. Makes it really ambiguous.
As a non-native speaker I never heard word "Blithe" used ever and I could only vaguely remember "Eschew", so I guessed incorrectly. 13/15, which is still decent. However, my first thought when I heard "blunt" was also "blunt weapons" (like a hammer, or a bat). Also also, "strain" always was for me more about *stressing* something. "This decision put a huge strain on our economy" could be interpreted as "it took a great effort" but also as "it was a blunder"
Same, English isn't my first language but I love English literature, and got 15/15 as well (to be honest I relied on some word origins to guess 2 of the words haha)
14/15, I'm a new viewer from S.E.A, never took any courses or classes on english aside from the mandatory school english that they teach and the rest i just learnt from various mediums like movies, cartoons, social media etc
There are so many old folks and kids in the comment section. It's honestly really wholesome and heartwarming to see people of different ages and backgrounds coming together for a simple test. Unfortunately, as someone who learned English mostly from cartoons and social media and a bit (maybe 35% of my current knowledge) from school, I got 10/15 correctly. Maybe 10.5 since I changed one of my options at the last second, but either way, this was fun! Thank you for this video. 😊
Italian here. Advanced vocabulary vs common italian words: Value - valore Sustain - sostenere Various- varie Emphasize - enfatizzare Typical- Tipico Consequence- conseguenze Authentic- autentico Evolve- evolvere Ambiguous- ambiguo Facilitate- facilitare Succinct- succinto Basically the only different words are : blunt, strain, blithe and eschew. 🎉
Same for French. Actually advanced English roots from French since in the old days in Europe, it was the official language of the nobility and thus queens and kings. English is NOT a Latin language (it is a Germanic language) but French and Italian are that is why we do not find some of those words difficult to guess ;)
Got 15/15. Surprised with the last part. Some of the advanced words are common in daily speech, but others like "blithe" and "eschew" are truly advanced level.
14/15, second language. I am German but consume 95% British English or American English media and studied it for a long time I'm 44 now.I failed NR. 11 "blithe" . Thanks for the new vocab 😊
Blithe and eschew were the only ones I got wrong, since those words are not brought up in conversation as often as I remember. I genuinely thought blithe was a similar word to blight, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Thanks for improving my vocab!
I'm an 18 year old from India, and got all of them right! 🎉 Always being on the "English" side of UA-cam and being a voracious reader does that, I guess 😂
Brian: Eschew
Me: Bless you
Haha😂
Bro stole what I came to the comments to say 😂
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YT captions: ISU ISO
LOL, after I watched the vid and understand this, it is so funny.
I am a native English speaker who had straight A’s. I have no idea why I’m watching this video, but it is currently night and I’m procrastinating sleeping.
SAME! Except I didn't get all striaght As. Still got all the questions right tho
Ong 😭😭
Me too.
same bro
Go to sleep!!!
I watched the video twice and got all 15 words right the 2nd time therefore my English vocab is now better than 97% of people world wide.
The fact that this makes sense
Lol 😂
😂😂
I'm jealous
That is true. Good work lad.
As a French native speaker I felt really helped 😅because all of the same words we have in commun with English :
various = varié
typical = typique
consequence = conséquence
authentic = authentique
ambiguous = ambigu
facilitate = faciliter
succinct = succinct.
Thanks Brian for this little test ! 😊
On pourrait peut-être ajouter: eschew ± esquiver
I was about to tell the same thing. I'm French and did all good in this test, like I knew all the words but a lot had indeed the same root so easy peasy 😅
I do have good English vocabulary since I almost always read my novel, manga or watch my movies in English since childhood 😊
Blythe the toughest for me.
12/15 here. i’ve never seen or heard eschew or blithe be used in anything i’ve read before, you learn something new everyday. succinct was the most frustrating because i knew the word but forgot the meaning.
12/15 here too
@@Zee_Kay_Jay11/15. 1 C1, being blunt and 3 C2s.
@@CreeperFace7729Using what you used to reinforce it, great.
How the f can we be the same... never heard of eschew or blithe, and I forgot wat succint means but I knew the word
Me too 🤣
I pride myself on having quite a distinct vocabulary but I've never seen or heard anyone use "blithe" or "eschew" before so thank you for extending my vocabulary even further.
Same, lol. Only 2 I got wrong.
Same! Never seen these words before.
I've only ever read them, never heard someone actually use them in normal conversation.
Midwesterner (USA) here, and in my five plus decades I have never heard nor used “blithe” ever. 14/15.
"Hail to thee, blithe spirit, bird thou never wert."
120 year old Antarctican here. As someone who knows all languages, im pretty happy with my 20/15. Thanks for asking!
Omg same!
is this satire 😭😭
pfft 20/15? beat 45/15
@@atlas._pawzzno
i thought i stand alone 🫡
I am from Iran and I've been self studying English for 6 years. I got 4 wrong, but I'm still glad I came so far. English is the language that connects all of us.❤
Hi im from germany
Congratulations
76 year old Gramma. I got 15/15. Because reading has been an important part of my life since the age of 6. It was an important subject in Elementary school. And I read the classics in school which increased my vocabulary, which is why I understand words like blithe and eschew. And because English is my first language. Thank you for the test! I guess I dont have dementia yet! 😂
Nice😊
Awesome 😄
Nice.
By any chance, do you also pronounce "Eschew" in the way that he did? /es-shoe/.
Same here, 15/15 (only I'm 77 yrs in old). I could read at 2nd grade level by the time I started kindergarten. That was all thanks to my wonderful mother. She had wanted to be an English teacher, but couldn't pursue her dream due to the Great Depression. She always made learning fun - never a chore. As a result, to this day, I still prefer reading to any other pastime. Thank you, Mom!
@@AnnCBelanger So you're not a movie fan, then?
As a person with English as his second language. I'm proud of getting 13/15.
Edit: I have never got so many likes. TYSM
I agree, me too 13/15.
Same, which words did you miss? 11/14 did me in. 😎
That's excellent, well done.
Same
english is my third and im 14/15 =)))
0:28 1) value
0:52 2) sustain
1:17 3) various
1:41 4) Emphasize
2:04 5) typical
2:36 6) Blunt
3:00 7) consequence
3:25 8) Strain
3:50 9) Authentic
4:14 10) Evolve
5:06 11) Blithe
5:35 12) Ambiguous
6:03 13) Facilitate
6:30 14) Succinct
6:54 15) Eschew
Thank you ❤
Thank you so much 👍
Thank you
You deserve more like
Thank you (＾ω＾)
12/15
Not bad
Started learning english 8 years ago and went to a british school. This is my first time seeing words like blithe and eschew, so I am proud of my 13/15 and expanded vocabulary
Completely same dude!
Started learning english 8 months ago for the 1st time. Didnt speak a word till then. Got 9 right. Very proud of myself.
kind of embarrassed myself that I only got 10/15 as a middle schooler and have english as my second language after seeing this comment
That's pretty good, especially for a non-native speaker. I might have got 15/15, but I understand that's not very common, I just hyperfixate on certain subjects and learn far more about them than I should lol
as you should! it's very good progress you made!
Good on ya!
English is my second foreign language learned. 13/15. I would do better with my German. Mit freundlichem Gruss.
Got all 15 but I was raised speaking English. Impressed by non native speakers who know most of these.
I'm not native and I know many more "difficult" words. The problem is I don't speak English much only read and watch TV/movies in that language. Need more practice talking.
I'm African but I guess a native English speaker due to our colonial past and decent educational system. These words weren't difficult at all. I expected some positively sesquipedalian or diabolical words. Nothing of the sort popped up, just typical words.
Do you know "penultimate" without googling it?"@@ozzyphil74
Should be "non-native."
Proper hyphenization seems to be a dying art.
You will always get the smart alecs who sailed through the test. Congratulations to all of you who got good scores even though English is not your first language 👏👏🌟 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
I'm 13 and from Turkmenistan, was learning English since I was 9. And I got 8/15, but actually I'm kinda proud.
You should be!! Sadly I guarentee a lot of English speakers wouldnt know any more than you 😮
@@gail9299 Thanks)
Yes, you ought te be proud! Well done!
Well done!😀
Good job!
15/15 ! I'm a 78 year-old grandma and a non native speaker of English.
So proud of myself!
As a native English speaker I appreciate those of you non natives sharing your results and thank you for learning my language.
aint your language lil bro
Speaking as a Welshman, English came from England and was exported to other countries, including the USA (which almost chose German). American English has developed (and sometimes remained faithful to an earlier spelling) and is now, via the Internet, changing English english. For example, we say "sukcinct", not "succinct", as in the video. Sadly, "train station" is rapidly replacing "railway station". "Change" is now that clumsy verb "transitioning". (American english turns nouns into verbs.) I prefer "biscuit" while children increasingly refer to "cookies".
@@felixwaterman4448 Yes. But also don't forget that American English is more accurate to the accent of your European English than modern Europeans countries are because ya'll became "posh" and America did not.
12/15. Some of those words are not used daily.
as a scottish english speaker i advise you to learn mandarin- cos china is the future - england and most english-speaking countries are screwed.
64 yr old Aussie mum here, 15/15. Thanks to the excellent education I received here plus the fact that I have never stopped reading books, thousands of them over my lifetime. And reading was always encouraged in my family and extended family, which has also been how my son has been raised.
Same here! English is not my native language (Mine are Haitian Creole and French). Reading books to increase knowledge was always part of my family values (both my parents were teachers). Thanks to that, I learned English and Spanish
@@francelauresampin2588 The ENGLISH LANGUAGE is not native to the USA, CANADA or AUSTRALIA, so don't even worry about it.
Broo, this isn't for native speakers, but for those who learn the language as 2nd or 3rd or more. 😂Of course you know it.
@@francelauresampin2588 It's all good, the USA doesn't even have it's own native language, only native languages throughout the land. Don't worry about it.
@@francelauresampin2588 It's all good, just like AUSTRALIA, the USA doesn't even have it's own native language, only native languages that still remain throughout the land. Don't even worry about it.
Fun video! Got 14 correct.....started laughing because I used to say she is spending money Blindly! So when Blithe came up, I thought OMG for years saying it wrong 😂😂😂
I’m a self taught English middle schooler and I got 13/15! I’m really proud of myself because I have been learning for a long time now and since English is way different than French (which is my first language) I was kind of struggling. Glad to see I improved even if some words were picked randomly!
Rosé pfp 😻
Most words were from Latin origin, so you speaking French should know them.
I speak Spanish and except for Strain, Blithe, Blunt and Eschew the rest are easily recognizable
@@elgur4512I did find the meaning for blunt and strain! Eschew and blithe was hard for me so these are the two I didn’t understand.
Well I got 12 correct. Guess what was the first language I learnt not for speaking but formally at school? It was english. Well you can technically also call me a polyglot as my country is filled with diversity and various languages. Btw I speak 3 languages.
@@dollescenttt I thought blunt is an verb or adjective of blunder. They both sound the same, also I saw it for the first time.
1. Onomatopoeia
2. Discombobulation
3. Maliciously
4. Inadvertently
5. Anachronism
6. Equivocation
7. Malodorous
8. Abrogated
9. Obsequious
10. Conciliatory
11. Misconstrued
12. Diminutive
13. Allegorical
14. Intractable
15. Corroborate
To name a few.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Now THAT'S a good list! I still knew all of them, but most of them aren't everyday words for me.
This is a much better list. Although still not that uncommon.
@@TommyZeus-i8nhah! I know that one because Guinness made an issue of it some decades ago.
If you read a lot, you'll know most all the words someone other than a lexicographer could throw at you.
I got 14/15! Kinda proud! English is my third language and having a French background really helped with most of the big words!
Fr, being french helps a lot there bc most of the words are basically the same
What the word that you missed???
was blithe the one you missed??
I missed the last one! Eschew
@@basmajalloul967bless you
15/15.
I have read 10s of 1000s of books in my 38 years of reading (age 41 now)
So many words, many that I've looked up purely on interest once discovered on a particular page of a book I'm reading.
I learn a new word every few weeks, I never stop learning.
I got 9/15, as a middle schooler and English not being my first language, I’m kind of proud
edit: Thankss!! (I might not be able to reply to everyone but thank you so much!)
Same. C2 words were so alien to me lol
@birb3 NO WAYY
@birb3 In my class they didn't even know how to introduce themselves and barely passed english 💀
@@LaSprigattio dang, bc my school has an American curriculum people know English better than their native language 💀💀
@birb3 dang 😭✋
18 year old here,i'm from Balkans and i have never learned English from a school or a book,i ussually learned from songs,movies and video games i got 14/15 last one got me,my accent is better from when i started to speak or write on English but i'm proud of myself 😋
Im from india and we learned about balkan, imternal conflicts and how ot led to ww1, so i coulnt help but remember that when i read ur comment 😭😭
@@taelien14Only English-speaking cultures avoid teaching world history.
Good on you pal, but two more tips here. After commas you should put a space, it makes it easier to read, but I'm pretty sure both ways *are* grammatically correct. Also, I have no idea if you did this because of typing fast, but i's are capitalized when you are talking about yourself. Great job learning English from just looking at and listening to it though, very impressive.
Where in Balkans im from Bulgaria
With that grammar i do not believe you know what Blithe means lol
Delighted to correct 12/15 ,but aiming for 15/15 . Thanks for teaching me three new words.
1. Blithe (Adj)= carefree and cheerful
2. Succinct( Adj.)= Brief and clear
3. Eschew(V)= Intentionally avoid something or somebody.
I'm from India and have been learning english since 2023 ,but only recently have I become serious about improving my skills.
Again Thanks a lot 💖
Same never heard of this words before
The same words that I didn´t know plus blunt
Literally never heard these words in my life, now that I know I get to confuse everyone by using these words
Same results although succinct was in my spelling list 😂
I think like 99% got these three wrong, and some of the native speakers sure have never heard of them lol
As a non-native i had 13, i need to learn more english you are doing great work !
15/15, Russian, been studying English for 9 years now. Had to guess the meaning based on the words' appearance towards the end, but I think being able to accomplish that is something to be proud of in itself.
Yes context clues and understanding prefix’s and suffix is an integral part of learning a language
Well done!
@@4ndr00med4 ‘Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe…What do you make of that?
@@mc4661 it was bright and the little lithe creature spun around in the open space
@@mc4661 Is it, by any chance, the original of:
Варкалось.
Хливкие шорьки
Пырялись по наве,
И хрюкотали зелюки
Как мюмзики в мове...
//?
13/15. Portuguese here, very proud of learning more English vocabulary with your channel, thank you Mr.Brian.
Same score, first 10 were way to easy but stuff like Blithe messed me up
Dang, i got 12 and i guessed 3 of them 💀 (c2 is just 💀💀)
was it Blithe and Eschew? lol
@Mega2chan yeah I think those two will fool the most people
Metade das palavras do vídeo tem no português só que um pouco diferente
I teach English to foreign students and being an Italian native speaker with a good knowledge of Italian lexis helps widely in interpreting some unknown words, even at C1-C2 level. The students who find it harder to guess the meaning are those who don't know any European language.
73 year old Grandma here. Got 15/15. Thanks in part to Mrs. McKinney and other teachers like her who emphasized weekly vocabulary words and reading! 📖🙌👌
That's great!
More than I can do!
I’m Dutch, only got English in High School, evolved myself through reading, listening & conversation.
I’ve got 12/15. Pretty proud of myself!!
That's awesome, well done!
I'm from Latvia. My English was extremely bad back in school. I also haven't read a single book written in English in my life, yet I've got 12/15, somehow. Movies, video games and UA-cam videos must've done their thing.
Eschew was my favorite word in this test. I haven't heard of it, nor seen it before, yet I figured its meaning remembering what sound English speaking people are making when they are trying to scare pigeons away lmao😂
I've known Dutch people who's English is better than many English people 😂
@@annekathleen4498 This guy is speaking American not English !
@@tamsinmccormickAmerican is no language. It is called American English. Because it is an accent of English same like Scottish English and Canadian English.
@@tamsinmccormick weirdo
7:13 14/15 here but not sure if these ones make me to top 3%. Surely, never heard of Blithe, the only one I couldn’t
Exactly
Same here never heard blithe got 14/15
Me too 😂 - blithe was my kryptonite
yeah me too
Glad I wasn't the only one, I don't ever recall hearing anyone use blithe in a sentence or read it in a book. It was the only definition I didn't know.
i am a 14 y/o male who has had a very broad vocabulary since 1st grade, i only got 3 wrong and tbh im not mad at all, nice video Brian!
I got 14 as an 12 year old Arabian, I am incredibly proud! All thanks to my Indian English teacher. She taught us words while reading stories
awesome! I'm 38 from Denmark and I got 13/15🎉
I've worked with some Indian people with impeccable English. Sometimes their accents are difficult to understand at first, but their grammar and word choice is excellent. If you want to be a citizen of the world, learn English, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, and German. You will be able to travel the world and converse with nearly everyone you meet.
An 12 year old?😊
@@danielpittman889 I helped an Indian man with... The red range rover went around the roundabout ~ it helped!
I got 14 could not make the second last
13/15 !!! I'm Brazilian and learning alone
I'm so proud of myself! thank you for this video. It helped me even more!!❤
Good for you! :) Were "blithe" and "eschew" the two words you missed? They were by far the most rare to hear used.
@@lawlietriver8869 Yes!! exactly!
Great job!
13 of 15 here too, mine were strain & eshew though strain to me i thought they didn't explain the meaning right.
I love learning languages. It's like music.
Value - Worth
Sustain - Support
Various - Different
Emphasize - Highlight
Typical - Ordinary
Blunt - Straightforward
Consequence - Result
Strain - Make a great effort
Authentic - Genuine
Evolve - Change Gradually
Blithe - Carefree and Cheerful
Ambiguous - Open to more then one interpretation
Facilitate - Make easier
Succint - Brief
Eschew - Avoid
I got 12/15
Got me (eschew, succint, blithe)
Blunt can also be an adjective meaning the opposite of sharp. "The person died from Blunt force trauma from a car accident"
*than, not then. 😉
same with mine. I only learn from mainstream media
I've heard 12/15 same as you.
I learned a new word few days ago: magnanimous. Every month or so I learned new words from random video.
Same
My vocabulary is rich. I’ve been a straight A student who perfected her own reading through extensive reading. I loved reading since childhood. It helped me a lot ❤
I’m a foreigner. Born and raised in South America. Learned English in my 20’s, I’m 41 now. I got 14/15. I’m shocked and kinda proud
Which one u got wrong
@@JUNXO the very last one. I had heard the word “askew” before but never “eschew”. It threw me off.
We learnt a lot in school were I come from. That you decided to learn in your twenties and scored nearly perfect really deserves some respect and you have every right to feel proud 👍👍👍
@@maliniatb I truly appreciate that. Thank you so much. I learned English when I moved to the US in my 20’s. I wanted to learn it as close to fluent as possible so people would stop making fun of my accent, immersion is the best way to learn it. Also reading books helped a lot. Again, thank you for the compliment.
Blithe and Eschew were my fails. Also from SA.
English is my first language. 14/15. I have been blessed with wonderful inspirational teachers.
English is my third lanquage out of five. Got also 14/15. Well, now I know what is the meaning of blithe...❤
English is my 3rd language and i also got 14/15. Am I supposed to be satisfied by the result ?
@@jounisyrjanen2226 same.. i got tripped up at blithe.
@@maxcrc Yes. That would be considered an A in school!
English is my second language and I got 15/15, I thought to be C1 level at max but I got all the words correctly🤩
13 years old from Netherlands here, ive been learning english since i was 5 years old. I got 15/15, im so proud of it
Cause you are from the Netherlands. It can be easily your second language.
I don't think that even those who have english as a native language would know some of the words here. Keep it up bro
@@opa8928 real
@@kazakhjojo thanks bro
14 year old from Malaysia here, I started learning English around the same age as you too, but I got 10/15. (Malay has English derived words too lol) Just wanted to say congrats and well done! Keep it up :D
Native English language speaker. 15/15. I actually use all of these words in my work as an executive. Good set of words. I think that for people who are not native English language speakers or for people who do not read a lot, some of the last five - especially blithe and eschew - would have been tough although both words have their appropriate uses. The good thing is that when you have a word for something, it makes that quality easier to recognize. It is much the same for colors - people who have detailed vocabularies for shades of color can actually see differences that people with more limited color vocabularies cannot.
11/15. I’m quite proud of it, despite having English as a second language. The power of watching English youtubers 💪
Lets Go, Got 11/15 Too😊
same aha
Just hope its not mrbeast
Just don't watch Amberlynn reid/ Alexandra rodriguez
@@hoxo4471 Well, that guy was my childhood, but I also used to watched some others such as Jelly, Slogo, you know, the infamous trio back in the day.
Im typical local Chinese from Malaysia, and since a kid Tolkien's works inspired me to study English so that I can comprehend his books... and got me 15/15. Thank you Tolkien.
Good for you! Any habitual book reader would find this test hardly a test at all.
I got 15/15 as well. Finnish is my native language.
Lotr for life❤
O would find a conversation with you more comfortable than with many fellow Brits. Our standards are (sadly) dropping.
I'm a*
Native speaker here, but I really enjoy quizzes. And at 77 years old, I think they help me stay sharp. I enjoyed this video.
Me too! I'm 74, and I miss some of the words that have fallen out of modern usage.
Same here, and I so miss Countdown, that used to be the best thing on tv.
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 Countdown stopped!?
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 It's still a thing! Just got a new host is all
I got 14/15. I've been living in the US for 15 years but i don't necessarily speak English daily. I'm glad I came across your channel though so I can brush up my English.
I’m 23 years old from Kazakhstan and I’ve been learning English since I was 6 years old.
I got 13 out of 15. Never got a chance to learn about blithe and eschew before.
Thanks for a great video!
I am American and those were the 2 words I didn't know either! Never heard 'blithe' in my life and totally took a guess on 'eschew'. Great job! 😊
@@flyce3616 the problem is “he’s American” his pronunciation of eschew is incorrect. And has many different uses like “off centre or not straight” and “not accurate”. I’m Australian, 1st language English and most Australians under 40 would get 6/15 at best. You have done incredibly well 🙏
@@nevmat1595
You are thinking of “ASKEW”
you dont' need to know those words.. they're rarely uses and more written.. this video just trying to get some views
Poetical words
78 years old recently and I got them all right: found it surprisingly easy. I've had very little formal education but have always been a voracious reader.
I’m 79 I’ve read a lot
69 years old here. I got 13 of 15. English was always my favorite subject...that, and lunch! Voracious? I'm assuming that means avid?
70 yr old here 15/15. Reader also. Didn’t get to finish school but what I did have covered all the Maths & English that has stood me in good stead.
Same with me. Really thought it was going to be tougher.
Voracious vo ray shus
A. starving
B. ravenous
C. insatiable
English is my second language and I got 15/15. I thank my ESL teacher who taught me English 14 years ago as he used the word eschew in real life.
That's funny. The word is rather pedantic. One would only hear it from a teacher (if at all).
I know the word well but it simply isn't spoken. It is seen in print though.
ESL?
@@michelashraf5948 ESL stands for English Second Language :D
@@michelashraf5948 it stands for English as a Second Language
@@howard5992True, seen way more often in books than heard in conversation
14/15. I am from Belgium and not an english native speaker.
This was surprisingly an easy test. If your primary language is English, you should reallly have 15/15.
Learned about the word eschew ! Thank you
no, one uses blithe or eschew in NYC so i know what i'm talking about!!! ;)
I am a 287 year old Narnian Latin Professor and English is my first language but I got a score 205784/15 so I am glad I am still able to comprehend such and immense language to a penultimate degree.
Are you from the future?
I'm Yoda. Older than eternity I am and got wrong three I did.
The ironic part of this is you just misused 'penultimate'
Are you from the future?
uh
Got all correct. 74 years old. Education back in the day was very good
These would’ve been known well by middle school for many who were actually learning reading, writing and arithmetic. Now, it’s amazing when you find cursive. I believe it should still be taught. How will they read a letter that comes in cursive or learn to actually sign their name. Of course, people can get by without it but to me cursive is also an art. There’s expression in it unlike printing. I would like our schools to teach subjects that are fundamental. Even home economics was helpful. All my cooking classes and sewing classes taught you math. Leave much of the things that fall outside this for electives or even for college. I didn’t send my children to s*x ed either. I’m a medical provider and I believe I can cover all topics well. Plus, my kids were not afraid to ask questions about anything. Sometimes I wish they had been 😂. Maybe we should be voting in this nation what’s important for children to learn. Some ideas might be surprising and helpful.
62 and also went to school when the teachers actually taught you. As opposed to now where they fill your head with trash and make you question if you're something that you're not.
75 me 2 we had good store bought book learning 🎉🎉🎉
@@mikeflorence314F...no M16 for me 🎉🎉🎉perciate your service 🎉🎉🎉
@@mikeflorence31We all remember that.
You folks who speak english as a second language really did great.
My first language is English so I got 15/15. I’m so proud of you folks!🎉
Many of the words he said come from Latin, so all of us who speak Romance languages are going to say them very similarly in our languages
So great some perhaps will now make it their first language. Everyone is equal but I'm traditional, practical, and old school. LOL.
@@louisfarina4732 ?
cap
I got 14/15 because the majority of these words comes from French and therefore Latin. As I am French I would like to thank William the Conqueror, a French Normand Duke who became King of England in 1066 after the battle of Hasting. He brought so many French words in England that nowadays 41% of the English words come directly from French. It helped me a lot in learning this second language :)
English is my second language, that said I got 15/15. I took my ESL classes at college before taking my Nursing classes here in the US plus I read a lot, mostly Medical and Science books, that sure helps.
Got all of them. I’m 77 years old and vocabulary was a mandatory thing back in my day.
I'm 74 and got them all as well. You are in the same generation as I am and we did learn vocabulary back then but more importantly, we read books and not computer screens. Have a great day.
@@WilliamStyers Based on your name I’m also gonna guess your a native English speaker, while this seems to be a course aimed at foreign speakers, hence the 97% of the WORLD.
Congrats, your English vocab is better than that of a Chinese/ French/ Spanish / xyz person.
Smh
@@hamster4618 I agree with you. And I am indeed a native English speaker. Having said that for those who did so well that were not, congratulations. English is such an irrational language that it is hard for anyone who didn't have it as their "milk" language to learn and be fluent in.
15 out of 15 here, age 76. Agreed, intelligent thinking in general, built on a foundation of solid vocabulary, and differentiating and expressing subtle meanings in particular, was to be expected when we were growing up.
Same age, same score.
I'm 68 years old and I had to quit school in the seventh grade for personal reasons but I went to an excellent elementary school and my family members read books about different subjects all the time. We had books stacked against our walls in our house, hundreds of books.
The first books I read were the Wizard of Oz series by a guy named L Frank Baum. I used to walk to the Carnegie library in my little home town by myself and spent many hours there reading to escape my turbulent household.
I managed to get every one right 15/15.
👏🏽 Bravo. I’m 74 and a high school grad 1968. My Mother read to us from an early age and my Dad bought us a set of encyclopedias.
, so I’ve always loved reading and all 15 words on that list were familiar to me.
Good for you👍
@balloonfarm5903 Me too! Same age and similar background. I was lucky enough to go to college because my parents started saving for it when I was born. Reading is a great way to expand your vocabulary! Did you ever just sit down and open a book from your encyclopedia and open it to a random page, and just start reading? I loved that.
Carnegie would have been delighted. You are why he built all those libraries.
LOL. You are a fool for not having understood the real goal of this video which is to have you watch it to the end. It does not matter how many words you got right if you watched it to the end you are an easily manipulated fool like me. I watched to the end and immediately felt ashamed and upset with myself that I fell for the oldest trick in the book. Yes, you got 15 out of 15 and you failed because you did not understand the main goal of the video which was to use your own vanity to keep you watching until the end. Congratulations... FOOL.
14/15, almost got it all :) and English is my third language. Thanks to my English teacher for having us to study the merriem webster’s word of the day every week.
damn thats amazing
12/15 , Native polish speaker with English B2 level and ambitions for C1 , but to be honest this was kinda easy but "Eschew" "facilitate" and other word that I don't remember now really stunned me
I'm 78 & have been called a "word person" all my life, this was very good to keep me sharp...15 of 15😊
I love words too. I will soon be 68
@soniaetter1850 I never loved words, just ideas. But I realized that to get ideas across effectively, I needed a decent vocabulary and decent grammar, too.
Im 72, im chuffed got 15 ✅️.
Ditto only I’m 77!. They were easy.
So have I. There's a word for that, if you didn't know...SESQUIPEDALIAN. 😃 (You're welcome.) By the way, if you've never played Wordle, you should. It's the perfect word game to keep you sharp but not drive you insane. Free on the NY Times, and you need not create an account or provide personal info. Best of all, it's one and done--you cannot play it more than once a day. So there's no risk of going down the rabbit hole. I also play Connections on there; it's fun too. And I typically hate video or online games. But these are different.
I didn't realize this was for non-native speakers. Got them all, but I'm an American and love words and write for a living. Good work for all those who got them!!!!
All 15 correct. Thanjs to my parents and grandparents for being fabulous examples.
What kind of writing do you do?
I am non-native speaker but might as well be one now, since I came to the US at 16 and I am now 60. I still missed one, but I had come across the one I missed before, just forgot the meaning. I guessed correctly but if I had to guess, I would not count it.
I read the Encyclopedia Britannica at a young age. I grew up on a farm and there wasn't much to read. My Mom considered the Encyclopedia to be decorative, but I read it cos it was there.
😂
11/15, Algerian here, you just made me feel proud about myself ❤
برافو عليك مليح بزاف 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Samee
Also Algerian, got 13/15
@@thegentelmen8984 congrats, khouya 😊
Facilitate is originally a French word ( facile = easy ) , if one would look at the word facilitate they would think it's more likely a derivative from facility. But since English is a living language ( expanding ) we can expect it to grow more with time. And sometimes using words from other languages.
As a native speaker of English and as someone who is trying to learn another language, I have the deepest respect for the non-native speakers who took this test. Congratulations for even attempting it; double congratulations for those who did well! I got 15 out of 15, but, as I said, I am a native speaker. I also love words. Good luck to everyone attempting to learn and/or improve their English skills; native and non-native speakers alike!
❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻
Thank you!💙💙💙💙
Thank you dear👍🏻
Thank you so much, bro. I'm not English native and English is not my mother tongue (I just a student who studies at Foreign languages department) but I did it on 12/15. Blunt and some C2 vocab got me.
@@terosleitking9838, I think that is exceptional! You seem to be doing well at your studies! ❤️🌻
@@terosleitking9838 Don't feel bad, some of these words were ambiguous.
Native English speaker here. Got all right. I study French & Spanish & it’s eye opening how these languages actually increase my understanding of English.
I agree, like Facilitate.. Facil..... 😀
I also am a native English speaker and I speak Spanish and study French. I, also, am amazed at at the similarities between the languages.
Correct me if I'm wrong (not a native English speaker). At 2:37 blunt could almost mean something with almost to no edge, So it mostly depends how we use it, correct?
@Vandana.uiiil6yk yes u are correct!! objects can be described as blunt such a a pencil which would mean that it doesn't really have an 'edge' and is more rounded
This is because the minimal Spanish you need to communicate correctly has a more complex grammar than the minimal lever of English grammar you need to communicate, this happens because Spanish or French comes almost straigh from Latin Spanish mote than others, that's why we have such a hard language because the grammar the grammatical conjugations the pronouns and also the genders of the words are not neutral like English, due to this when you learn Spanish the mental vocabulary expands in ways that Anglo-Saxon languages naturally can't, these doesn't mean English can't be complex of course it can if you study it means that you can speak English with less than what Spanish requires.
85 years old and got them all. I just always remember to eschew obfuscation. 😊
For all of you learning English as a second language ….. you are AMAZING. Congratulations! You are taking on a daunting challenge.
Eschewing obfuscation is the key to communication, consequently, the reduction in frustration is beneficial to longevity.
Good going so far😊😊😊😊😊
Hardly daunting ..it's about THE easiest language known
My high school VP had that "Eschew obfuscation" poster behind her desk in the office.
One might credit a 15/15 score to her and frequent visits to the office. RHS 1967-
14/15! The fact that I am Greek really helped with a lot of the words! Made me feel really confident with my English though!! Thanks 👍😊
Wow, that is surprising me! The french or spanish talking people I can understand. But I had a partner from Greece and that language is quiet hard to learn and speak for a German and my English is fluent. So I am kind of surprised about the seems like simalarities of both languages I would not have imagined.
as a native speaker i got 12/15, you don't need to know these words to be fluent- I have started a flamewar, my main point is that understanding these words is not necessary for fluent speakers, and doesn't matter much.
That's real, knowing those words doesn't instantly make you a vocab pro
same I’m native and I got 12/15. half of the super hard words I’ve never heard of
I'm so glad to hear this. I'm not a native English speaker. Thank you.
im non native and also got 12/15, im 13
Knowing these words will help you understand some comedy stand-ups and some literature. If you read one
Had absolutely no clue about the meaning of "blithe". Thank you Brian!
Glad to help!
The same. The only use I know of is in the title of Noel Coward's play "Blithe Sprit."
It's a rather old word. It was said as being 'blithe and gay'. Used together meant happy and carefree.
@@meredithgreenslade1965 "Blithely" is not that uncommon in Britain, although I suspect younger speakers wouldn't use it.
I think both "blithe" and "blither" (meaning to talk nonsence) have all but disappeared, because peiple think each might be misheard as the other, and be interpreted negatively.
15/15. Never heard of eschew & blithe being used anywhere before, took a guess & got them right. Thanks, I learned some new words today
Yeah got em all right but blithe just sounded happy like idk how to explain they just sound similar to other words
If eschew & blithe was only words u guessed, then it doesnt count. U did 13/15, the vid isnt about guessing, u didnt know the words so
1st, this is the second video of yours I have watched I love challenges like this! I'm 44 so it's been 26 years since I graduated HS. I am an avid reader 😍 my absolute favorite class throughout school was English class. I loved spelling and vocabulary. 100% honesty here, still at 44 I love learning and I have recently found myself (a lot) looking up the definition of words but it's not to know the meaning of them (because I usually know what they mean) it's to make sure my husband is using the word correctly! 😂 Because when he learns a new word, he loves using it over and over again! 😂
I got 11 outta 15 and English is my 3rd language. So proud of my self !
me too
3rd language!? Boy you better be proud of yourself xD
I got 13/15 and English is my 3rd language too, not even third I would say 😅
Hindi, english, japanese (byanime), russian
same
English is NOT my first language and I got a 15 on 15. This was such an ego booster and motivated me so much, I definitely needed this. Thank you.
Man you guessed
Tbh these are not that difficult
You probably did better than most Americans.
Good for you!👍
Ironically native speakers tend to be worse at speaking and knowing English than non native speakers lol...
Got all 15, but then again, I graduated HS in 1970...when vocabulary was still emphasized!!
‘73. Same
Graduated in the early eighties in the Caribbean where there was a massive focus on vocabulary.
Graduated 2012 and got all of them. You act like all younger generations are dumb. There was once a time when people thought creationism was real.
1970. Same
@@sylvialawrence4431 hush children! I graduated in1960!
I got 15/15!!! I'm a senior in high school, and I really focused on the pre/suffixes for the last couple. With Eschew, I thought to the word 'escape' which shared a prefix, 'esc'. For Blithe, I thought to a show I used to watch where the main character's name was Blythe. She was a carefree and cheerful chracter, which was a long stretch, but I actually got it right!! Lol
72 years old. Got 15 of 15. Words I use and surprised you consider any of them advanced.
I agree! Same age and my Mom was an English teacher! Words I grew up hearing!
Yep 71 here and we were taught to choose your words wisely because they reflect what you mean to say not what others think you said.
Agree. I’m 57.
67 and got 15 of 15.
QED
Yes, it is astounding that anyone would find most of these difficult words.
I got 15/15! I’m a native speaker and some of these words I think would probably have other native speakers stopping me and asking me what they mean lol. I only knew “blithe” because it was in an old song we sang in my high school choir 🎶
Good luck to everyone learning English!
got 15/15 in middle school, and english is my second language :)
@@canaldocassio8632 bravo, keep it up kid
I got most of them correct
but I only got blithe because it sounds like blissful
Blithe Spirit came to mind
Okay but when tf did anyone in your entire lifetime utter the word "eschew" 😭
I got 15/15, I'm not a native speaker and just passed my 12th grade of school, I'm quite happy considering most people in my country judge others based on their english speaking skills and how many jobs allow entry only if the person knows english, it was a great comfort at a critical time, thank you.
Nice. Which country btw?
you Indian?
@@jasontheskeleton4799 yes friend, I am a person of indian descent.
@@bz9590 it's india.
@@gigachad6624 that makes two of us, keralite here and in 11th, gotta go to hostel at the morrow
13/15, as a European with about 20 years spent learning English as their second language! Although Eschew and Succinct were 2 words that I heard for the first time and blindly guessed correctly based solely off of the way they sound. The 2 I got wrong were Facilitate, which I've heard before but based on context assumed it meant to strengthen something, and Blithe which was another word I came across for the first time, but didn't guess correctly like with Eschew and Succinct.
I have been studying English for over 15 years. Got 13/15 and learned 2 new words. That's the only way forward!
were those words Blithe and Eschew ?
@@esaiahganesan4344 you sr are correct-o
Always remember, eschew obfuscation!
Yeah Blithe was rough. I've seen it before in books, but from the spelling, my interpretation was the opposite of it's actual meaning when I guessed it lol.
@@esaiahganesan4344Blithe was the one I had trouble with also.
I'm a native speaker and got 13 out of 15, blythe and eschew were the ones I didn't get right. I will say to the people that have English as their second language who took this test , congratulations! You are doing excellent!
i also got 13 out of 15. Those two words aren’t exactly commonly used (as far as i am aware)
I got 13/15 and those *are* the two words I got wrong.
Hmm... if you're a native speaker you should know that your comment "doing excellent" is appalling grammatically.
As a native speaker you should know that the phrase "doing excellent" is grammatically incorrect!!
Same results but English is my second language
79 year old from Pakistan. All 15 correct. May I venture to state that the quiz was simpler than one might have guessed. Thank you!
I got all of them right. I kept waiting for the hard stuff.
Me too. I kept waiting for tough words and they never came.
Me too, too. None of these were remotely difficult. I find it hard to believe 'top 3%'.
Anticipated, or expected, rather than guessed. 👍👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿
Are they just trying to make us feel smart? I can't believe 97%wouldn't know them I got all right, and I didn't finish the 9th grade
1. Worth- value
2. Sustain- suppott
3.Various - different
4.Emphasize- highlight
5. Typical- ordinary
6. Blunt- straighforward
7.Consequence- result
8.Strain- make a great effort
9.Authentic- genuine
10.Evolve- change gradually
11.Blythe- carefree & cheerful
12.Ambiguous -open to different interpretations
13.Facilitate- make easier
14. Succinct- brief
15.Eschew- avoid
15/15 I’m proud because English is my second language I’m so proud!!!
Same! You should be proud, congratulations!
You did better than me, a native English speaker
@@EnderTheGalsame, I didn’t know succinct, blithe or eschew, and I thought I had a better than average vocabulary
14/15. I missed blithe.
I have made the like count into 69 now
12/15. Two words I've never heard before so I've learned something new. 1 word I've heard but never understood the meaning of it. Thank you for this. I want to be an author and this helped me recognize that I'm more capable than previously determined but also gave me more knowledge to further my dream. Thanks again for this video
I’m 82 and got 15-15! English was my best subject in school!! And I have great power of retention!!👍
Great effort
You are an English wizard my good sir
Fatima Payman will tell you what kids watch
Woah, oldest person I've ever seen on UA-cam
wot is retention.? just kidding.well dun.
as someone with English as their second language, i'm pretty proud of my score of 12/15.
Last time I checked, I was level B2, now I got C1!
I learned English by myself and I got 13/15. I'm kind proud of myself! To clarify, I am Brazilian and I have no one to talk to in English. Just watching videos and movies. Now in comments.
You did very well. I knew all of them, but English is my native language. I'm sure I would not have known "eschew" except the Bible says to eschew evil.
@@joannbates8037 sorry to say but bro shun, eschew, refrain, desist, skirt, forbear, abstain these are common words🙂 you should know it.
@pierre-yveschauvet5136 Never in English schools, I'm Brazilian! That's why I said I was proud, I learned by watching a lot of Friends and Movies, then I started watching without subtitles and then with English subtitles. When I went to write or read, I had a lot of difficulty. For example, when I read the word "laughing" I heard in Portuguese "lefing". Totally different, and he was trying to know the meaning of "lol". I still have difficulty reading and writing. But I improved a lot. However, to understand I can 99%, even "hood" speaking.
@@sagnikchowdhury925 I'm Brazilian!
@@sagnikchowdhury925 I did know it.
I am a south indian from kerala, I completed my schooling in a govt school were Malayalam (my mother tongue ) was the medium of study. Only from 5th standard I started to learn English. After schooling English was the medium of teaching and learning. Now wroking as an assistant processor in computer science. Scored 13/15. It was a good excercise. Thank you
As an Indian, and English being my fourth language, i got 14/15! Proud
Awesome 🤩
Same, blithe is the only word I'd never heard of before
and then everybody clapped
Same
Bro, have you seen that Indian teacher teaching English😂
Also, I kinda feel bad for the student.
Brazilian here. Pretty satisfied with my 14/15. Have never heard Blithe before, but always good to learn.
Natural English speaker here, two of the words I don't recall ever coming across, but was able to guess the definition. Messed up strain, my choice definition wasn't listed because my first thought was straining water off noodles, and blunt made me think of a mace. Always fun when words have so many definitions. Makes it really ambiguous.
As a non-native speaker I never heard word "Blithe" used ever and I could only vaguely remember "Eschew", so I guessed incorrectly. 13/15, which is still decent. However, my first thought when I heard "blunt" was also "blunt weapons" (like a hammer, or a bat).
Also also, "strain" always was for me more about *stressing* something. "This decision put a huge strain on our economy" could be interpreted as "it took a great effort" but also as "it was a blunder"
I got 11/15, I immediately subscribed your channel to improve my English. I want to build the best out of me.
Oh!! I also got 11/15 right now.
Same here
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15/15 right -74 years of age, dropped out of high school to marry at 16 almost 58 years ago. Reading is key in increasing one’s vocabulary.
Same, English isn't my first language but I love English literature, and got 15/15 as well (to be honest I relied on some word origins to guess 2 of the words haha)
Me too, dropped out for my 17th B-Day - never looked back. Which great author have I not read?
Same here. English is not my language but I aced this quiz 15/15. I love reading
U still with her?
@@senpaiofursensie3675 I’m still with my first boyfriend and husband.😄 We have 5 adult children, lots of grandkids and 5 great grandchildren .
14/15, I'm a new viewer from S.E.A, never took any courses or classes on english aside from the mandatory school english that they teach and the rest i just learnt from various mediums like movies, cartoons, social media etc
There are so many old folks and kids in the comment section. It's honestly really wholesome and heartwarming to see people of different ages and backgrounds coming together for a simple test. Unfortunately, as someone who learned English mostly from cartoons and social media and a bit (maybe 35% of my current knowledge) from school, I got 10/15 correctly. Maybe 10.5 since I changed one of my options at the last second, but either way, this was fun! Thank you for this video. 😊
Only missed one
Italian here. Advanced vocabulary vs common italian words:
Value - valore
Sustain - sostenere
Various- varie
Emphasize - enfatizzare
Typical- Tipico
Consequence- conseguenze
Authentic- autentico
Evolve- evolvere
Ambiguous- ambiguo
Facilitate- facilitare
Succinct- succinto
Basically the only different words are : blunt, strain, blithe and eschew. 🎉
Both sets of words have their roots in Latin, hence the similarities.
What blew away when I learned Italian (German speaker who lived in English speaking countries for many years)was soddisfatto.
Same for French. Actually advanced English roots from French since in the old days in Europe, it was the official language of the nobility and thus queens and kings. English is NOT a Latin language (it is a Germanic language) but French and Italian are that is why we do not find some of those words difficult to guess ;)
That works well the other way around, too, when studying Italian....
Infact italian helped me a lot to know most of these words, I am from Jordan and got my degrees in Italia..thanks
Got 15/15. Surprised with the last part. Some of the advanced words are common in daily speech, but others like "blithe" and "eschew" are truly advanced level.
Is blithe an old word?
@@ZeroKyle YES! I never heard it used once in my life of 70 years!
"blithe" is archaic but "eschew" is not really advanced in my opinion.
I've heard blithe but never heard succinct and eschew.
More bookish than advanced IMO.
14/15, second language. I am German but consume 95% British English or American English media and studied it for a long time I'm 44 now.I failed NR. 11 "blithe" . Thanks for the new vocab 😊
Blithe and eschew were the only ones I got wrong, since those words are not brought up in conversation as often as I remember. I genuinely thought blithe was a similar word to blight, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Thanks for improving my vocab!
I'm an 18 year old from India, and got all of them right! 🎉 Always being on the "English" side of UA-cam and being a voracious reader does that, I guess 😂
Jusmio
@@faisaparveenali9285 You’re definitely doing the right thing 🥰 congratulations!!!
Wow! Great 👍
Proud of youu!! \(^o^)/
I missed blithely. It was fun though