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Old 09-Nov-2006, 08:28
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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
It is already in your vocabulary otherwise you couldn't remember that episode. Of course there are great many words which are rarely used in the language and it's not important to keep them in mind. But now I'm thinking about the native speaker who has the largest vocabulary. How many words he knows, I wonder.
Such words would increase the speasker's vocabulary enormously.
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