Why We Need A Lot Of Words

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 Today I wanna talk about words, the importance of words, and how many words we need, It's a subject that comes  out regularly . I came across a very interesting article, and in fact, I'm gonna write a blog post about it. .....next week ...writing it. We need lots of words. Essentially in order to learn a language, beyond this sort of very superficial social level, we need a large vocabulary. The best way to aquire that vocabulary in my opinion is through a lot of reading, and reading things that are meaningful, and in fact historically, that's how people learn languages and, when we discover ..we star rading things that  are interesting to us, not just text book material. In facft you need a lot of words, and the vast majority of  language courses don't enable the learner to aquire suffcient vocabulary to go out to read a book. and I belive that in any of the languages that I have learned, I wanna get to .. I can read books of interesting to me:history, litterature, whatever might be, that I can without difficulty and enjoy *..read things that interesting to me*. To do that you need a lot of words, and there is this myth about that if you have a thousand words you can cover just* any context in the language. It's simply not truth, apparantly according to research, one hundred  to* fifthy words  will probably cover in most languages, fifthy percent, of the words in any given context. However, once you get beyond that the words are less and less frequent *..less and less frequent words appear very much less frequently    * the example is given in james Joyces l* for example has a total words *fifhty thousand, but uses thirty thousand diffrent words so you will in order to understand every word in Ulyses, You have to know twentty thousand words