How many LingQs do I need to create to become fluent in English?
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It’s a not very precise questions. You can be fluent in one domain or in several.
That Ukrainian women became a psychologist and fluent in Dutch. But she described that she is most fluent about psychologie.
You can become fluent in one domain or several domains.
One way to estimate you for you is to a lesson with everything you want to read.
So you have your target. Lingq will indicate how many words you need to learn.
That would be one estimation method.
Another method is to an estimation from a huge course:
I can estimate if I want all blue words to deseapear, I need at least to increase my vocabulary by 137%. I’m currently at 16 800 words. So when I will have around 40 000 words known I may know most of the words which are missing.
In english, I have around 12000 known words. Almost all words are known when I listen to someting about langague learning.
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This is a hard question because people use LingQ differently.
Some people mark everything as known, even if it’s an improperly parsed phrase or a repeated thing like “two, three, four, second, third, fourth, etc.” and in chinese “one X”, “two X”, “three X”, and “X” alone, where X is any of hundreds of measure words. This results in very high known word counts.
Others are more strict about it and their counts are much lower.
From what I’ve read, once you know the most common 3000 or so words, you can participate in most general daily conversations and pretty easily move through day-to-day life. Anything deeper will require domain-specific vocabulary. How long this takes depends on your target language and your native language, and how much time/effort you put in.
For example, native English speakers can probably get there in Spanish in a year if they work hard at it. I spent a day in Spain recently and was astonished how much Spanish an American just kind of knows with no effort. On the other hand, for a native English speaker Japanese, Chinese, etc. can take 2 or more years to get comfortable.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for your reply!
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Thank you so much! Have a great day!
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