There are particular kinds of words you should learn before others to get yourself closer to fluency faster. There’s no magic number of words that you can learn to suddenly unlock all a language’s mysteries, but there most certainly are ways to think about the numbers of words that add up to fluency.įor instance, there are ranges of vocabulary that correspond roughly to different levels of fluency. However, while the number of licks in a Tootsie Pop remains a mystery to this day, there are a few different useful ways of sussing out how many words you need to reach arbitrary labels like being “conversational” or “fluent” in a foreign language, or to truly “speak” the language. Unlike Tootsie Pops, languages are complex living things, frustratingly resistant to black-and-white measurements of how many words or how many licks it takes to cross the finish line and reach your goal. Just like Tootsie Pops, languages are tasty treats that we rarely notice ourselves getting closer to the “center” of until we’re chewing on the chocolaty goodness of free-flowing conversation and wondering how many steps it took us to get there. How many words does it take to get to the center of a delicious foreign language?
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