Could anyone tell me what is considered to be the number of words a
speaker of a new language needs to know to "get by" in that language?
Or how many words a person needs to be able to read a newspaper? I'm
mostly interested in Swedish.
Best regards,
Alice Carlberger
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Alice Carlberger E-mail: alice@speech.kth.se
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Phone: +46 8 790 75 62
TMH (Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing) Fax: +46 8 790 78 54
Drottning Kristinas v=E4g 31
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
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