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| nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5409 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes  | Message 17 of 19 22 February 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
I have myself tried a wordflist. I heard an average English native speaker has 60000 words of vocabulary. Then, I thought, first, list up top 100 words, and for each word in the top 100 list I would find 100 related words, then I had 10000 words. For each of 10000 words I made a box and put 6 related words in it, then my vocabulary would be of 60000 words, my English would be of native like fluency! But, I gave up this way.
This is the hard part. I did this by looking thorough a wordlist (which was not yet semanticaly ordered), and arranging it by my intuition on "similarities of words" and sometime with help of an online dictionary. This was realy a hard brain work! I finaly gave up this. Too hard to make it out. The easiest way would be to download "visual thesaurus" from thesaurus.com. Here is a sample. http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/go 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5767 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 18 of 19 22 February 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wait, N, the visual thesaurus is not what I need: that is the practical link, not a semantic link. It is useful as such, for particular purposes, but not for mine (I am a difficult kind of guy !). But thanks...
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 19 of 19 23 February 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Nescafe, many of those words might be passive, so you don't necessarily have to actively know them because a) you might recognize them in from another language, b) you might be able to figure them out by context and c) they might be abstract enough that it's not necessary to know them and still be proficient in a language.
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