How many words do we have to know in order to speak in a basic way another language ?
I don't remember well where I heard about that or read about that, so I was looking for it online and I found different amount and perspectives.
That depends on the level that we want to achieve.
For example for a native speaker (English) They might know 15,000 to 20,000 word (quoting "BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44569277"), So if we want to speak comfortable with a native speaker we have to know those bunch of words?.
So I tried writing down how many words I know in my first language but I couldn't do it, because I couldn't remember all word that I have used in whole my life.
Some advice that I have found, Says, it is not necessary to learn a large number of words, but it is important for us to learn the most common words, that a native speaker use or that we use in our daily conversation
I found in the same article, if we know or learn from 800 to 1000 words (lemmas) which appear frequently in a language, we will be able to understand (70 - 80)%,
I think is a good percent for me, but it is not enough if we want to become a fluent speaker. I think so.
This topic sounded interesting for me, so I wanted to write it.
Sorry for my mistakes.
Greetings, Have a wonderful day.
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How many words do we have to know in order to speak in a basic functional way another language ?
I don't remember well where I heard about it or read about it, so I was looking for it online and I found different many perspectives.It depends on the level that we want to achieve.
For example for a native speaker (English) They might know 15,000 to 20,000 word (quoting "BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44569277"), So if we want to speak comfortably with a native speaker do we have to know that many words?.
So I tried writing down how many words I know in my first language but I couldn't do it, because I couldn't remember all words that I have used in whole my life.
Some advice that I have found, Says, it is not necessary to learn a large number of words, but it is important for us to learn the most common words, that a native speaker would use or that we use in our daily conversation
I found in the same article, if we know or learn from 800 to 1000 words (lemmas) which appear frequently in a language, we will be able to understand (70 - 80)%,
I think that is a good percentage for me, but it is not enough if we want to become a fluent speaker. I think so.
This topic sounded interesting for me, so I wanted to write about it.
Sorry for my mistakes.
Greetings, Have a wonderful day.
Well done, great topic!!!!!!
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pronunciation, it is a interesting topic.
it is important for learners to have a good pronunciation for making themselves understandable.
Now I wonder how many sounds are there on English? :)
Thank you so much for your interesting comment.
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The alphabet letter has 26 letters. Mix them correctly and you will be able to spell, read and say the more than 40 different sounds of English. Because you want to learn In a timely manner, you won't see every English letter in sound combination, but I'll show you some words that break the rules and you'll be learning more than enough to teach yourself English.
Great pronunciation begins with mastering the alphabet. Letter sounds change, but letter names do not. Do you want know why some letters make different sounds? For example "On" becomes "one". "One" becomes "phone." And why do different letters make the same sounds? "Newt" and "suit" both share the same "oo" sound.
Learn the alphabet, short vowels and consonants sounds, and begin developing great pronunciation.
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