How Much Can You Say With 137 Words? (2024)

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Is 5000 words enough to speak a language? ›

Some linguists believe that 800 words are enough to hold a basic conversation. However, your vocabulary should be over 8,000 words if you want to speak a language as well as a native speaker.

Created in 2001 by the Canadian linguist Sonja Lang, Toki Pona is a minimalist constructed language.

Toki Pona. The longest word in Toki Pona is kijetesantakalu (15 letters), which was proposed in 2009 as an April Fools' joke by the language's creator Sonja Lang as a word for any animal of the Procyonidae family, which includes raccoons and related species.

An advanced speaker of a language is also categorized as fluent. Fluency means you've reached 10,000+ words and have reached the highest level of mastering a language without being a native speaker.

In most cases, you need to know 2000-3000 words to reach a conversational level. To become proficient, you should master 5000 words or more. Most importantly, don't focus only on the number of words you have to know.

500 to 800 words for a beginner level; about 1,500 words for an intermediate level; 3,000 words to be fluent in a language; and nearly 8,000 words to be bilingual.

Most adult native test-takers have a vocabulary range of about 20,000-35,000 words. Adult native test-takers learn almost 1 new word a day until middle age. Vocabulary growth stops at middle age.

Thuch Salik (right), his mother, and younger brother Tithya, who speaks 12 languages – nearly as many as his brother – in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. His younger brother Thuch Tithya, 11, has followed in Salik's footsteps, picking up the basics of 12 languages with Salik's help.

What language is almost forgotten? ›

Aramaic is a Semitic language, related both to Hebrew and Arabic. Speakers of Aramaic are Middle Eastern Christians, Jewish communities, and Mandeans. Unfortunately, like many of the 7000 languages currently spoken across the globe, Aramaic is expected to die out by the end of the century.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. In most English dictionaries, the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest one you are going to find at a whopping 45 letters long.

1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters) A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.

Toki Pona is an isolating language with only 14 phonemes and an underlying feature of minimalism.

5000 words allow you to understand about 98% of most ordinary texts (Nation (1990) and Laufer (1997)). Such a vocabulary size also warrants accurate contextual guessing (Coady et al., 1993; Hirsh & Nation, 1992; Laufer, 1997). It means that you can function surrounded by this language without bigger problems.

Vocabulary: At the B2 level, you know around 3,000 words. At the C1 level, you know around 5,000 words.

The more words you know, the better. In fact, it's estimated that you need to know around 5,000 words to be fluent in French, although native speakers will often know up to 30,000! That's a lot of words, making vocabulary learning a bit of a numbers game.

How minutes is 5,000 words? 5,000 words is 33.33 minutes of speaking time.