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Old May 30, 2014, 07:04 AM
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It certainly would be interesting to see what their words word source is... It seems to me that they took one of those new dictionaries that include some conjugated verbs and derivated words, but they're not exhaustive. That would make some of their invented words actually valid, just like "bobillo" and "claverío".

- Ahí está Juan haciéndose el bobillo.
- ¡Aguas con el claverío que dejó el niño!
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Old May 30, 2014, 09:42 AM
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I looked up bobillo in RAE and, according to that source, the word pertains to sowing or a jug. I assumed it meant little dummy. As for cominillo, I assumed it meant little cumin seed, and I guessed right. Although I got 70% right, there was guessing involved, and it was impossible to verify if all the words I said I knew were correct presumptions. Luckily I wrote down a few to verify them with dictionaries.
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If you look closely, at the end of the test there are links to expand sections for the words you got right/wrong and which ones are made up words etc. They also have links to the definitions of the words.

I should make a list of all the words I got wrong (that are real words) in both languages and study them.
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Español es mi lengua materna y yo también hubiera aceptado "claverío" como correcta. El sufijo "río" significa concurrencia o multitud de. Ej: chiquillerío, montón de chiquillos. En

algunos lugares de Argentinas he oído decir "mujererío", gran cantidad de mujeres
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That was great for destroying my self-confidence in Spanish. I'm going to go study a Spanish dictionary now, haha.
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That was great for destroying my self-confidence in Spanish. I'm going to go study a Spanish dictionary now, haha.

Take it again, maybe you'll have more luck. They sometimes ask words I have never even heard in German when I translated them.
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Gané 79% en inglés. Nunca respondí "sí" a las palabras inventadas.

Gané 43% en español. Reconocí 50% de las palabras correctas. Me sorprendió mucho que gané tanto (hace tan pequeño tiempo que empecé a estudiar español). Pero hice muchas conjeturas. Por eso respondí "sí" a 7% de las palabras inventadas ("eláltico" y "cánvea"). No tengo idea de las definiciones de algunas palabras correctas que "reconocí" por conjetura.

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