Test yourself in English with The New York Times

The New York Times shows a regular feature in their Learning Network specially thought out for English learners: Test Yourself in English, where readers are tested on their knowledge of English grammar, vocabulary and reading skills.

Every week two one-question tests are published, and the archive has run up around 300 tests so far.

Either if you are preparing for an English exam at an intermediate level or above or you want to practise just for fun, Test Yourself in English looks like a good place to do so.

Vocabulary test

Everybody will love My Vocabulary Size.

My Vocabulary Size is an online tool to measure up the size of your vocabulary. My Vocabulary Size has teamed up with researchers at Victoria University of Wellington to bring English learners a way to measure their word knowledge. 


Users can take the tests by using Paul Nation's Vocabulary Size Test. These are the test instructions we must bear in mind before we begin the test:


• There are 140 questions in this test.
• Look at the word and an example of the word in use.
• Choose the meaning that most closely matches the word.
• Try to answer all the questions, even though you are not certain of the answer.
• You can not go back and change your answer.
• You will not be penalised for giving incorrect answers.


A native speaker of English is said to know 20,000 word families, but according to Nation, 8,000-9,000 word families are enough for getting by in reading, and 6,000-7,000 for listening.