Timeline for How many German words and phrases should I know to read and understand German newspapers?
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | chirlu | Words appear in vastly different frequencies. Your list of 23500 words almost surely contains a number of words that you happened to come across, but will not encounter again for the next year of reading newspaper articles. You could drop them from your list without losing coverage. On the other hand, you may have missed a few more common words. Both would lead to an overestimation of the number of words required. Therefore, I don’t believe in your number of 23500. – Note that proper research, such as the one cited by Ralph M. Rickenbach in his answer, considers the N most common words. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 9:18 | history | answered | Eugene Str. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |