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| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5007 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 1 of 38 05 September 2011 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just thought I'd let those who don't subscribe to his channel know that the Professor has posted a video on extensive reading and vocabulary range. He doesn't go into polyliteracy proper, but he talks about how many words you need to know in order to read a serious book, the fact that most people don't have enough, and how they can go about building that range of vocabulary. Well worth watching!
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| sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4651 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian | Message 2 of 38 07 September 2011 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very well worth watching.
Vocabulary building is a major problem in any language. And the (research finding) threshold for reading is high: 98%. Getting to 98% of an online newspaper is a feat. What frustrates me is that the sort of graded readers that can help get you there aren't very easy to track down (provided they even exist). I loathe interrupting my reading to grab a dictionary—but sometimes it is critical. A kludge I can live with is text on one side and low-frequency glossary on the facing page, but even that needs careful use. Anyway, I digress. The video is worth watching. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6160 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 38 08 September 2011 at 9:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Did anyone try the vocabulary test? My estimate was 15,700 word families, though the test says it's only accurate up to 14,000 word families.
I think it was somewhat biased like the Prof says. There were a number of words that I'm sure are Anglo centric. Edited by newyorkeric on 08 September 2011 at 9:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6564 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 38 08 September 2011 at 10:50am | IP Logged | ||
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It told me 17,900.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6220 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 38 08 September 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||
I tried it. I forget my exact score, but it was a bit over 25 thousand. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jean-luc Senior Member France Joined 4741 days ago 100 posts - 150 votes Speaks: French* Studies: German | Message 6 of 38 08 September 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Around 11.000 but there was too many french cognates to not be suspicious.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6251 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 7 of 38 08 September 2011 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got 18,500.
Here's the link, for those who don't want to search for it: http://my.vocabularysize.com 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6484 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 38 08 September 2011 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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