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Test Your Aptitude for Learning a Foreign Language

21 questions, 24 passages

Test your aptitude for language learning by doing this quiz, adapted from The Sunday Times Magazine. Choose your answers to find out how good a language learner you are.

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Question 1

1. Learn the following Samoan words (Samoa is in the South Pacific) without taking any notes of them: toalua – husband, tamaitiiti – child, loomatua – old woman, tamaloa – man, taulealea – youth Did you find this task:

Question 2

Exhausted after swimming the river, Fred decided to get some sleep, but the "boolles" made it impossible, and even the smoke from his camp fire didn't keep them away. What is a boolle?

Question 3

Someone asks you the way in very bad English. When he/she doesn't understand your reply, do you:

Question 4

Here is a new language: ek kum chuchu – the train is coming; ek namas chuchu – the train is very big; nek kum niva chuchu – the train isn't coming; ek chuchu – it's a train. How would you say: "It's not a train"?

Question 5

How many foreign languages can you greet someone in?

Question 6

Your boss tells you that you have been chosen to go on a six-month course to learn a completely new language. Do you:

Question 7

You go to an evening class to learn a language. The class lasts two hours a week. List the sorts of practice you might do on your own at home and choose how many of them you could suggest:

Question 8

How good are you at expressing yourself in your own language, both in speaking and in writing?

Question 9

When did you last read a book for pleasure (in any language)?

Question 10

Have you got:

Question 11

Read through this list of words (12), then write down as many of them as you can without looking: pin, church, identify, luxury, accelerate, carefully, miscalculate, occasional, anxious, knot, daffodil, impertinent.

Question 12

In one minute write a list of things you could do with a cabbage (apart from cooking or eating it) and choose how many your ideas of have managed to list:

Question 13

In one minute write down as many reasons as you can why it might be useful to learn Eskimo and choose how many motivational reasons of have managed to list:

Question 14

Fill in the blank with one of the words below: Shakucomespiteare isos wonone ovofef tehe wororolid's grematerest's-wririterners. Hehe wasis ___________________ onin Staratarafoorrd-inon-Aravont.

Question 15

What is your attitude to learning about British culture (arts, institutions, way of life)?

Question 16

What do the following word in Samoan mean: loomatua?

Question 17

What do the following word in Samoan mean: tamaitiiti?

Question 18

What do the following word in Samoan mean: tamaloa?

Question 19

What do the following word in Samoan mean: taulealea?

Question 20

What do the following word in Samoan mean: toalua?

Question 21

Are you male or female?

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