increasing of vocabulary
Hello! I need help ! I have been learning English pretty long, but i don't understand how to make my skills more advanced. How do you increase your vocabulary if you are middle or upper middle level ? I just think reading of book is great idea, but it's really taking a lot time. When you only start learning of any language you enhance your vocabulary very fast but after the progress reduce and finally it's stopping( to be honest progress increase but really slowly).
How many words do you need to know that you will confident in your vocabulary?
I think the question is addressed to teachers or people who had already learnt English.

PS: I have passed a test on this site( testyourvocab.com), my score is about 7 000. I think it's not true, I guess my really score is lower than that one, so I have doubts.

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increasing of vocabulary
Hello! I need help ! I have been learning English pretty long, but i don't understand how to make my skills more advanced. How do you increase your vocabulary if you are middle or upper middle level ? I just think reading of book is great idea, but it's really  taking a lot time. When you only start learning of any language  you enhance your vocabulary very fast but after  the progress reduce and finally it's stopping( to be honest progress increase but really slowly). 
How many words do you need to know that you will confident in your vocabulary? 
I think the question is addressed to teachers or people who had already learnt English.

PS: I have passed a test on this site( testyourvocab.com), my score is about 7 000. I think it's not true,  I guess  my really score is  lower than that one, so I have doubts.

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Study vocab books that high schoolers use. You could also get an SAT study guide for vocab.

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buy three dictionaries
5, 000 words
10, 000 words
20, 000 words
and just move from one to another

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When I was at 2000 words (in Japanese) I needed one year to learn another 2000 and double my vocabulary. But now being at 8000 words it takes 4 years to learn another 8000 and double my vocab. So it seems to get slower even if the pace stays the same.

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