I've re-read your comment multiple times and still don't quite get it. If English is your native language, why did you spend 1800 hours learning English vocabul

I've re-read your comment multiple times and still don't quite get it. If English is your native language, why did you spend 1800 hours learning English vocabulary when you were in high school? Did you feel that your native level was not sufficient, or were you just interested in advanced English as an academic interest? As a native English speaker, I'm not sure how many English words I know, nor how I would even start counting! However, I am currently learning German, and seem to have found a comfortable pace of learning about twenty words each day, studying for half an hour each day. This doesn't include general exposure to the words through other German practice. If it is possible to keep that up long-term, that means that 6000 German words would take just under a year for me to learn in the ideal case (probably a bit longer, as so-called 'strong' words have multiple irregular forms that are effectively different words).