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If You Know These 15 Words, Your English is EXCELLENT!
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- Do you know these 15 English words? Then your English vocabulary is truly amazing!
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This video will test your knowledge of advanced English words- nouns, verbs and adjectives. And if you answer all 15 questions correctly- congratulations, your English better than 97% of speakers worldwide.
Thanks for watching!
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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.
As a person with english as his second language. I'm proud for getting 13/15.
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 =)))
As a native English speaker I can confirm that I have never heard the word eschew in my life. Wasn't 100% sure on the meaning of blithe either, despite having heard the word a lot, but guessed both correctly.
Edit: I have never been one of the top comments before, thanks everyone :)
Whew, that makes me feel a little better about my English as a non English speaker. 🥲 thank you for relief ♥️ I was on the verge of panicking 🥲
Those are the ones that I dont know. I know the rest of words in this video. I will not memorize them
I never heard this word before. But i guessed correct because it reminded me of the German word "verabscheuen" oder "scheu" and the English word "shy", so eschew would be "shy of".
So you've eschewed that word your whole life?
@@billmarshall8438 Indeed 😂
My home language is Arabic and I learnt English completely on my own through youtube. Proud to say I got a 14/15. Blithe got me. Never seen that before.
Pretty good.
Hhhhhh same😂
Mentioned in percy shelves poem
same, arab and learned english
i got 10/15 or 12 if u count the two i guessed
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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 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.
I got 9/15, as a middle schooler and English not being my first language, I’m kind of proud
edit: thanks yall (my notifs r blowing up loll 😭😭)
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 😭✋
12/15
english as my 3rd language, i’m really proud of the results i’ve gotten.
i started learning english since i was 8 years old, not in school, but in Roblox, somehow.
i kinda just tried to learn english on my own by looking at other people chat with each other, and it kinda worked!
although i’ve got a bad grammar on the early years of learning english, i learned from others on how to properly pronounce and write words, so school was basically useless, and i breezed through english classes without studying at all.
i’m now 14 years old, and school has yet to teach me something i don’t already know.
the internet is sure filled with surprises!
How am i only getting 14/15 with english as my first language. I've never even seen the word "blithe" in my 14 years of existence 😭
I’m 35 and I’ve also only come across the word blithe once or twice.
Otherwise I think every word here is pretty standard English.
In my experience I've seen blithe few times in books. But Eschew never in my life. It's like someone sneezed.
im 14 aswell and messed up in blithe aswell and got 14/15 😭 english is my second language tho
@@cata1297 me neither. I randomly guessed and got that question right somehow.
I actually saw it quite often, but the last 2 words I have no recollection of seen.
But maybe its just we never knew what those words are when reading so we just understood the context and ignored the word.
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*
13/15 is so much better than I was expecting of myself
13 out of 15 ...
❤😂
too 😊
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 🇮🇪
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
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.
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
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!
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. 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.
Not one word stumped me. But I'm an English speaker and an avid reader. This is a nice well-rounded selection of words. I'm going to have my teen grandchildren try!
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.
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.
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.
Here's to the nuns that taught me English back in the 70s! You did a bang up job! 15/15! Congratulations to those who speak English as a second language. I am a native speaker from the US. I would Hazard a guess that most native speakers in this country would find some of these difficult given today's standard of teaching.
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 ?
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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 :)
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.
11/15. I’m quite proud of it, despite having English as a second language. The power of watching English youtubers 💪
Same 🦍🦍🦍
Lets Go, Got 11/15 Too😊
same aha
Just hope its not mrbeast
Just don't watch Amberlynn reid/ Alexandra rodriguez
I'm pretty proud of me. I got a 9/15 score! As a Brazilian who learns English in school in junior high, some words were similar to the traduction. It helped me very much.
Tamo junto mano!
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 TH-cam
wot is retention.? just kidding.well dun.
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.
I have never been to high school (only grade 9) but I got all 15 correct… the reason, I am well read… I have been reading all my life .. read every day. Years ago I wondered why my spelling, grammar and word knowledge surpassed most everyone I knew.. pretty much all of which are at minimum high school graduates. The conclusion I came to is because I read so much.
I used to proofread letters for my ex-wife who was an executive assistant for a very large company to help her word things properly. I usually get all my word spelling correct and use proper punctuation and know when to start a new paragraph etc.
If you’re looking to understand and learn English, read books, newspapers and whatever you can get your hands on. The best book to read is the Bible! It’s amazing what you can learn by reading that. I’m 59
So your conclusion is that if you read more, you're better at reading. Got it. Then pushed the Bible. I think you are lying and missed the word succinct.
@loganagolw You missed the word 'rude'.
@@marionopisso212 wasn't on there, maybe watch one more time.
@@loganagolwNo, you missed his point in your rush to be obnoxious. The actual point is that the more you read, the better your comprehension, vocabulary, and understanding of grammar and punctuation is. And yes, your ability to read and understand more complex material will increase, along with your ability to apply critical thinking to other aspects of life.
@@judycroteau482 oh so you also have noticed this wild phenomenon?! That doing something more will make you better at it?! I'm not sure but this may be a new discovery. We're going to need to contact some media and get this out there, this is absolutely groundbreaking. We can do this guys, let's change the world. Wait til athletes find out about this
English is my second language, and I got 14/15 !
I'm happy for this performance! It was so helpful this video I loved it!
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
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.
If this is true, Im literally so shook that this puts you in the top tier of English speakers…these weren’t difficult words! Whoah 🤯
Whoa!
Don't read that much into it, it's not that deep lol
The Presenter is an American, so that means his base English is "Simplified English" as promoted in the USA by that Webster bloke. American vocabularies are about a third of the size of the average natural British English speaker.
I agree Nikki~ I was somewhat astonished as well ~ surely these cannot be considered difficult words!
Like you knew what blithe or eschew was 😂
French here. I got 14/15 and learned a new word ! Blithe wasn't part of my english vocabulary, and now it does.
I got 9/15, but I’ve been started learning English since November 2022. I’m proud of myself!
Congratulations. I am a non-native speaker, but English is part of my country's education system.
Keep it up and you will reach the level of English proficiency that you want.
Would it be alright if I offered a small grammatical suggestion for your comment?
* [have been + verb in gerund form (+ing form)] is usually used when an action started before and is still ongoing. The focus of this statement is the duration and the ongoing status of the action.
* [past tense of the verb] is used when you want to point out that an action was performed in the past. The focus is when the action happened and leaves some ambiguity about whether the action is still ongoing.
So back to your statement, it would be more grammatically correct to say either of the following:
I've been learning English since November 2022.
OR
I started learning English last November 2022.
Although, I think the first one sounds more fitting given the context of your statement.
@@jholmes553 thanks for your advice, I appreciate it. Yes, we’re still learning, we’re just go forward.
I'm proud of you too. Good job!
@@MichaelTimmons-ef3lu I appreciate it🙏
Great Job!!!
I thought these were extremely easy with only blithe and eschew mildly difficult. I got them all right but have been an avid reader, word lover and had a mom with a Masters degree in English and taught school for 40 years so I went into this quiz expecting 100%. I am really impressed with the number of school kids and non-native English speakers who took this quiz. I applaud all of you and you will go far in life and work if you keep learning all the time! I wish you all the very best in life!!
The spelling on the last word is incorrect
15/15 as well, but knowing the meanings of other words and that words can be related helped to guess on those two: "blithe" looks/sounds reminiscent of "bliss" or "blissful", whereas "eschew" is somewhat like "shun" or to "shoo"
Yup! I agree. There are harder words out there. The pronunciation definitely killed me though. Eschew got me bad. Lol!
I used to chew the rind, but now I eschew the rind.😊
eschew almost tripped me because of its pronunciation, we sound out the "s" , 14/15
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
My teacher told me to watch this since I always passed my test, turns out now I know why my language are graded higher. It's surprising to know that English isn't my native language and I excel at it, I'm very proud that I learned English when I was a kid. 15/15💪
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
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" 😭
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 .
Got 14/15. Missed on blithe (failed because I switched to similar constructed word "blight" and guessed there was a correlation, therefore I guessed "serious and somber" as the word I deducted generally implies negativity).
Did not know about eschew, but guessed correctly due to discarding "Promote" and applying the following train of thought: "the preposition on the word approaches it to "undo", but the word is too niche to be so obvious, so I guessed "Avoid" and was right". Still learned two new words.
By the way, english is my second tongue, although im a bilingual thanks to my early education. My english is a bit rusty for my liking, but glad to see that I'm almost tip-top shape with it.
Im 72 and got 15/15. As soon as I learned to read I would read every book I could get my hands on and loved every minute. I still love to read. Kids today don't know what they are missing!
Kids today? hmmm I know many kids today that read plenty. My two sons are now grown men and always AP students, reading fluently before 1st grade. Most people get old and trash younger generations... for such a literary scholar, you seem to not get that part.
If you do not count people with learning difficulties anyone who speaks the English language and is 18 or over should have got at least 14 of these.
Holding an actual book and turning the pages is so good for you. You get lost in another world and so many people now days will never experience that simply cause they don’t want to.
Quit bragging. I'm a 30 yo Indian and got 15/15
Got them all. Blithe and eschew were the only challenges in my opinion. I think this little test was to keep suckers like me attentive during the whole video.
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
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.
I lived in california for 2 years and learned english there, I was satisfied with 10/15 and I think I can make videos with english instead of spanish
You folks learning English as a second language are to be commended. From reading your responses it is clear your knowledge of English vocabulary surpasses most U.S. born highschool graduates. Well done.
I am an English teacher in my country. I have grown up speaking and reading English at home, so I think my English should be better than American high school graduates!
I knew all 15 words. I have loved to read all my life and know that’s why I have an extensive vocabulary. Loved this!
Me too! I knew eschew, blithe, and succint. The political media has ruined English with wrong usage of words like-- optics, bravery, democracy, to name a few.
Right there with you.
Could you recommend some good books that I can read to improve my vocabulary??
@@Starlight-pc7io Fantasy novels. A lot of them tend to use words or phrases that have fallen out of favor in every day speech.
Me too. But my family would not agree that I actually know the meaning of succint.
I know the meaning; I just don't apply it.
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
Wow! I can proudly say that, as a non-native speaker in conventional understanding of this word, I got 15 out of 15.
Keep working hard and you’ll get wherever you want!
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.
😂
Native English speaker here, I've never used blithe, succinct, or eschew, ever in my life. Nor have I heard them being used in daily conversation, ever! Anyway, all the best to all language learners, I hope you reach your goals.
‘Eschew superstition’ is a succinct adage that should not be blithely dismissed.
C2 words are usually very uncommon and used in very specific contexts, that's why you were not familiar with them. I, as a Portuguese native speaker, don't know all C2 Portuguese words either. :)
I was thinking the same thing. No Native English speaker uses those 3 words.
I got eschew and blithe only word missed was succinct 🫤
Blithe was the one I got wrong. Hadn't used it for years and I just forgot. Got to say one word definitions aren't exactly easy or accurate as you need more than one word to get an accurate definition.
13/15 and my satisfaction is beyond measure as, it is coming from someone who is self taught ,I’m a native português speaker from Angola
this test for me testifies that belief in oneself and continuous action can surely move mountains.
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Got them all.
Can you suggest me how to improve my English even more
Same 13/15 😁
71 years experience under my belt.
@@tomwhite716 that was really helpful
As a person with english as a third language. Im proud of getting 15/15.
Ha! Got all 15! At 68 and an avid reader/vocab/grammar fiend, I love words, sentence structure and am constantly expanding my vocabulary. I never spoke baby talk to my children, exposing them to words far above their age from the get-go. It makes me proud to hear them as adults using obscure words and phraseology. It keeps brains sharp and interactions interesting. 😊
I’m a little older than you, and your comment is virtually what I could have written! This is why we both scored 15/15. It’s really satisfying to have a strong vocabulary.
So we are competing with a veteran/elites 💀💀
We got no chance
I got 14 and English is my third language while I also am not an avid reader and my vocabulary is very basic
@@AmazonSyncLink prove it
I prefer the words articulate and nuanced to "using obscure words and phraseology"
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
I'm 66, native English, and easily got them all. But I remember vocabulary being tested frequently in school. Plus, I've always been an avid reader and to this day continue to look up any words I run across that I don't know. Easy with the computer nowadays but I used to literally read with a dictionary by my side. PS: Love these types of word games, tests, whatever you want to call them. Feel they help keep my mind sharp as I age. Thanks!
Wait, guys, the amount you guessed correctly does not matter.
He explained the definitions of the words for each question.
You know all 15 regardless of your score.
Welcome to the top 3%.
English is my 3rd language so getting onto 3% was impossible from the start
@@Doki_Natsuki It's my third language as well :o
@@Doki_Natsuki your pfp is fuel for my dreams
@@Doki_NatsukiThat’s impressive! What other languages do you speak?
@@Hudson3528 georgian is first russian is second and I've started learning Deutsch (don't know much yet though)
As a middle school student and nonnative English speaker, getting a 12 out of 15 makes me feel proud ❤
Thank you Brian!
same
you did great 👏🏽
@@nickrodriguez3850 thx
i got 15/15 being in middle school and english not being my first laungage
i feel proud!
@@canaldocassio8632 yeah you should
I am Afrikaans speaking....think I did good....only 3 words, but now I know them! Thank you ♡♡
Great job!! :)
14/15 for a french girl, im proud. But I achieve an international master , where the courses was in english, so it helped a lot.
I'm from Norway, English is my second language, and I got 13 of 15. Absolutely Magnificent. 😎👍
Denmark here, learned some English as an adult, now retired, but blithe and strain was unknown to me.
I got 13/15, English being my third language
Let me guess blithe and eschew were the words you didnt get?
Ofcourse hajaha @@FeliceManna
MR SAVAGE
I'm a native speaker, but never in my life have I heard "Blithe" "Succinct" or "Eschew" I learned something new, thank you!
Algerian, i got 13/15.... i got succisnt right, because its nearly the exact word in french
same, but I got 14/15.
Same here.13/15, old man from Germany. Got 'blithe' right, but never heard 'succinct' and 'eschew'
Same here, I guessed right on eschew but the other two were my only errors
I encountered these words in books.
Got them all. Fifteen years as an editor and technical writer and over thirty years as a broadcast presenter. In my childhood, mother told me to eschew obfuscation. I never forgot it.
...and avoid cliches like the plague.
@annsanse2935 I've never been so vocally jovial over a comment in my lifetime. I am still chuckling with untold mirth as I compose this brief missive.
That's good advice.
Well, that was two words I've never heard before ... 😁
One of the literary rules that Mark Twain listed in "The Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper" was, "Eschew surplusage."
As an Indonesian and middle schooler who is not diligent in my English course and even though I seem to have mastered all the material in my course even before it was taught, I got 12 correct answers out of 15 questions, hey I'm a little proud :),
Well, if you got "eschew", and "blithe" wrong that's ok. You might never hear these two again in your life 😅
That's not true, I only recently came across "eschew" in some news article and hence remembered what it meant. Not sure about "blithe" though it's the only one I got wrong.
blithe
Sussinct...?
Your kinda rught, eschew can be replaced with avoid and blithe with care free, you can use them in an essay tho if you want to impress your teacher
@@R_.709i hate how i literally came across blithe and eschew in multiple texts and eve the bible and still couldn't remember o infer what it meant...
Got 14/15, and I’m not a native speaker. Never heard « eschew » before, as well as « blithe » but then I remembered « Hammond you BLITHEring idiot! »
As an American native English speaker, I didn’t even think of the connection between blithe and blithering until JUST now, you are a GENIUS! LOL
Got to love a Top Gear reference 🤣
@@alsyrriad There is no connection between them as far as I can tell, except, you know, the spelling.
That's a fun thing about English, even when some old words fall out of fashion, if they also had certain variants or words related to them we maybe still use those variants despite not really using the actual word itself much. Like we still say "bliss" and maybe "blithering" like you said (though the latter one isn't very common outside of iconic quotes either), but not so much "blithe" anymore despite them all being directly related.
@@DailyPolemicsIf you look at the full definition of blithering you can see a connection 😊
I'm not a native English speaker, I'm not even an English teacher and I've never lived in an English speaking country. Had 14/15, "blithe" was totally unknown to me. I'm quite happy with this result :)
Excellent!!
That's the only one I missed also. I've heard it many times as blithering idiot. Didn't equate that to carefree. Looking back, makes sense.
Same here. Nonnative that has never heard of Blithe. It sort of sounded like a plant pest to me.
Same for me!
I bet you’ll remember that word now. 😉 I sure will. It tripped me up also.
66 years old and a writer, very happy to get 15/15! Thank you for a fun video! 😊
Americans ALL dropped out at the word , " English " !! 😉😂😂
Ditto, but a bit older!
Wow!!! As a writer you should be very proud 🤦🏻♀️
Specially if you happen to be born here. Good for you.
13/15 as a 7th grader and native speaker is better than I thought, facilitate and succinct tripped me up
same except i've never heard blithe 😭
77 yrs old
Product of parochial schools of the 50s and early 60s. Irish descent. Got all 15. More impressed by scores of "English as 2nd language" participants.
All these words were taught to me in 5th grade. 30 words per week assigned Monday test Friday morning. Your mother had to sign the test over the weekend. Back then, we studied reading, writing, and arithmetic. If english is your second language, anything over 10 is outstanding!
12. Thank you :D
15/15 - My parents were Communications professionals. My mother was a writer and an editor, my father was in Marketing.
Having a varied vocabulary was important to them and to pass onto my brother and me.
Got them all right but don’t ask me to spell them!
As an Argentinian who has english as his second language, I'm quite impressed over my 11 / 15 score, I thought i knew English well, but seems like there's always room for improvement. Thanks for sharing this test!
I got 15/15. I attribute my vocabulary to the fact that I have always read as much as possible, where I was subjected to new words all of the time.
I have done the same!
Looking up words I didn't know helped a lot, too.
I got them all right also. But I am an avid reader and when I was younger, if I didn’t know a word, my dad would make me look it up in the dictionary.
Reading is the biggest vocabulary builder. If I don’t know a word and can’t figure it out from context clues, I must look it up. It’s almost a compulsion. Ebooks have made looking up words so much easier than when I was a kid.
I got them all right too and speak English as a second language. However, I’m also a voracious reader-as in read roughly 200 books a year.
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.
Got 'em all. No problem. My dad had a M.A. in English and was an elementary school educator early in his career, and later worked at a major university teaching business and personnel management in small and large corporations. When I was growing up, he and I played Scrabble a lot - with a Webster's unabridged dictionary close at hand! We had so much fun. Words, and using them correctly, was always important in our house. More importantly, using our words kindly in speaking to and about others was always emphasized. Thank you, Daddy!
15/15. Though I was raised in English speaking schools, no one really communicated in English there. I owe all my vocabulary to watching movies and TV shows and gaming with people online
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I got 11/15, i'm very happy about it and i feel more confident about myself about english now :)
I got 15/15 as a 14 yo french guy, so I’m really proud :)
Nice!
Bravo! My guess is you beat most of the average native 14--year-olds!
La même, j'ai failli me faire avoir par Blithe
En vrai être français est un avantage de fou, vu le nombre de mots « compliqués » venant du français
14/15, not a native speaker, but have lived in English speaking countries for almost 30 years.
Same…never heard of the word blithe
I had heard of it but didn’t remember its meaning.
Im a uni student from Slovakia and I got 14/15 correct. Although I doubt such words are oftenly used in conversations its a great idea to expand your vocabulary. Keep up the good content.
21 year old from India, English not being my 1st language. Still knew 12/15 words correctly. Kinda proud🎉
I got 11😢
Same here 12/15
Im tweanty years old. English is my third language and I got 13/15. I failed number eight and the last one.
15 year old from India got 15/15 words like blithe and eschew , I put them in context of use got it right,
@@manjulchakraborty3709 same here
14/15 As an Egyptian surrounded by non-English speakers I am proud of myself but I always strive to learn more intricate vocabulary …
Thank you Mr. Brian
Don't use "blithe" in the United States or people will look at you as if you are an imbecile.
I dont know why mr bean, he barely speaks, at least thats how i remember it. Btw, i watched mr beast one day for like 4 hours as a kid and entered such flow state that i learned english in second 💀
15/15 thanks to a high school English teacher who drilled us on a thousand vocabulary words over two semesters. Remember that we should always eschew obfuscation and espouse elucidation!
Bravo/brava!
LOL
Yes we should😊
Absolutely!🤩
Got 2 wrong, I had never encountered the word "blithe" before, and I completely forgot what "eschew" meant. Been learning english fully on my own since I was like 13-14, now I'm 21 (as of a few days ago), and this makes me feel all the more confident about my knowledge. Great test!
As a French it is really easy to get almost all of them, since 11 out 15 of direclty come from French.
Value - Valeur
Sustain - Soutenir
Various - Variété
Emphasize - Emphatiser (even tho today it doesn't mean the same thing)
Typical - Typique
Blunt - 0
Consequence - Conséquence
Strain - 0
Authentic - Authentique
Evolve - Evoluer
Blithe - 0
Ambiguous - Ambiguë
Facilitate - Faciliter
Succinct - Succinctement
Eschew - 0
I’d say most of those terms come from Latin, which is the language French and all of the other romance idioms originally derived from, and ended up becoming part of the english lexicon - which is actually of Germanic heritage - thanks to the many reciprocal influences both France and Britain had during the course of several centuries, starting from the Middle Ages… sorry if this reads as pedantic, btw lol
They do not come directly from French but from the same source as French. It's not the same and it's like saying that your brother is your child and not that you have the same parents. Why do the French always have to attribute everything to themselves?
@@krzysztofuczkowski6274 the thing is they do not have the same parents, you could argue they are very distant relatives - with both of them being a relatively “modern” product of the same language tree, the indo-european one - but at the very best their last common ancestor dates way, way back into the past. It really comes to you guys being equally correct in your own distinct way, cause English actually did borrow those terms from French but due to their shared history - that’s what you’d call extra-linguistic reasons, technically speaking -and not because of linguistic ties
@colonel_cookies_ actually, these words come from Latin. English is a Germanic language, but it does have many words that come from Latin and quite a few from Greek as well.
@@dulcerock2989 They come from french usually. Since french is a romance language of course this means that the words that English adopted from french will be similar to the latin version and the version of other romance languages, but the case is that English adopted these words from french since "nobody" was speaking latin when English emerged, but people where speaking french or proto-french.
7:14 never heard of it , this is beautiful, it seems like my English skills still need to further improve and this makes me giddy with excitement haha
This is so sweet
No they don't, if the reason is not knowing succint, eschew and blithe. Apparently from the comments, eschew is the only one that's still being used and even yet, let's be realistic, nobody will talk with you using these words.
I've never read or heard eschew compared to the many times I've encountered succinct. Then again it's also used (but as rare) in french (succinct, exact same letters) so maybe that's the reason.
All three are commonly used in writing. If someone regularly reads, they would encounter them quite often. I often hear native speakers use them as well. @Quorkosco.
@@cheeeeezewizzz Probably in classic literature like sherlock holmes. and my point still stands anyway, you dont need improvement for not knowing these words
I got 12/15 ,from India 🇮🇳 and i am middle schooler child and english is my 2nd language , i kinda proud myself
You should be! Great job! 🫶
🎉keep up the hard work of a second language 🎉
Same but i got 9/15
Same bro 12/15, from India.
Same but I got 15/15 also I am a highschooler
Being a non-native English speaker , a faculty in American University for the last 15 years, and teaching graduate students for the last 8 year, I got only 11 out 15 words and missed 4.
This is a great quiz to improve your English proficiency.
I got 13/15.
Heard some new words at the end, like blithe, eschew and succinct.
Succinct = Concise
same
Same here.
Same
I learned the word succinct by giving prompts to ChatGPT lol
13/15 as someone who never learned English at school, I'm kind of proud of all the movies I consumed over my lifetime. Watching English language movies with english subs helped me a lot. Sometimes I'd understand the meaning of a new word by the context of the sentence and sometimes I even look up the word's meaning in the dictionary and try to memorise it.
I am a native speaker and i only got 13/15. I have never heard the words blithe or eschew in my life. You could go your whole life without seeing/using those words
@@derekcarter2645 those were exactly the two words that I didn't know the meaning of. I'm sure I encountered the word Eschew somewhere but I've never heard of the other one.
15/15, but then again I have the advantage of being a native English speaker and vocabulary nerd. I love weird and wonderful words :)
What would you advise to read to broaden the vocabulary with words of C2 level?
Interesting question! I read a lot and almost always look up words I don’t know, so I think a lot of it for me was just learning over time. In particular I think there are often more words in classic literature which would be uncommon by today’s standards; for instance when I was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (which I really enjoyed, by the way) I found myself picking up my dictionary much more than I usually do with more recent books.
So reading some classic literature is likely to expose you to words you don’t already know at a higher rate, but my main bit of advice is if you come across a word you don’t know, look up what it means. Also if you’re trying to express something but the word you’re using doesn’t quite fit, look up synonyms! I swear that like a quarter of my search history must be for synonyms, and I come across words I don’t know that way all the time. And try to be excited about words if you can, I never forget to look up the words I want to learn because I’m genuinely curious and excited to find out what they mean 😁
@@kinet1q reading a song of ice and fire (game of thrones books) has a ridiculously high level of english vocab. helped me massively
English is my second language but got all 15, yay to being nerdy!🤓
Random words to flex vocab: defenestrate, don(as in wear), snigger(the “had us in the first half” word), beseech, bestow, usher, askew, unto, sntntn. These are some off the top of my head.
I got all 15 correct and the one that was most difficult was blithe! Anyone who got all 15 deserves applause. Good pacing by the moderator.
I'm 74 years old and in school, in the 1950's and 1960's words and their usage were number one in english class. 😊
Got all correct. 85 years old. Schools actually taught spelling and English way
Back when!
Spelling and English rather than the number of genders and and trying to indoctrinate students to perverse lifestyles.
@@patbullard9276 - Yeah, no more Jim Crow.
So true, and that's sad
15/15 at age 80.
Apparently they didn't teach you to discern truth from bs.
I'm 79 and I got all 15 right
This test must have been meant for someone who has English as a second language.
@@CALVINLNIKONT or someone who was educated after the 1980s! They don't teach vocabulary like they did when we were in school. Remember all those vocabulary lists we had to learn? Luckily, I learned to read when I was very young and was already reading Pilgrim's Progress in first grade. I read most of the classics before I was out of middle school, so a lot of esoteric words are still floating around in my brain at 74!
Agreed. Pretty basic. However, not unexpected as young people don’t read; they view.
77 year old Vietnam vet.....also 15/15
67...15 right. Seemed easy and maybe not intended for native speakers.
You'd think, but sadly I'd venture to guess that the vast majority of Gen Zers and probably Millennials too, would not do well on it. That's not to say they aren't intelligent, but they just don't have the vocab.
Yay! 10 out of 10! Then I got the other five! All those "5 words a day from the dictionary" every day for years as extra study from my stepfather! He had me reading at 3, doing basic math at 4. Thank you dad... you got me into the Navy too, and loved it! Mostly cause you laughed. I know you would been proud though.