Thank you for your reply. I hadn’t really thought about writing as a kind of replacement for speaking but I guess it’s the closest thing. It’s also one of the most taxing, second only to talking I guess, I’ll have to fight my laziness, haha.
FWIW, my word count doesn’t reflect how many words I “know.” I haven’t used lingq as extensively as I probably should, and I never mark as ‘known’ different conjugations, only the infintives, neither do I mark the nouns for verbs, plurals, words that are very similar to English (that we get for free) etc. I only mark the roots of words as known. If I used lingq more and was less pedantic about it I’d probably be over 10k “known” words. Having said that, I’m not sure what criteria other people have when marking known words.
Thanks again.