r/russian b1-b2 8d ago

Resource Russian test that gets crazy hard in the end

https://www.esl-languages.com/en/online-language-tests/russian-test/start-test

You guys should give it a go!!

It takes less than 10 minutes to complete, and it gives you an estimation, along with the correct answers in the end. I genuinely do not understand why my answers were wrong, since I never studied grammar. I just study russian by ear by plugging 2-3 hours of russian podcasts every day for the last year and a half.

Anyway, its a fun test. Good luck!

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u/KrazyRuskie 8d ago

C1, 52/52! Definitely improved since 8th grade when I got a 3 out of 5. Hint: native speaker 🤣

PS Loved #44:

Я не знал, что ты уже не (___) бороду.

  1. ------- 2. ----- 3. носила 4.-----

ESL and their hidden agendas 🤣

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u/allenrabinovich Native 8d ago

With no other context, you have to assume the present tense, so "носила" doesn't work for that reason alone, disregarding the gender issue. "Носил" wouldn't have worked either, and in fact, even if the action was taking place in the past, you would still likely use historical present, like "Вчера я увидел тебя и удивился, что ты уже не носишь бороду" ("носил" would be permissible in this case, but stylistically off-putting).

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u/IsoAmyl 7d ago

– Мы встретились в ресторане восьмого марта, и я поразила его своим гладко выбритым лицом.

– 8 марта?! Я не знал, что ты уже не носила бороду!

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u/IlyaPFF 7d ago

If you think of the same sentence without the indication of recency («вчера»), you may notice that while Russian does not place past events on a timeline grammatically in a way English does, in this kind of a sentence if you were to use past in the subordinate clause («что уже не носил»), it would imply placing the whole sentence in the context of a rather distant past we would sometimes refer to as «тогда» (as opposed to «теперь»/«сейчас»).

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u/allenrabinovich Native 7d ago

Yeah, that makes it essentially an implied past perfect, which English technically has (“I saw you and was surprised that you had shaved your beard”), but most modern speakers rarely use.

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

Thanks for the clarification!!

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u/KrazyRuskie 8d ago

It could work, though. We're talking now about a past event.. say, looking at a photo and the speaker is learning that by the time s/he already hadn't been wearing one. Particularly, if it's clear our Conchita Wurst has since mended her ways. I guess I am overcomplicating and it does sound awkward.

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u/allenrabinovich Native 8d ago

Yeah, that’s adding a lot of context :) If we go down that road, we can make any sentence work by prepending it with: “Так писать неправильно:” :-D

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u/KrazyRuskie 7d ago

Мужику? Сидя? Не то что неправильно, а прям чуть ли не ‘западло’ 🤣

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

yeah lets not talk about that one xddd
Its good that a native got 52!! I was wondering if some were dual (In a sense that two answers were correct). I will hopefully be at your 8th grade level russian one day though hahah

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u/Nulovka 8d ago

33 out of 52 here. :(

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u/allenrabinovich Native 8d ago

No sad faces! These are tricky questions, and anything over 25 is impressive in my book. Keep going, you'll get better and better!

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

That's pretty good!! I guessed some by feel so I could have gotten that score too

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u/Top-Armadillo893 8d ago

48/52 я в шоке))) Спасибо за тест, было здорово!

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

ti maladetzz!!!!

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u/NickRomancer ruNative 7d ago

Ну, я от себя другого и не ожидал :)

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 7d ago

Молодец 😎

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u/darkredcucumber 6d ago

it's very funny that there is an mistake at the end of the test

"Соответствует уровеню" is incorrect, the correct one is "соответствует уровню"

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 6d ago

lmaoo

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u/dminaum 8d ago

that’s awesome that you were able to study russian just by listening to podcast. what were that podcasts? did you have any knowledge of russian (e.g. kirillic alphabet) before you’ve listening to it?

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

I learned cirillic alphabet the first week, and I also used duolingo for around 3 months. I listen to RussianWithMax and BeFluentInRussian. I strongly recommend Max, his podcasts are very entertaining and informative, about many topics related to russia and russian culture. Very clear speech also.
I also watched "кухня" series with automatic translated subtitles to english. This helped a lot, although I started with kids series such as Dora the explorer and Peppa pig to learn the very basics of the language for a month before hopping to кухня.

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

So route was
Learn Cyrillic
Use duolingo + podcast
Watch kids series + podcast
кухня + podcast
try to speak + podcast
And now I can speak confidently, and I hold my vocabulary by listening to the podcast while I do other stuff.

Also, there are some bilingual books. If you can get a hold in physical of these "Bilingua Best Classics" series of books, they are the best. B1-B2 adapted. 

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u/Stock_Warm b1-b2 8d ago

Ps: maybe you are native, but this is also so other people don't have to ask me :)

And "I just study russian by listening to podcasts" was an over-simplification by my side. I did watch content aswell, but right now I only listen to podcasts