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Studying heritage language learners reveal that a person with a vocabulary size of 2,500 passive word-families and 2,000 active word-families can speak a language fluently.
L’étude des apprenants de langue d’origine révèle qu’une personne possédant un vocabulaire d’une taille de 2 500 familles de mots passives et 2 000 familles de mots actives, peut parler une langue couramment.
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