A lot of you have been asking about how you can find out how many words you know. I'll make a video on that soon! If you're new here, welcome! I've got something for you. It's my book - The 5-Step Plan for English Fluency - and it's free to download: www.tofluency.com/5-step-plan/ Let me know if you have any questions.
This is an interesting topic. When I statred out in Spanish I found the '3000 words' idea really motivated me to learn 10-20 words per day. That said, I find "confidence" can often largely depend on context too. When my Spanish was at around B2 a few years ago, I thought I was doing pretty well. Then one day, I was at my girlfriend's flat surrounded by her Spanish student friends who were having a heated debate about the country's current political situation. It took all of my efforts just to follow along. I wasn't able to take part in the discussion as I couldn't keep up with the pace. Two hours later I was absolutely exhausted, but you can bet my listening improved. So my advice is this: don't wait until you become 'confident'. We gain confidence by doing.
this channel is just amazing. The speaker is incredible. The guy speaks clearly and understandably. My problem in English is that I understand very poorly by ear and catch only the main idea of what was said and about 10%..20% of the details. But in this case, I understand about 70% of what was said thanks to the speaker's effort to speak clearly.
I don’t know exactly how many words I know, but I think over 8000 words. The difficulty is that some English words have many meanings in my own language German. I learn new words from books and articles. I learn daily for three hours a day and watch Netflix in English with subtitles, but I can’t understand all. I make progress every day and learn more words.
Basically, all my questions were answered in this video. Because of it, now, I know how to plan and move forward with learning. This video popped up in the right moment for me and I am definitely going to save it. Thank you so much!
I love the video, mainly because I was able to understand everything, that's difficult for me at the moment, now it's probably because your vocabulary is for beginners, but still I felt very happy that my english is giving results. And thank you for the tips!
You can do tests online that ask you about 70 words and then estimate the size of your vocabulary. I'm a native English speaker and I did two tests. I got 23,600 words and 36,000 words. The latter result represents about 60% of the total words in English. I got 25,000 in Spanish (I'm sure that this is an overestimate) and 4400 in French.
I am brazilian and I think it is quite relative. What is the use of knowing more than 3.000 words if one is not able to use them properly? Someone can know by heart more than 3.000 words but his shiness stop him to talk or he simply cant use the proper grammar. Learning a different language is an endless task!
I know thousand words in english but not enough i can not still understand english enough really need to know more than thousand words, really wanna understand english movies fluently and without any problem when i watch because wanna feel accomplish guy at least 4 year ago i hadnt even know 300 words really educated myself and i am proud of it. I love this language Greetings from istanbul center of the world
Good evening Sir..... thankyou very much for this valuable english lesson. The way you teaching is clearly.. freely...friendly...happily... i enjoy the lesson so much. So appreciate it. I love your british accent so much. By the way i am from indonesia.
I am turkısh and ı understood what you said of 90-95 percent,ı used to just memorize before but now ı got my leason,ı will learn new words in a sentences or ı will be creating new sentences by using the words that ı have learn recently
Intelligent video , I am from Egypt and this is first time for me to watch you but l internalize new concepts to develop my skills in English. Thank you for this video and continue👍👍👍💪💪💪🤟
My result was 8.670 words but i still stammer a little bit when i'm speaking English either trying to find words to speak or the words just don't come up in my mind. It's so frusting! My goal is to speak fluently. By the way, i love your accent and the way you teach 😍 Tks
Just in case remember that to know one word means not only this word but also a word family ( a group of words that share the same root word), for example: Write-Writer-Wrote-Written-Writs-Writing, etc. All this represents only one word, not several words. Consider this.
@@putinisakiller8093 In my case I count all those as only one word, but if you do it other way it is okay. My point is just don't forget to consider that when measuring and comparing by using the correct pattern previously set up for that. Otherwise, we would be either overestimating in your case or underestimating in my case.
@@olpicado I'm not sure that there is the only correct way of measuring. Different languages different problems. My native language has 24-28 forms for every adjective. And each of them may have 2 or more meanings. 😊 HOW to count them?... I understand your approach, but words can have several meanings. Is it one word or more?... How many words is a word (a) nail?
@@putinisakiller8093 yes, I understand your point, even I'm not saying there is only one way, but we need to consider first what is the rule used and then we can compare or estimate accurately. I thought I heard in the video or in some articles from other polyglots that measure (1 word per family) as the most used at least for English but I could be wrong. The important thing is to take it into consideration in order not to be comparing apples with oranges, let's say for example that person A counts all the words separately (write, writing, written, etc), on the other hand person B counts all that group of words as one, that way at the end of the day we could be wrong when measuring the progress of each person or even the level of vocabulary they manage because of this misunderstanding, as well as we could develop research with inaccurate data.
About 'meldrop and want'... I think most of us know which words are the 1000 most used words. Because we also know which words we use a lot in our own language. Things like to reach, to forget, couch, tv, work, loan, run, decide, etc. But I think it can be difficult to know if a word belongs to the 8000 most used words.
Hi Jack. How interesting topic this is!. There must be a kind of calculator to quantify the amount of words someone knows. I don't have any idea how to know this.
hi, Jack. I really like your videos! I need to have a courage to talk in english. I know some words. I dont know how many they are. I go to England in a future and a need speak with my daughter's family. I see CNN and BBC radio. I understand a lot or a few things .but i continue a poor speaker. thanks
1 Highlight frequently important words 2 learn words through sentences in each context( natural to you) 3 focus on the words you need to know ( you are going to use ) 4 passive and active that you are going to use or not
I'm not exact but I know around 2k words but I want to explain to you my situation BC your video really touches me I feel like I'm in the level C1 I understand around 80% in daily English conversation I speak almost fluently but my problem is when I test my level in English , online I made too many advanced grammar mistakes also those tests give me B1 or B2 level and that's frustrated(BTW I'm not a student and I learn English BC it's a passion also for a better future) my question is how can I know my real level to set up the correct purposes 😊
I don’t know, I’m already confused. I’m getting confused. How many words to learn, what idioms are important. Important. Please tell me which program is best
Hi Jack, I am a really big fan of you. You do a great work. About how many words I know. I really don’t exactly but it’s supposed to be a big number but the problem I struggle that I often forget words I learned especially when I make an English conversation. I feel I do my best I study constantly but still forget. Any advice for a poor memory
Mr Jack, It's a bare great lesson I really like it Mr Jack, Could you pls add the English subtitle as you always did It helps understanding the vidoe 100% Looking farward to it ☺😊
Hello, I would like to know if with 15,000 to 20,000 word families I will be able to read entire books like novels without having to look up the meaning of a bunch of words. I took the tests and my score was 12,000 but I still find it difficult to read more advanced books. I have set myself a goal to reach a vocabulary of 18,000 words so that I can read novels fluently to enjoy reading as a hobby. That is, there are 6,000 words left to learn. If I learn 10 words a day which is an ease pace then it will take me approximately 1 year and 7 months to reach that goal. Is 18,000 words a good number? Reinforcing here that I am only concerned with passive read-only vocabulary.
It depends on what you read. If it's sci-fi, fantasy or technology, 20,000 may be not enough. To read native adult books, you have to know as much as an average adult native.
Wow I got like 11,100 in the vocab test but I still lack the confidence and still experience stuttering. I'm only confident when I'm writing in English (like this one)
hello brother you are not native english right?? and with you 11thaouthand word , can you understand all english movie you which without subtitle?? can you please awnser me.
@@azmh6723 I know 12.000 and it's not possible, I still looking meanings of words. You should know 16.000-20.000 words to be like a native speaker. I´m able to read newspapers e watch movies, but I don´t get all words.
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A lot of you have been asking about how you can find out how many words you know. I'll make a video on that soon!
If you're new here, welcome! I've got something for you. It's my book - The 5-Step Plan for English Fluency - and it's free to download: www.tofluency.com/5-step-plan/
Let me know if you have any questions.
This is an interesting topic. When I statred out in Spanish I found the '3000 words' idea really motivated me to learn 10-20 words per day. That said, I find "confidence" can often largely depend on context too. When my Spanish was at around B2 a few years ago, I thought I was doing pretty well. Then one day, I was at my girlfriend's flat surrounded by her Spanish student friends who were having a heated debate about the country's current political situation. It took all of my efforts just to follow along. I wasn't able to take part in the discussion as I couldn't keep up with the pace. Two hours later I was absolutely exhausted, but you can bet my listening improved. So my advice is this: don't wait until you become 'confident'. We gain confidence by doing.
Love the British Accent, the pauses, the sentence stress, chunking. I hope will achieve this in future.
I hope the same bro! Brithis Aceent is beautiful. Greetings from south america
I have no difficulty understanding you say in this video, Jack. I can understand every word you say. Thanks!
I always use learning words through sentences. It's incredibly useful.
gofor word
And do you have to learn a entire sentence to every word that you learn? It seems to demand a lot of effort.
It's the best method
Yes words does not comes in mind when we wanna speak in English
I stopped learning English for a year, why you ‘re so younger than last year.💕
this channel is just amazing. The speaker is incredible. The guy speaks clearly and understandably. My problem in English is that I understand very poorly by ear and catch only the main idea of what was said and about 10%..20% of the details. But in this case, I understand about 70% of what was said thanks to the speaker's effort to speak clearly.
I don't know exactly how many words i know, but I'd estimate 5000 words, I'm not fluency, but i am able to understand videos just like yours
I don’t know exactly how many words I know, but I think over 8000 words. The difficulty is that some English words have many meanings in my own language German. I learn new words from books and articles. I learn daily for three hours a day and watch Netflix in English with subtitles, but I can’t understand all. I make progress every day and learn more words.
mind palace is the solution
Basically, all my questions were answered in this video.
Because of it, now, I know how to plan and move forward with learning.
This video popped up in the right moment for me and I am definitely going to save it.
Thank you so much!
I love the video, mainly because I was able to understand everything, that's difficult for me at the moment, now it's probably because your vocabulary is for beginners, but still I felt very happy that my english is giving results. And thank you for the tips!
You can do tests online that ask you about 70 words and then estimate the size of your vocabulary. I'm a native English speaker and I did two tests. I got 23,600 words and 36,000 words. The latter result represents about 60% of the total words in English. I got 25,000 in Spanish (I'm sure that this is an overestimate) and 4400 in French.
ps. I just passed B2 French test. So that fits in with your guidelines.
@@englishwithmrd I've just subscribed to your channel. It seems very useful!!
@@englishwithmrd BTW, could you please leave the tests link here? If it wouldn't bother you, course!
@@DuduSP7 vocabulary.ugent.be/
@@DuduSP7 Thanks for subscribing! Welcome:)
i understand what you say in this video,i know about 3000-8000 words.and i got a lot of trouble in reading books and news.
Great! I think just know about to one thousand words and I barely can understand you. Currently my english is very low yet but I follow efforing.
I am brazilian and I think it is quite relative. What is the use of knowing more than 3.000 words if one is not able to use them properly? Someone can know by heart more than 3.000 words but his shiness stop him to talk or he simply cant use the proper grammar. Learning a different language is an endless task!
Agreed ... It's a like a rainbow ...
i think ,having a good number of words and essencial phrases,is aways a good ideia to have a basic to conversation and writhe in any language.
I did a vocab test . It was there in a BBC article . Took the test scored 8800 words .
Im happy . But I wanna speak English fluently .
knowing word its everything... even if you dont speak rightly or fluenty.. you can make other people understand what you want !
It is the most important lesson I ever watched! I know 4000-5000 words and I have almost B2 level. And I feel that it is almost enough for me.
do you know to speak english completly??
@@azmh6723 what do you mean?
@@LyashenkoSergiy
i mean can 5000 thousnd english world
make you a translater???
@@azmh6723 yes 5000 words are absolutely enough. I very rare use dictionary. Most words those meanings I do not know I can understand from context.
@@LyashenkoSergiy
can you understand Amrican a film move that is 1 hours long ??
I know thousand words in english but not enough i can not still understand english enough really need to know more than thousand words, really wanna understand english movies fluently and without any problem when i watch because wanna feel accomplish guy at least 4 year ago i hadnt even know 300 words really educated myself and i am proud of it. I love this language
Greetings from istanbul center of the world
Good evening Sir..... thankyou very much for this valuable english lesson. The way you teaching is clearly.. freely...friendly...happily... i enjoy the lesson so much. So appreciate it. I love your british accent so much. By the way i am from indonesia.
Thanks brother love from India 🇮🇳
I love your accent
And I love your new style
From Indonesia Jack but my husband lives in London
THank you!
Thanks for helping us, jack.
Your efforts allows count, making us making progress.
👍👍💪
Your way of speaking is an easy to grasp.
I am turkısh and ı understood what you said of 90-95 percent,ı used to just memorize before but now ı got my leason,ı will learn new words in a sentences or ı will be creating new sentences by using the words that ı have learn recently
Intelligent video , I am from Egypt and this is first time for me to watch you but l internalize new concepts to develop my skills in English. Thank you for this video and continue👍👍👍💪💪💪🤟
This lesson is very useful, it is easy to understand and help me how to learn new words and use its effectively.
My result was 8.670 words but i still stammer a little bit when i'm speaking English either trying to find words to speak or the words just don't come up in my mind. It's so frusting! My goal is to speak fluently. By the way, i love your accent and the way you teach 😍 Tks
How did you get this result?
I hope to reach level C1! Thank you for this lesson.
how much word you know man???
???
tropecientas
Hi.. i,m from México i don,t know how many words i know in english but i understood a 95% what you said ... Is that good?
Good evening mam, improve my English spoken day by day thanks and you are amazing teaching thanks
Just in case remember that to know one word means not only this word but also a word family ( a group of words that share the same root word), for example: Write-Writer-Wrote-Written-Writs-Writing, etc.
All this represents only one word, not several words. Consider this.
A verb, a participle, a noun and an adjective are different words that have a common root.
@@putinisakiller8093 In my case I count all those as only one word, but if you do it other way it is okay. My point is just don't forget to consider that when measuring and comparing by using the correct pattern previously set up for that. Otherwise, we would be either overestimating in your case or underestimating in my case.
@@olpicado
I'm not sure that there is the only correct way of measuring. Different languages different problems. My native language has 24-28 forms for every adjective. And each of them may have 2 or more meanings. 😊 HOW to count them?... I understand your approach, but words can have several meanings. Is it one word or more?...
How many words is a word (a) nail?
@@putinisakiller8093 yes, I understand your point, even I'm not saying there is only one way, but we need to consider first what is the rule used and then we can compare or estimate accurately. I thought I heard in the video or in some articles from other polyglots that measure (1 word per family) as the most used at least for English but I could be wrong. The important thing is to take it into consideration in order not to be comparing apples with oranges, let's say for example that person A counts all the words separately (write, writing, written, etc), on the other hand person B counts all that group of words as one, that way at the end of the day we could be wrong when measuring the progress of each person or even the level of vocabulary they manage because of this misunderstanding, as well as we could develop research with inaccurate data.
Thanks jack, this class make me feel learn so be easier...
Thank you very much
What a interesting video! I didn't to know this, maybe i'm More slow that 3000 words, now 😅
I like your smart way of teaching 🙋💓
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Thank you sir
This is a great calculation. It inspires me to study more and make more lessons.
About 'meldrop and want'... I think most of us know which words are the 1000 most used words. Because we also know which words we use a lot in our own language. Things like to reach, to forget, couch, tv, work, loan, run, decide, etc. But I think it can be difficult to know if a word belongs to the 8000 most used words.
Your podcasts are amazing 😊thx😊
Thanks
That's Amazing.
Dictionary a good Book my favorite
Hi Jack, thank you a lot for sharing videos like this, it is very useful for me
Hello sir , could you make a video on daily use words please ?
Check out my recent upload.
Thank youu🙆♀🤗
I know abt 10k words! I understand 98%of what native speakers say!
Do you have a podcast chanel , jack ??
Hi Jack. How interesting topic this is!. There must be a kind of calculator to quantify the amount of words someone knows. I don't have any idea how to know this.
Thanks for your dedicated video for us. So awesome
From Vietnam
hi, Jack. I really like your videos! I need to have a courage to talk in english. I know some words. I dont know how many they are. I go to England in a future and a need speak with my daughter's family. I see CNN and BBC radio. I understand a lot or a few things .but i continue a poor speaker. thanks
Thank you🙏🌹❤
I like it 😙
I need to improve my vocabulary can yu plzz make a video with the example 😊
1 Highlight frequently important words
2 learn words through sentences in each context( natural to you)
3 focus on the words you need to know ( you are going to use )
4 passive and active that you are going to use or not
I'm not exact but I know around 2k words but I want to explain to you my situation BC your video really touches me I feel like I'm in the level C1 I understand around 80% in daily English conversation I speak almost fluently but my problem is when I test my level in English , online I made too many advanced grammar mistakes also those tests give me B1 or B2 level and that's frustrated(BTW I'm not a student and I learn English BC it's a passion also for a better future) my question is how can I know my real level to set up the correct purposes 😊
do you understand english movie without subtitle???
It was very informative but how can you know how many words do you know or use🙄?
The same thing I thought
It seems like I need to make another video on this!
There is app on google play "15000 english words". Completed all of them, but still on level B1...
I also want to know this
@@TheSoundshift tq bro✨
Thanks alottt I'll try to learn words more thorough sentence 8000+to have academic English language
How would we know ? how much word we know and what is our vocabulary level.
Thank you for your classes!! Good job!
Teacher your video is very good and Thank you.😃
Thanks for your videos Jack
I love your lessons, mate
Thank you!
That was helpful thanks
thanks for giving us a valuable information. i love the whole content.by the way im new to.your chennal.thanks once again.love and respect from india.
Great! Thank you.
If we are looking to speak fluently in English, how many words should we know , brother ?
I have an 8800 word vocab , acc. to a Vocab test .
Great video, still we need to know what are the Want words ?
Thr great video, yeah!
I don’t know, I’m already confused. I’m getting confused. How many words to learn, what idioms are important. Important. Please tell me which program is best
TF is your best English friend.
Thanks sir
A useful chanel
I improve a lot
Thank you so muchhhhhhh❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks jack
It's great lesson thanks
Hi Jack, I am a really big fan of you.
You do a great work.
About how many words I know. I really don’t exactly but it’s supposed to be a big number but the problem I struggle that I often forget words I learned especially when I make an English conversation. I feel I do my best I study constantly but still forget.
Any advice for a poor memory
I love you jack...seriously..
Nice! Thanks 😘
Excellent.
Great!!! Thx!!!
First Impression: Confident Body Language.
Great 👍🏻
What is the meaning of mel drop?
How many words do you know in english?? I just want to know. pls reply me
I am a new student, I am happy because I can follow very well, but I realised that I am on lower intermediate level: 2000= B1
Can you tell me pdf about the most important English vocabulary please
Mr Jack, It's a bare great lesson
I really like it
Mr Jack, Could you pls add the English subtitle as you always did
It helps understanding the vidoe 100%
Looking farward to it ☺😊
It's there, isn't it?
I've got it now
Cheers Mr Jack
It really helpful
You are such great
Hello, I would like to know if with 15,000 to 20,000 word families I will be able to read entire books like novels without having to look up the meaning of a bunch of words. I took the tests and my score was 12,000 but I still find it difficult to read more advanced books. I have set myself a goal to reach a vocabulary of 18,000 words so that I can read novels fluently to enjoy reading as a hobby. That is, there are 6,000 words left to learn. If I learn 10 words a day which is an ease pace then it will take me approximately 1 year and 7 months to reach that goal. Is 18,000 words a good number? Reinforcing here that I am only concerned with passive read-only vocabulary.
It depends on what you read. If it's sci-fi, fantasy or technology, 20,000 may be not enough. To read native adult books, you have to know as much as an average adult native.
My 80/20 is on Business English :)
What does meldrop implies here?
Hi, I tried to get the book but it's unavailable for download.
thanks a lot can you send us 10000 words in pdf to read it please i want to make sure from my english hhh
Hhh.lmao
great video
6,500 words ! I need to get 10k :)
6500 wow ??
you reached that level that you could understand moives??
whate is your advice for me who know only 3000 thaouthand word???
@@azmh6723 now I know abt 8 - 10 k words!
Wow I got like 11,100 in the vocab test but I still lack the confidence and still experience stuttering. I'm only confident when I'm writing in English (like this one)
hello brother
you are not native english right??
and with you 11thaouthand word , can you understand all english movie you which without subtitle??
can you please awnser me.
@@azmh6723 I know 12.000 and it's not possible, I still looking meanings of words. You should know 16.000-20.000 words to be like a native speaker. I´m able to read newspapers e watch movies, but I don´t get all words.
banging 4 points
Good
I believe I know about 1000 words in English currently.