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GlennR Mar 2021 11:12am, 2 Mar 2021 56,107 posts	GlennR I destroy those parrots with fire.
Johnny Blaze Mar 2021 11:22am, 2 Mar 2021 24,840 posts	Johnny Blaze I'm on day 15 of my Italian course and it is going pretty well. Well enough to stump up 85 dollars for a year's subs. I am on level 5, with about another 65 to go. I asked Google and she said a person needs about 10,000 words to be fluent in a language. I must have about 100. Long way to go yet... Once I finish this I am going to give Spanish a go and then revisit my French. It will keep me busy.
Johnny Blaze Mar 2021 11:23am, 2 Mar 2021 24,841 posts	Johnny Blaze The elephants drink water, btw.
GlennR Mar 2021 6:13pm, 2 Mar 2021 56,109 posts	GlennR 10,000 words is more than most people's functional vocabulary. You should be able to manage perfectly well with 2,000 unless you're doing something very specialised.
GlennR Mar 2021 6:17pm, 2 Mar 2021 56,110 posts	GlennR I've just checked my stats, which I didn't know existed. 3,714 words of Spanish. 4,096 of Russian
Johnny Blaze Mar 2021 8:25pm, 2 Mar 2021 24,847 posts	Johnny Blaze I thought it was a lot! 'm not looking for fluency - just looking to be able to show I am making an effort when abroad.
ChrisHB Mar 2021 9:07pm, 2 Mar 2021 20,664 posts	ChrisHB I have always believed 600 words to be an absolute minimum. DL says I have 1800 in Italian and if I could recall them all rapidly, conjugating them and/or making them agree and/or joining them correctly I think I'd be pretty good.
GregP Mar 2021 9:35am, 3 Mar 2021 125,582 posts	GregP The sheep were playing violins in the lake
Cerrertonia Mar 2021 10:47am, 3 Mar 2021 13,794 posts	Cerrertonia Interesting - hadn't noticed the words thing before. It gives me 2711 words in Welsh and 4582 in Spanish. I think this is probably a result of the course size - there are far more lessons in the Spanish course (the Welsh course is much better quality IMO though). Welsh core vocab is mostly unguessable for a native English speaker - you either know it or you don't. Spanish has thousands of words which have some English cognate, so there's more scope for reading a new word and knowing what it probably means.
GregP Mar 2021 10:51am, 3 Mar 2021 125,588 posts	GregP I think I read somewhere that a good third of Spanish words are 'guessable' to an English speaker. I've no clue what the Spanish is for, say, defenestration - but defenestración would be a solid first guess.