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She/Her, 30-something that overthinks it. Learning 🇰🇷🇹🇼. I like all things biology, weird stuff, shapenote, and humanism. A darn yellow composite Taiwanese American.

Screenshot of four example sentences in Naver dictionary for 엿먹다 with English translations.

Can you show me two fingers?
너 나에게 엿먹으라고(손짓) 보여줄래?

Bollocks to the little Hitlers, son.
아들아, 꼬마 히틀러들에게 엿먹으라그랭

Allow me to count the ways in which I suck.
내가 엿먹을 수 있는 상황들을 따져볼께요.

I am not the one who asked you to kiss my ass.
너에게 엿 먹으라고 한 사람은 내가 아냐.

Cover of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

Screenshot of example sentence from Naver Dictionary.

Transcript:

Cannibalism was rife and some women offered sexual favours in return for food.

식인 풍습이 성행했고 몇몇 여성들은 음식의 대가로 동침을 허락했다.

Example sentence from Naver dictionary.

Transcription:

Adult female human beings are called women.
여성은 성인 여자를 일컫는다.

Excerpt out of Paul Nation's 2014 Paper, How much input do you need to learn the most frequent 9,000 words?

Transcript:

Even though repetition is a very important factor, it is still only one of many factors, and as a result there is no particular minimum number of repetitions that ensures learning. For reading, Vidal (2011) found the greatest increase in learning between two and three repetitions. Webb (2007a, 2007b) found at least 10 repetitions were needed to develop something approaching rich knowledge, but Webb used 10 different tests for each word measuring orthography, association, grammatical functions, syntax, and meaning and form, both receptively and productively, thus requiring a fairly high standard of knowledge. Waring and Takaki (2003) found that at least eight repetitions of a word in a graded reader were needed to have a 50% chance of remembering the word three months later. Recognition after three months is a tough measure, and the scores on the immediate posttest were higher. In this study, the moderately safe goal of 12 repetitions is taken as the minimum. This fits with Vidal (2011) and Webb (2007a, 2007b), but according to Waring and Takaki (2003) and Brown, Waring, and Donkaewbua (2008) may be a bit too few. Twelve repetitions, however, are enough to allow the opportunity for several dictionary look-ups, several unassisted retrievals, and an opportunity to meet each word in a wide variety of contexts. It is also hoped that learning through written input will be supported to some degree by learning through spoken input, learning through output, deliberate learning, and fluency development, and so a high standard of learning from input alone is not necessary. Setting too low a number of repetitions would bias the study towards favouring the input position.

Table 1 from Nation, I.S.P. (2014). How much input do you need to learn the most frequent 9,000 words? Reading in a Foreign Language, 26(2), 1-16.

Table summarizes the number of novels a person would have to read to gain exposure to words 2000-9000 at least 12 times. To reach the last 1000 of 9000, one would need to read 25 novels in English which are listed below the table.

Book cover of Alexei Navalny's memoir Patriot. On a dark background, half of Navalny's face covers the left side of the cover. In white all caps sans serif text, "Alexei Nalvany," underneath in orange text of the same style and size, "Patriot," and beneath in smaller white all caps font, "A Memoir."

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