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How many words do I learn every day?

I don't know exactly because the depth of knowledge of each word varies. Actually, I have some difficulty with remembering people's names or place names, etc.
It takes time to learn new active words. Generally speaking, the more special terms we learn, the less we have the opportunity to say them in a daily life.
Plus it is very difficult for me to work out how many words I remember every day although I realize that "I got it" with Flash Card because each word has various meanings in different contexts.
When I find different usages of known words, I always realize that my previous decision might be only provisional.
In my experience, it is better to learn new phrases including unknown words than to learn each word separately, especially when we learn how to use basic words. Because native speakers say these phrases very fast without consider separating words too much.

The truth behind learning languages

It has been 12 years since I started learning English and only a few years since I realised that my journey towards mastery will never end. To never stop honing my skills and practicing what I have already learnt will always be my highest priority. These days I cannot imagine my life without using English, since it pervades all areas of my everyday life; every single day I read articles and blog posts in English it, I speak English to foreigners and I teach it to my students. I think in English and it has become part of who I am today. Or maybe rather a big part of me has started to think and live in English. Because I have learnt a foreign language, my life has changed irreversibly and now I simply cannot imagine living without this knowledge. Goethe said “You live a new life for every new language you speak” and although I have heard it over and over, I never fully realised how much meaning there was behind this maxim. Until now.

People do many different things to stay healthy. What do you do to maintain your health? Hi, my name is Laura, and I like to be healthy, that's why today I'd like to talk about it. To stay healthy I make my own breakfast every morning, with orange juice, some beverage and some carbohydrates, like cereal or cookies or bread. Then I am ready to do some exercise, with the bicycle [note, some crunches and walking. I know that I don't do very much, and I could do lot of more exercise, maybe next month, next year, in my next life!!

A Story

One cold and sunny morning Dan and Mark pushed their canoe into the river. Dan asked Mark where the map was, but Mark had not brought it, because he knew this river well.
Later they stopped to have a cup of coffee. Suddenly [note] they saw a kingfisher. Dan wanted to follow it. They got back into the canoe and started following the beautiful, colourful bird.
A short while later, when they decided to turn around, Dan and Mark saw a waterfall. They were quickly getting closer to the edge, but they couldn't stop.
Just then two fisherman threw a rope to them and pulled their canoe to safety. Dan and Mark were tired, but relieved. They thanked the fisherman . But the important thing was that they were safe.

New Year's Resolution

My New Year's Resolution is to make a firm commitment to the things that I want to achieve within this year.

I usually am a lazy person. I tend to leave things until the last minute if they are not work related. There have been many things that I wanted to achieve but didn't make sufficient effort. I didn't even care about not getting the result I wanted, even though I really hoped for it at one time.

This year, I have decided to focus on only a few things and consider them as my "tasks to be achieved".

Over the holidays, some LingQers seemed more active than ever! We were amazed to see the Honour Roll this month, and want to congratulate everyone who made it into the top 25!

Coming in first place is Jeremiah49, who showed his true language learning prowess with a spectacular Activity Score of 21,557. In a close second, and from all the way across the Atlantic, is pascal30 who also put up an amazing score of 20,102. Closing out the top three, from down under, is rae68.

This is the first time we have had two members over 20,000 Activity Score!

Imagine what would happen if you doubled (or tripled) your Activity Score from last month. Give it your all this month so that you, too, can make it on next month's Honour Roll!

Thank you to all of our excellent content providers! This month we had nearly 300 inidividual providers who received points for their contributions.

If you've never shared a lesson on LingQ before, give it a try! It's a great way to help out other learners, and you can even earn a few points doing so. For more information, click here!

Here are your top 25 content providers for the month of December:

Chinese

Eating Out, different voice

This collection is the same text as Eating Out but with a different voice. This voice is an older male's and he tends to speak more quickly. I hope, as a companion to the original, this helps people with repeated listening to the same text. 
Lessons in Collection: 9, New This Month: 9

Greetings and Goodbyes, different voice

This collection is the same text as Greetings and Goodbyes but with a different voice. This voice is an older male's and he tends to speak more quickly. I hope, as a companion to the original, this helps people with repeated listening to the same text. 
Lessons in Collection: 8, New This Month: 8

Hiyoko Zhongwen

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Lessons in Collection: 3, New This Month: 1

new HSK exam

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Lessons in Collection: 1, New This Month: 1

汉语教程 第三册 上

对 汉语 本科 系列 教材 
Lessons in Collection: 63, New This Month: 17

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Here is a complete explanation of the LingQ SRS (Spaced Repetition System). This system is designed to enable a thorough, staged review of the LingQs (words and phrases) you are learning.

Windswept

Here we are! A new year has begun, and I hope to reach my goals with English.
I also hope my brain will do a miracle very soon so I will be able to
understand native speakers as well as I would like and have all the darkness disappear. I really love English, and I know that the sooner my skills become strong, I will feel more comfortable speaking English. Maybe I should study a little more. Anyway, this is a wonderful website for studying where you can find many friends to talk to and improve your new language. I'm very happy to be here, and I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year.