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| yamaneko721 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 7008 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 39 27 September 2005 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
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I read many posts with people saying how many words they know in the language they are learning, and how many words are required for fluency in a language.
How do you come up with this number? My french is improving, but there's still many words I don't understand while reading a newpaper. On the other hand, I can express myself very well, and I usually don't have to stop and search for a word while speaking. Edited by yamaneko721 on 27 September 2005 at 9:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| morprussell Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7165 days ago 272 posts - 285 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 2 of 39 27 September 2005 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
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I once saw a suggestion that sounded good on this forum, but I can't find it no matter what I search for. So, I'll do my best to remember what was said.
1. Open a page of your dictionary at random and count the number of words that you know and could use in a conversation. 2. Repeat this for a total of ten times, then add up the total number of words and divide by 10 to get an average. 3. Multiply the average by the number of pages in your dictionary (Just the pages that list words in your target language) 4. Add 10% to each end of the number to get an estimated range of how many words you know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yamaneko721 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 7008 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 3 of 39 28 September 2005 at 10:16am | IP Logged |
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Thank you! According to this method, I know about 3200 french words!
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7378 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 39 30 September 2005 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
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Here is a program to estimate how many words you know in English.
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| Bart Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 7162 days ago 155 posts - 159 votes Speaks: Dutch*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish | Message 5 of 39 30 September 2005 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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Estimated vocabulary size: 11835
That's more than I thought but it could be true... (only did one of the demo tests though) Edited by Bart on 30 September 2005 at 2:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7320 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 39 30 September 2005 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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I did for fun as well: 11045!
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| morprussell Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7165 days ago 272 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 7 of 39 30 September 2005 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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Hum... My estimated English vocabulary was 11,000 or 13,000 (I can't remember for sure) on the wordsandtools.com website. When I tried it with the method I mentioned earlier in this thread my estimated vocabulary was 27,816! Quite a difference. I guess the only way to know for sure is to count one at a time.
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| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7106 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 8 of 39 01 October 2005 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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13350 in English, cool test. Even just a portion of that is still a lot of words.
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