Back English Vocabulary?

By jack
@BillCole (128)
May 9, 2017 11:15pm CST
How many words do you have in English to say what you want to say
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
10 May 17
You can try reading books that you enjoy...dont go in for learning consciously just read the type of books you like.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 May 17
I've never counted but probably somewhere around 20,000 words which I could use with confidence. In fact, though, I could generally get by with between 3,000 and 5,000 words and I do try to limit my vocabulary here, especially when writing for people whose main language is not English.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
10 May 17
I have never counted how many words I know in the English language, but I do know that it is a lot. The only way to learn more is to read more and more and look for the definition of the words that you do not understand. No other way,