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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

How many words (HMW)?

Hi,

Could anyone point me to a source that lists how many words - on an average - a native speaker must know at various levels / classes in an English speaking society (The U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia) ? Here are the two categories:

1. Students: entering junior high, highschool, college at various levels (B.S. / M.S. / Ph. D)
2. Jobs: laborer, office clerk, engineer, medical doctor, lawyer, journalist.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Hoa Thai
  

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It's generally not the number of words you know but how well you use them (to express your thoughts clearly) that indicate your mastery level. Tests like the TOEFL and the IELTS rate your mastery of English for the academic and work related settings. Knowing all the words in the dictionary is useless if you can't create complete, coherent sentences.

— Arvsworld

  • It's generally not the number of words you know but how well you use them (to express your thoughts clearly) that indicate your mastery level.
  • Tests like the TOEFL and the IELTS rate your mastery of English for the academic and work related settings.
  • Knowing all the words in the dictionary is useless if you can't create complete, coherent sentences.
  • One good way to practice and improve your language skills is to try saying something in several different ways.
  • This kind of exercise forces you to keep adding new words to your vocabulary and to explore different sentence structures.
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It's generally not the number of words you know but how well you use them (to express your thoughts clearly) that indicate your mastery level.

Tests like the TOEFL and the IELTS rate your mastery of English for the academic and work related settings.

Knowing all the words in the dictionary is useless if you can't create complete, coherent sentences. One good way to practice and
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ArvsworldIt's generally not the number of words you know but how well you use them (to express your thoughts clearly) that indicate your mastery level. Tests like the TOEFL and the IELTS rate your mastery of English for the academic and work related settings. Knowing all the words in the dictionary is useless if you can't create complete, coherent sentences. One go
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