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Questions with this tag are about the acquisition of one or more second languages. In other words any language other than the mother tongue or native language of a given speaker.

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What Second Language Confers the Greatest Cognitive Benefit

You seem to be a bit confused about your own question. You can't really tell us what you mean by "congative benefit" or how one would measure it. I think you may mean one of two things, so: Linguisti …
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How many "words" do I need to learn?

From what I'm seeing it's generally accepted that most English speakers have a vocabulary size of 15000 to 20000 words. It should be noted that some sources place this estimate as high as 50000 to 750 …
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