[REQUEST] change the known word counts for Afrikaans to align with the Germanic languages

[Dominic_Olofsson-Tuisku]

Right now Afrikaans language levels, i.e. Beginner 1-2, Intermediate 1-2, and Advanced 1-2 are the same as French, a Romance language with grammatical gender, agreement, different declinations for plural, singular, third person etc.


As one can see, the total required for Intermediate 1 is 8160. However, this makes little sense since Afrikaans has no grammatical gender and declines much more rarely than French. I would like to request that Afrikaans be reduced to line up with either English or Dutch in known word count.

I have imported about 50 books so far, and bar a few bugs in one of the books I imported where the words got cut off (and that inflated my LingQs), I am already at a place where most lessons are about 20-30% new words. It’s a very small nitpick, but I believe it’s also a very small fix to make.

I feel like English makes the most sense since Afrikaans has about as few tenses as English, but really this must not be an exact science. It is incredibly awkward however to place Afrikaans which is much simpler than Dutch above it.

[B.Oliver]

Looks like you have a point.

Afrikaans has a course with all the 60 Mini Stories which according to LingQ contain 1166 unique words. This is somewhat below English (1295) and even further below Dutch (1425).

Based on these numbers, thresholds below the English ones might be justified. For practical purposes however, ist appears reasonable to simply put Afrikaans in the same category with English which is currently at the low end of the known word hurdles.

[Swidilator]

As a South African that knows a bit about Afrikaans, it is basically easy Dutch. Therefore it really should not require more words than Dutch. After studying it in school I can say for sure that there is no gender, and I really don’t remember any real declensions.

I would say it’s much easier than English to learn and the word count required would probably be similar.