Credit - BBC News:
Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue?
That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme by one frustrated listener. Despite learning German for three years, and practising nearly every day, they still couldn't seem to retain more than 500 words.
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