How to Read One Million Words per Year in your Target Language

Steve considers 1,000,000 words per year in his target language to be a worthy goal. Extensive reading not only expands your vocabulary, but contributes to your overall grasp of the language. From sentence structure to cultural knowledge, find out how you can read one million words in your target language this year.

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I try to read 3,000 words a day in Greek and at minimum enough to keep a streak through reading or new words.
I notice improvements every 100,000 in the sense of being able to understand something I hadn’t been able to.
I’m about 2.7m words or 1060 days in.
I’m reading the Hunger Games. Mostly I read interesting things but they show 22% new words and even that is very generous.
I’m hoping that in about a year or 4m words that I’ll feel much more confident. Then or at least in the future I’ll do more grammar and output. This will be after having established a solid base of vocabulary and understanding. I find it a hard language and this wasn’t possible before.
If Lingq is talking about this level of reading, please make
next sentence + audio + translation a single button and have a simple shortcut in the app (Alt +…) . It’s complicated to make this happen at present.

The article seems so assume that the readers is about C1 and can read without digital tools. Strange marketing for Lingq.
I’m saying that lingq helps me significantly when I’m well below being able to read without it. I read with translations and words steadily become more familiar. I choose high interest rather than high unaided comprehension.

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PS, it shows a graph. Where are they?