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Jun 2023
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Active & Passive Vocabulary: When Do We ...

Steve Kaufmann
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When do we know a word? Who cares? Just keep pumping words into your brain. Keep on actively pursuing words. That’s what we measure at LingQ. How many words you have grabbed and thrown into your brain. How many stick or when they stick is largely out of our control. 
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