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That is interesting. What about languages other than English? Any idea about the avg. word count needed to learn them? (Used on TV does seem like a good benchma
by rewrew 11y ago
That is interesting. What about languages other than English? Any idea about the avg. word count needed to learn them? (Used on TV does seem like a good benchmark for "learned). Or is it roughly the same for every language, do you think?
- WalterBright 11y agoI have no data, but I suspect it is similar.
- bane 11y ago"being able to read a newspaper" is a typical goal for pre-fluency language acquisition. In most languages I'm aware of the number of words required to do that is something around 1500-3000.
- WalterBright 11y agoYes. But I read somewhere that a newspaper vocabulary is targeted at somewhere around a 5th grade reading level.