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Originally Posted by hilmnanshini
what?? 10000?? how can people of japan remember of them?? is all of the kanji is used for the communicating?
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There are as many as
a million words in English. Do you know them all? Does anyone know them all? No.
Number of Words in the English Language
On the other hand, the average speaker only knows 10,000 to 20,000.
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In other words, the average English speaker only knows possibly
one or two percent of all words in the English language!
Just a tip for you: In the future, when you have questions about the language as a language (as opposed to the grammar or vocabulary), just think about your own native language. Often, analogies provide illumination!