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To: Yogizuna who wrote (513)	9/20/2003 12:06:39 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108745

It is hard to say, I would say maybe around 4,000 words, maybe more? In Chinese, it is not as important how many words you memorize as how good you use them. Because one word can be use in many sentence and many ways. You only need to memorize 1,000 or so Chinese words in order to deal with every day life. But you have to get hold of how to use those 1,000 words, and that is the difficult part, and especially plenty of different words sounds exactly the same. The Chinese dictionary published in Emperor Kang Xi Era (Qing Dynesty bet. 1662 - 1723) had 600,000+ words, but now most of them already obsolete, not used any more. I think English has similar situation, e.g. Shakespeare used much more words in his writing than the modern writers. If I remember correctly, the modern Concise Chinese dictionary include around 8,000 single Chinese words (many more multi-word expression). BTW, here is an online English-Chinese Dictionary tigernt.com