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Mike Coon[_2_]

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On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 3:41:41 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:05:33 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

Of the first number, the average American native English speaker has a working
vocabulary of about 5,000 words speaking, and about twice that written.

The saddest part, and I did not go too deeply into it, is that non-American native English speakers tend to have a spoken vocabulary of approximately 12,000 words and a written vocabulary of approximately 42,000 words.

ESL speakers tend to learn 2.5 words per day, for approximately five years after starting to learn English. And they 'start' with roughly 1,000 words. Meaning that they are as good or better (discounting an accent) than the average American in that five years.

Education in this country is abysmal at the elementary and high-school level. And we are paying the price.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

I tried that "vocab" test site you cited. Deeply boring. Just a test of
idiomatic simple English (at least for the first 50% - as far as I could
be bothered to try!). Certainly not polysyllabic...

Mike.