I am going on my fourth language now and I've noticed that with all of them, once you know over a 1000 basic words you can usually converse at a basic level. Around 3000 and your at
a mid-high conversational level but still no where near fluent yet.
My estimation for near fluency would be at least 10,000 to 15,000 words.
What do you think?
2007-08-23 04:28:42 · 10 answers · asked by Johnny 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Thanks for all the replies so far, but as someone mentioned earlier.
Fluency doesn't really have an exact meaning
and everyone has a different opinion of what it means to be "Fluent". To make things simple just can just use your own idea.
Also, I was speaking of Passive vocab, not active. Meaning words people know and use on a regular weekly basis.
Not words you may hear every 6 months but can understand.
2007-08-26 00:55:54 · update #1
I dunno but you need to know at least present tense and perfect.
2007-08-24 04:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by faewhisper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The average teen uses about 500 different words per day. This means you can discuss your basic needs and ideas with this small number of words. Shakespeare is said to have used half a million different words in his work, at a time when medical and technological expressions didn't even exist. So, it would depend on what you consider "fluency." Everyone has a greater passive than active vocabulary, which means they understand words they hear or read, but couldn't use them properly in speech.
2007-08-23 20:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man, i really don't know, i'm brazilian and i can have a conversation in english, i don't think that i'm fluent, but i think i know enough to speak to anyone in english, i'm glad that you estimulate yourself to learn more language, the more you learn better you go on your bussines life.
D. Shadow
2007-08-23 11:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by Paul's Alter Ego 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need less words to be fluent ...
i do not know but 15000 seems so much to me ...
i don't even know if i have a 15000 words vocabulary in italian ( my own language ) !!!!
2007-08-30 19:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by hugsandeggs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tt depens on the envirement when you pay great hobit interesting for it,but is not an character recomend working...
2007-08-23 11:43:15 · answer #5 · answered by Maersk L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
between 2000 words to 4000 words
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
2007-08-27 05:39:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no se
I don´t know
Je ne sais pas
Ich weià nicht
2007-08-23 11:37:07 · answer #7 · answered by eldeseo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u can communicate well and understand well then u can speak it..........learning languages isnt memorizing its understanding the language ..............
2007-08-23 11:34:45 · answer #8 · answered by arc7499 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree
2007-08-23 11:33:45 · answer #9 · answered by B 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think you are right
2007-08-23 11:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋