Interesting breakdown of word usage on this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20111226085859/http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oec-facts-about-the-language
Vocabulary size (no. lemmas) % of content in OEC Example lemmas 10 25% the, of, and, to, that, have 100 50% from, because, go, me, our, well, way 1,000 75% girl, win, decide, huge, difficult, series 7,000 90% tackle, peak, crude, purely, dude, modest 50,000 95% saboteur, autocracy, calyx, conformist >1,000,000 99% laggardly, endobenthic, pomological
I expect most languages to be around the same.
At 20 new words per day one can get to 7,000 or 90% of what is used in less than one year. Add another year for time spent on grammar.
A native speaker speakes 20,000 words and has a passive vocabulary of 40,000 by comparison, so that would put them at around 94% understanding. So a 4% difference or 1/25th of what comes up.
Anyone have a vocabulary in their target language around 7,000? Do you feel pretty good most of the time or do you still feel limited?
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