Recent Updates to Known Word Thresholds

Since LingQ has not provided their updated table for Known Word Thresholds yet, I have created the following (rough) user-estimate - also called ‘guesswork’ for some languages:

Please note, that these were created somewhat ‘quick & dirty’ (based on rather few data points and extrapolated in rather simple ways).

I have taken into account the unique words of the LingQ Mini Stories and for some languages also looked at ‘Who is She’ and ‘Eating Out’.
Baring in mind that these kind of stories are at the beginner level, a ‘tail adjustment’ for higher levels might seem useful. However, I don’t have any data on this and decided to keep it simple.

Green Figures: Taken out of LingQ - these should be accurate
Black Figures: Rough estimate
Grey Figures: Very rough estimate

I suppose we could gather a much more accourate table by using the wisdom/comments of LingQ users. So feel free to comment, especially if some figures should be far off.

Hopefully LingQ will update their official table soon - which should make all speculations obsolete.

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