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Sjôk'Dīze :macos:

@Gargron o think ir might depend on the language in which those words are. For example, learning words in Esperanto is gonna be way faster than most languages, but learning a word from an logogramic language (ie. Chinese) will probably be slower.

Also, it depends on the language you already know and use…

But now that I think about it I guess you’re referring to English, bein a native English speaker 😅

6 Sep 2021 at 16:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.io
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Eugen Rochko

@revisaALT I'm not a native English speaker! And I've started learning Spanish now

6 Sep 2021 at 16:59 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
Sjôk'Dīze :macos:

@Gargron my bad. Sorry 😖
However…I made a quick research and found about active and passive vocabulary. The first ones are used very frequently, and the later are those that were learned but are barely used…so I assume you may take longer to remember what that fancy word you found on an article meant, for example.

Susie Dent says that an adult English speaker has an average of 20.000 words in their passive vocabulary.

Around 1,000 words represent the 89% we use for writing

@Gargron my bad. Sorry 😖
However…I made a quick research and found about active and passive vocabulary. The first ones are used very frequently, and the later are those that were learned but are barely used…so I assume you may take longer to remember what that fancy word you found on an article meant, for example.

6 Sep 2021 at 17:09 | Reply | Open on mstdn.io
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