To work out how many words you need to know to be able to speak a second language we decided to look into how many words we know in our first language, in our case English.

Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium wanted to study both vocabulary size and growth over time. After television coverage their Dutch test went viral.

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How many words do most adults know? Researchers devised an online test to determine the size of people's vocabularies By Aristos Georgiou Published 16 August 2016, 7:05 PM BST How many words do ...

To work out how many words you need to know to be able to speak a second language we decided to look into how many words we know in our first language, in our case English.