What’s Your English Level? | Advanced English Test
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- These 20 questions will test your understanding of advanced English. Are your skills at an advanced, fluent, or native level? Time to find out!
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Thanks for the video ❤
15/20. Thank you, I’ve never heard the word “a catch 22” before.
The novel is hilarious! Start reading now
Same here! 😅
Not me either 😅
It's an reference to a book by Joseph Heller by the same name. It's about pilots who go on almost suicidal bomber missions in WW2.
As mentioned, it is from the very entertaining novel "Catch-22." For anybody who has been in the military, you probably knew people very similar to all the characters in the book and it will be extra enjoyable. It was made into a movie, but the movie mainly captures only the overall darker than the book rather than the dark comedy absurdity nature of it. The movie did, however, have General Dreedle's B-25 Mitchell painted a sort of flesh color, with General's flags attached to the front (like they do on limousines), and with whitewall tires. And that was fun.
"Keep making videos like this; it really helps us to understand English better, I swear."
I’m glad to hear that!
Got all 20, but I'm a native English speaker and been around a long time. I'm not sure that identifying a color or a fruit is so much a test of English as it is general knowledge. Anyway, anyone who spends much time in the legal system will hear "but for" a lot. And "pulled through" is a verbal phrase. I know this from another test that had 15 verbal phrases to explain. I got all 15, but what I did NOT the term "verbal phrase" existed.
وحشتنا قوي يا براين فين فيديوهاتك بالعربي
You're absolutely amazing! Thank you so much!
I hope you enjoyed the test- how did it go?? As a reminder:
[8/20] - Advanced Level
[12/20] - Fluent Level
[18/20] - Native Level
I answered 16 questions..And believe it or not Brian, I'm an English self taught.. Best regards from Cairo ❤❤
@@randaabdelrahim8184 oh... nice
Fellow Egyptian here
Brian Wiles I'm Egyptian studying Japanese I already know how to introduce myself I learned hiragana and Katakana and I need to know what apps and text books and podcasts I should use and I use anki for vocab and I'm trying to find to learn grammar and kanji and vocab and pls reply and I like your videos
@@Louai9815I’ve actually got a video about learning Japanese coming out in the next few days 👍
@@randaabdelrahim8184Great job!
I got 13 😂am i really fluent?
You are the best teacher in all languages, Mr. Brian. We love you and support you forever ⚜️♥️
That's very kind, thank you!
I answered 19/20 but idk.... I feel like they're too easy especially cuz u said 16/20 and up is native level.... I'm definitely not native level 💀
I think he meant 18/20
But that still makes u a native lol
Can you help me please
www.gofundme.com/f/m82uu-help-me-and-my-family-to-evacuate-from-gaza?modal=share&source=fundraiser+sidebar
Because u don’t practice your language u just study grammar maybe
Maybe you're a grammar geek 😅
Native English speaker here: I took the test as I was curious to see what you regarded as must-know criteria in order to be accurately classified in the aforementioned categories. The only one I didn't get right was the question which in my opinion had more to do with knowing proper body anatomy than it did with actual knowledge of English itself (I had no idea where the hell my own femur bones were located lol!). However, I thought that the other questions, such as sentence rearrangements, determining the proper word order, plurals questions and preposition choices were more of an accurate bellwether to successfully tell people what they need to know about their own distinct levels.
P.S: I should add that many native speakers would get many of these wrong due to not knowing the proper rules behind things like contractions (your/you're), plurals such as "phenomena" or "criteria", spelling and even conjugating the more "obscure" irregular verbs out there. But great test overall, hope my feedback helps and doesn't come off as arrogant.
Thanks very much for your feedback! And yes, I think most native speakers would get 1 or 2 of these wrong... I did my best to cover a variety of different topics and means of comprehension, but some of the information is a bit technical (like the question you mentioned).
@@BrianWilesLanguages Thank you for your reply! I think you're an awesome language learner, and you always come up with interesting video ideas! Respect :)
I'm pretty sure knowing that the femur is the largest bone is just common sense, are you by any chance American
@@BrianWilesLanguages Isn't femur technically a Latin word? Just trying to keep it honest. Your videos are great.
Most native speakers are stupid. As a native speaker I shake my head at people who consider themselves natives
3/4 Of people who use English in the world are not natives. Its not necessary to have advanced level of english because key is clear communication. When I started using English in practice I noticed that I was using too many strange words and I realized that I need to stop using them and simplify my way of speaking as much as I can because not everybody will understand fancy words I was using.
Wise words, good advice!
Well, doesn’t it depend on the topic of conversation or on a subject that is being discussed?
As a native speaker, I agree. People generally use the most simple words possible, except for when people are trying to sound smarter than they really are. (Like in a government or court setting)
Well I didn't know that I'm at the Fluent level 😎
Thx teacher Brian👏🏼 a lot love sent from 🇵🇸🇵🇸 to you ♥️
Congrats! And love to 🇵🇸 as well ❤️
❤️🇵🇸🇵🇰
انا قاعد اهبد و جبت ١٣😂😂 بس نص اللي جاوبتهم صح بالحظ
خويي 😂
11/20 :(
The answer for the first question was unexpected 😅
( But I learned a lot )
عشان خاطري يا براين اعمل فديوهات عربي تاني 😭
17/20 as a non-native speaker lets goooo
Funny that people say they never heard "A Catch 22" which is a commonly used phrase. I have never heard anyone say "A Hail Mary". I doubt that even many native speakers ever heard that.
Hail Mary is a very American saying. It has to do with American Football.
I am 14 out of 20😢
BTW Thank you mr.brian learned some new things today 😊😊😊
شكرا يا برين على الفديو ده ربنا يباركك☦️✝️
You are absolutely rocking your explanation. I love how you explain all the options as well. Many thanks, and keep inspiring all passionate students.
Thanks so much, Terezia!
I got 17/20 but I think the sentence “This afternoon, Alex wants to buy shoes” is correct, no?
Yes, that would also be correct 👍
I answered 13/20 I am a 12th grade student, I am 16, living in India.
Same score, from Poland
I'm probably advanced, but no way I'm considered fluent getting 12 correct answers
You might be better than you think…
17/20 I guess it's not a bad score for a second language speaker😅
Nice video I got 15 out of 20.
Well,Brian, I scored 16/20 on your HARDEST English test. Thanks. Larry Carroll
Yeah i am very happy ❤️😂
It's 14 ❤️
I'm fluent 💃💃
Thank you Brian ❤
Improving my listening here with you from Brazil.
1st question is literally 8th grade level grammar in American schools
(I’m an English native)
Yes, I’d say that’s right. And native English-speaking 8th graders are highly fluent!
@@BrianWilesLanguages really, that’s crazy how fluent some people can get in another language
I got 19, I never seen the expression a catch-22. Thanks for this video, your approach is straight to the point, unlike most of other teacher.
same here, I got 19 and I missed the expression A CATCH-22
13/20 😃 i did not know I'm that fluent 🤗
Great job!
في كلمات اتخلطت بالثقافة المصرية لون بيج وفوبيا وسيراميك وفاكهة الكيوي وعلى مع اعتقد براين عارف ده وبالذات الكيوي لانه براين اشتغل في سوق خضار لفترة 😂
😉
Thank you very much ❤❤❤
I'm Egyptian..🇪🇬🇪🇬♥️♥️
There are 21 questions mate
Excuse me, but what has to do with the knowledge of English the fact that "femur" is the largest bone, kivi is that fruit etc? Kivi is kivi in pretty much any language, same for "beige" (the color), femur is a medical term. Why you mix English words with technical names that everybody knows? Are you teaching science or agriculture?
I am Arabian but I not good in English too hard صعب جداااااااااا
15/20. I've never heard " a catch-22" before! 🙃
The book is good. There was also a movie.
انا لما اكتب بالانجليزي انسى الكلمات كيف افعل حتى الكلمات الصغيره اللي انا حافظها انساها bro ❓
hope you make more videos like this, i learned more things in less than thirty minutes than in my whole year of high school. brian the best teacher!!
Thanks a lot, and I’m glad it was helpful!
13/20, English is not my main language, I'm proud of myself
Norwegian here ... 17/20. Including one silly mistake. Still not "native", IMO.
خلي محتوي القناه ثابت و موجه لناس معينه عشان مش تضرب ريتش القناه
To easy… 19/20 right. In Norway we start to learn languages at the age of 6 y.o. in 1. grade of primary school both english and Norwegian.
My father at the time was a college teacher in history and languages like Norwegian & english, while my mother worked with the airline SAS - so we did a lot traveling from a young age, through my childhood and so on… So I started getting an interest for languages, litterature, cultures, history and more on from around 4-5 y.o. I was at the time the youngest member of the lokal historical society from the age of 9-10 y.o. Most of the members there were between 55-65 y.o. then. The leader of Stjoerdal Historical Society at the time was my teacher from primary school… He mentioned onde that I was a gifted young boy at the time… About 10 years later I was diagnosed with Asperger and was told by my adult psychologist who spes. in ASD(Autism spectrum) that I did not just have Asperger, but also a savant syndrome in way like Kim Peek and Stephen Wiltshire with a memory that is both photographical, videographical and audiograpical - and perseption to see things in both 2- and 3D form, from Maps, roads, buildings, infrastructure above and belove ground.
A few of my closest friends have told me as an aspie I have an deep emphaty that most people with not normaly have. Maybe that makes me more compassionate and caring as a person. The interest and the will to help other people learn and understand more of the world around us….
So far in lite my interest for languages I’ve learned 15 languages from our two types of norwegian, english, swedish, danish, german, dutch, french, Italian, latin & gresk, arabic & egypthian, konkani(Goan in India) & hindi… Still keeps learning new things… I mostly use norwegian & the Skandinavias languages, english, german, french, italian and konkani on my travels…
شكرا يا براين انا عديت الامتحان بنجاح انا استمتعت جدا بالفيديو شكراااااااا ❤❤
any another native speakers watching this?
The only "mistake" I made was to put "this afternoon" at the beginning "this afternoon, Alex wants to buy some shoes". I did have to add a coma for it to make sense but other than that the sentence is perfectly fine as such isn't it? Can you officially confirm that this is not a real mistake and that therefore I officialy scored 20/20?
جبت 4 (2 منهم بالحظ ) هذا ونا احسب اني مختم الانجليزي وكنت رايح اتعلم ياباني 😂💔
"Pull up" can also refer to when someone arrives somewhere in their car, usually in front of a building. Like, "I pulled up to the In-n-Out drive thru window," or the song lyric "Ok I pull up, hop out at the afterparty" (exclusive to capybaras)
I got 11/20...but I remembered that I have a super power which is time traveling ,so I rewatched the video and got 20/20.
Haha
@@BrianWilesLanguages 😂😂😂 احلى براين حلقة البطيخ كانت جامدة
19.5 out of 20 (got one of the irregular verbs wrong). Still not considering my English to be near-native. Nice quiz, though - love this kind of challenge. 🙂
13/20 I honestly thought i would get more right, but this was humbling, Here are my answers:
1❌ 2 only got “sheep”
3✅
4 with my laptop lighting looked more light pink than beige, i’m only realizing this as I’m commenting from my phone now.
5 doesn’t sound right it’s like the sentence started midway! Idk maybe bc i’m not native
6 got 1,3
7 ✅ 8✅ 9✅ 10✅
I chose “A” because it sounded right not because i knew the adjectives order rule.
11 got 1,2
12 ✅ 13✅
14 ✅ 15 ✅ 16 ✅ 17 ✅ 18 ✅ 19 ❌ 20 ✅
I scored 10/20
I think it's good
شكرا لك
14+1/20 It was a pure guess on question 19 so it would be unfare to count it as a correct answer) Overall I'm more than satisfied with the results, since English is my 2nd language
Enjoyed your video, very informative, I got 14 correct answers! Most of your questions are really easy!
Got 10/20, but i am still happy to learn about new terms such as “windfall”, “catch-22”, and “hail mary”
16/20 (though I only missed maintenance (6) and ground (11), for two more points. And I was sloppy with the plurals, I just thought "sheep is sheep" so I didn't really stop to think the others😅)
Bro i have issues with learn french and developing my english at the same time, any solution pls?
Yes, I have a video about learning two languages at once- I would recommend checking that out!
@@BrianWilesLanguages alright thx means a lot💗
I missed only one, but I'm far from being a native speaker. Anyway, give me more of these, I'm having fun.
I got 16/20 but I am nowhere near native level, I guess there were some answers which I knew just because my native language is similar to some of those, like mby 3 qs
I learn English as a second language and I am not native speaker but anyway i got 18/20 I think its mean.that i am.almost.fluent.maybe😂😂
Mst of my native English students woukd do very poorly.
16.6/21
18/20 thanks for boosting my confidence. I haven't actively done anything for my English for ages...
if one answers right the questions by chance or without understanding why they get them right, I think it's absurd because that way one is never going to learn why it has to be like that, I personally knew some of them and got some others by chance and that's why I consider I should keep on studying
I got 12 totally correct and I felt like it's a bad grade Regardless U said it's fluent and BTW I saw it later Cuz I was busy
I answered 10/20 but my real English level intermediate 😊 thank you
Kiwi is a NZ bird or the name of a New Zealander. The fruit is called Kiwifruit
The way he speaks is so robotic
Why math? is knowing the number 25 a C1 level or what?
15/20 teacher of English from Ukraine
Please have Turkish subtitles 😊❤😊❤
Sadly, I know many people that are native speakers that might get 8 of these.
I got 8/20, I am really proud of this result 🎉... Q: What the difference between horror and fear ?..isnt it the same meaning 😅?
They are close- but ‘fear’ is an emotion, and ‘horror’ is a concept. You can have a fear of heights, but not a horror of heights. You can watch a horror film, but not a fear film.
18/20. Pretty good. I’m Vietnamese btw
create a whole video telling how u learned arabic. Unrelated to this video but i really want it!
يا براين اعمل فديو بالغه العربيه ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
قرقريب ان شاء الله
@@BrianWilesLanguages مستنيك بفارغ الصبر يا براين
Yay! Got 15/20 so that’s ok. Am not an American.
اتكلم براحه علشان اقدر افهمك ❤
I am in b1 level but i answered 9/20 questions 😂 so i leveled up ??
13/20 close to getting one more and one got with intuition
Question 17 is not that useful to test English vocabulary as the words are similar or even the same in most other European languages. Similarly the Greek "phobos" is used in most European languages in the same way as in English. So, those two are more questions of common knowledge.
My only issue is with the first question. It's not an issue with you, but an issue with how English is constructed in this case.
Because yes, in the case of showing the dog's possession of something, we would remove the apostrophe. But you might have noticed the apostrophe I chose to use in the last sentence is _also_ correct, as in the apostrophe of ownership ("that is my mother's car", "it had been Peter's pen all along" etc)
So im forever getting in my own head when it's like _"you know there's no apostrophe in this form of its because i want to show possession"_ then the angel on my other shoulder chimes in with _"possession!? Then why aren't we using the apostrophe of possession!?_
And i have always found that to be quite a silly mechanism of the written word.
It's certainly a quirk of the English language!
The last question should have been a bit more challenging
Funny how I got 16 out of 20 because:
I couldn't calculate (I studied computer science 😂- how the hell did I calculate 21? I'm normally good at mental arithmetic 😂). However, given that there's no question 15, I will deduct a point for you too 😉
I didn't know that THAT was the color beige. I always perceived it as a bit more yellow than that and I didn't know the color cobalt (well I knew the word, just never saw the color). Fun fact, beige is also the name of that color in my native language (Dutch).
I didn't know about femur.
I couldn't think of "but for", I'd understood it though when I heared it.
The time pressure was stressing me out.
Haha fair point about q15!
أكتر أمريكي يحبه المصريين ❤
16/20 I’m a little slower now brain wise as I age.
14 outta 20😛 but also plus 2 of them I partly answered correctly
💪💪
Haha, how many native speakers are participating.
This guy is litterly the Marquis De Lafayette
🫡
I'm definitely non native although, I answered 18/20 😂
But for real I answered 2 of them by exclusion 😅
Thanks Brian, you are a great teacher ❤
Thanks!
thanks alot Brian, you are great. I'm following you from Iraq. Mosul city 🇮🇶🇮🇶
Thank you, Abdullah 🙏
Are you play the role officer laskey in series person of interest?
Never heard but for some reason. Is it local to some area
I didn't expect that but I got 14 out of 20!
There were some expressions i had never heard before but some other questions were more accessible.
Thanks for your test, it has definitely boosted my confidence and my motivation !
Yeah, I'm an English fluent. 😎🖤👍
13 correct answers honestly and 2 correct answers by luck 🤭🤭 any way I'm fluent 🎉❤ and so happy to be. thx for real 🙏❤
Really nice 👍
اشتاقينالك يا براين
راح احاول أتكلم باللغة العربية الفصحى
أنا من العراق وواتمنى ان تزور العراق لأنه يشبه مصر في كل شيء تقريباً لو تمشيت في شوارع العراق سوف تشعر كأنك في شوارع مصر جرب ولو لمرة وحدة تأتي إلى العراق لكن في العراق الجو حار لان درجات الحرارة ممكن ان تصل إلى اكثر من ٥٥ درجة مئوية ف لازم تحذر وتجيب ملابس صيفية ، وايضاً في العراق الكثير من الوجهات السياحية والتاريخية ، أتمنى ان تزور العراق 🇮🇶 وتحياتي
We miss you, Brian
I will try to speak classical Arabic
I am from Iraq and I hope that you will visit Iraq because it resembles Egypt in almost everything. If you walk in the streets of Iraq, you will feel as if you are in the streets of Egypt. Try even once when you come to Iraq, but in Iraq it is hot because the temperatures can reach more than 55 degrees Celsius. You must be careful and bring summer clothes, and Iraq also has many tourist and historical destinations. I hope you will visit Iraq 🇮🇶 and my regards
And maybe my English language not very good because I’m just 12
And thank you💕
12/20 let's fucking go 🗿🗿😂
18/20
* I answered question 16 with "This afternoon, Alex wants to buy some shoes" even though there's no comma among the given words.
* For question 6, I couldn't spell "maintainance"...
AAAAAAARGH!!!
Maintenance* 😊
@@EngyAmr AAAAAAARGH!!! 😁
I got 17/20 thanks for a great vids! Best regards from Thailand
Great work, and thank you!