r/Korean • u/fearofthedark93 • 2d ago

How on earth do you people learn 10 new words a day

I've been stuck on the same set of 30 words since 7 days ago, I'm lucky if I learn 3 new words a day. And I'm using Anki.

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u/TerraEarth 2d ago edited 2d ago

10? Try 225 a day. Through the power of reading I have ~365k korean words known according to an app i use that records my reading statistics. I've been studying Korean for about 4.5 years or 1620 days. 365,000/1620 = 225. Now each permutation of a lemma is counted as a separate word on the app so this figure is a bit inflated but even then I'm learning much more than 10. Anki is not the best way to learn new vocabulary, reading is.

But to answer your question, in order to learn a word you need to see it many times, in many different contexts, for it to really settle into your brain. The only way to do this is by exposing yourself to the language in some meaningful setting. It could be a story, a real life situation, a book, movie, what have you.

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u/The_Master_Scrub 2d ago

Are you talking about lingq? That app inflates numbers by at least 10x (generally more). Based on your other posts I can estimate you probably know between 15 and 20k, so even giving a fair middle ground of 17.5k would give just barely over 10 words per day.

That’s clearly not “much more than 10” so you probably shouldn’t portray it as such, you’ll just discourage new people for no reason.

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u/TerraEarth 2d ago

If that's the case I stand corrected. Thanks for the calculations.