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How many work words should I learn a week?

Nov 5, 2026
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About ten new words a week, added to the twenty-five you keep using, is a realistic pace. Forty is the size of the first collection, not the weekly target, and most people retain roughly twenty-five of their first forty because the rest never appear in speech.

About ten new words a week, added to the twenty-five you keep using, is a realistic pace. Forty is the size of the first collection, not the weekly target, and most people retain roughly twenty-five of their first forty because the rest never appear in speech.

Ten new words a week on top of the ones you keep using. Forty is the size of the first collection rather than a weekly target, and most people retain about twenty-five of the first forty because the rest never come up in speech.

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