The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild

Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by wingerlang on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:30AM (#20722896)

How do you check your coverage? Or even how many words you know?

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by bspammer on Saturday August 17, 2019 @09:29AM (#20723925)

Just googling around, I found this test: https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

No idea about its accuracy, but as a native English speaker it's telling me my vocabulary size is 30k words, which sounds roughly correct.

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by thwave on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:38PM (#20726883)

I've tried it now and got 22k, which seems not so bad for a foreigner ("Top 6.53% Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!"), but I feel like I cheated: most of the more fancy English words are just misspelled Latin, and having even a modest Latin vocabulary (I'd don't think I know more than 4k Latin words) makes their meanings pretty obvious.

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by xxxpupugo on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:52AM (#20722944)

There are certain tests floating around, like they will try 50ish quiz to estimate your vocabulary size.

Those are not set-in-stone science, so it is just an estimate, but I take about 10+ over those years, and the the number from those estimates seems consistent.

Coverage, there is some paper to track, I just googled it.

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