Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Original post by MangoFreak

Me? I don't remember appealing for advice :holmes:

(I imagine you're not referring to me though :tongue:

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I believe Constantmeowage gave a shout out to Polymath and the absolutely fabulous Octopus_Garden earlier on in the thread, when we were discussing my potential misuse of the word 'das' :tongue:

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Vionar

Original post by thatitootoo

Yeah but that's still % right
for instance 39/40 raw marks would give you 100% UMS

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The AQA one gives a number, for example, I select the subject, and year and stuff, put in how many raw marks I got and it says how many UMS that would be.

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Original post by thatitootoo

How do you know the UMS? And aren't they normally in %? Unless youre talking about the raw marks...in which case your score of 39/40 would be quite neat! :tongue:

No my raw marks were pretty bad :wink:

39/40 UMS

WJEC have a converter.

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MangoFreak

Original post by thatitootoo

I believe Constantmeowage gave a shout out to Polymath and the absolutely fabulous Octopus_Garden earlier on in the thread, when we were discussing my potential misuse of the word 'das' :tongue:

I thought that's what Ronove was talking about :tongue:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

No my raw marks were pretty bad :wink:

39/40 UMS

WJEC have a converter.

Shhhh 97.5% UMS is prutty damn good!

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Original post by MangoFreak

I thought that's what Ronove was talking about :tongue:

Yeah, I just thought I'd give you some context :wink:

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Ronove

Original post by thatitootoo

Yeah but that's still % right
for instance 39/40 raw marks would give you 100% UMS

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UMS for a given raw mark differs from exam to exam/year to year (not sure if you realise this, it's not clear from what you said).

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Original post by thatitootoo

Shhhh 97.5% UMS is prutty damn good!

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Raw marks weren't great though, for example

Exam A: 36/40 = 40/40 UMS
Exam B: 39/40 = 40/40 UMS

Original post by Ronove

UMS for a given raw mark differs from exam to exam/year to year (not sure if you realise this, it's not clear from what you said).

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Original post by Ronove

UMS for a given raw mark differs from exam to exam/year to year (not sure if you realise this, it's not clear from what you said).

I sure do!
I've been in a dark room, analysing the grade boundaries and result statistics of various UK exam boards for yearssss! :yep:

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username1150116

Original post by Bambirina

我现在在北京（清华大学）学习汉语：）你呢？

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我住在在苏格兰，去年开始学习汉语。我的中文不太好。。。

我今年要去格拉斯哥大学，学习工程。

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AquisM

Original post by constantmeowage

AHH! I see, you knock off the -r! I didn't know that, obrigado! :biggrin:

ignore me :P

Oh lol. That's what Wiki tells me. :biggrin:

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Octopus_Garden

Original post by thatitootoo

I believe Constantmeowage gave a shout out to Polymath and the absolutely fabulous Octopus_Garden earlier on in the thread, when we were discussing my potential misuse of the word 'das' :tongue:

If I'd been online properly, I'd have told you to try Ronove. :tongue:

I have no idea how to answer the linguistic problem earlier in the thread!

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constantmeowage

Original post by Octopus_Garden

If I'd been online properly, I'd have told you to try Ronove. :tongue:

I have no idea how to answer the linguistic problem earlier in the thread!

Which problem? The etwas problem?

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Octopus_Garden

Anything/everything posed by thatittootoo in the last 24 hours!

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constantmeowage

Question: since you're all wannabe polyglots, how much dabbling do you allow yourself? :P If you included dabbled languages, how many languages would you now be able to speak? XD

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Original post by constantmeowage

What do you mean? :tongue:

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I think, if I wasn't in school and just learning languages... I'd be able to speak quite a few languages fluently... (grammatically though, not idiomatic)

Considering my age, I'm happy with where I am though... But I should be learning quicker because age kills us :mmm:

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Ronove

Original post by constantmeowage

Question: since you're all wannabe polyglots, how much dabbling do you allow yourself? :P If you included dabbled languages, how many languages would you now be able to speak? XD

You mean if we were now magically relatively fluent in everything we'd dabbled in? For me that would include: French, German, Spanish, Esperanto, Catalan, Danish, Japanese, British Sign Language. I think that's it - though can't be sure at this particular moment!

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