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Notably, 3000 is a good chunk of what's (afaik) considered to be the average everyday-use dictionary: somewhere from 10000 to 20000 words. (Though again I'm un
by aasasd 8y ago
Notably, 3000 is a good chunk of what's (afaik) considered to be the average everyday-use dictionary: somewhere from 10000 to 20000 words.
(Though again I'm unsure if the endless English phrasal verbs are counted as distinct in these estimates, not doing which would probably be cheating.)
- mikekchar 8y agoGenerally speaking, in language acquisition papers anyway, vocabulary size is done a "word families" rather than words. So "police" and "police station" are counted as a single "word" as long as you also have "station" in the list. Phrasal verbs ("look up to" vs "look in to" for example) are counted separately if I'm not mistake because while the root of the word is the same, it's not the same "word family".
- therealdrag0 8y agoI remember 3000 being the target vocabulary when I was studying French. I forget where I got that number though. Might have just been the number of flash cards in the CleverDeck app shrug.