| ▲ | WalterBright 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I read years ago that: 1. TV vocabulary is 2,000 words 2. High school vocabulary is 10,000 words 3. College vocabulary is 30,000 words 4. English language has 1,000,000 words This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jonahx 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words! Depends what you mean by "proficient". I currently know ~6k Spanish words and would hesitate to self-apply that word. Others might, but damn languages are hard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | theli0nheart 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Being proficient in a language is really less about memorizing words than it is pronunciation and grammar. Memorization itself is pretty easy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Guestmodinfo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Please someone tell me where to get those 1 million words in decreasing order of difficulty or ascending order of usage along with their meanings and insinuations | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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