下面的小常识至少可以让我们了解：
1、学好英语可以更好地利用互联网信息；
3、很多中国英语学习者的词汇量竟然和英语国家一般人的词汇量差不多，甚至更多！
4、很多中国英语学习者背过的单词可能一辈子都没有机会去使用！
5、对于中高级英语学习者来说词汇量尤为重要，它直接影响你的英语听力。
What percentage of the internet is in English?
互联网使用英语的比例是多少？
More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English.
互联网上80%的网页使用英语。
How many words does the average native speaker know?
在英语国家一般的人能掌握多少单词？
This depends on the speaker's level of education, background etc, but somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000. Shakespeare used more than 30,000 words in his works.
这取决于每个人的文化程度，一般情况下能掌握12000到20000个单词。莎士比亚在其著作中用了30000多个单词。
How many words does the average native speaker use in everyday speech?
英语作为母语的一般人在日常生活中使用多少单词？
The average native speaker of any language uses around a tenth of his vocabulary in everyday speech. In other words, around 1200 to 2000.
作为母语，任何语言的一般使用者在日常会话中大概使用其词汇量的十分之一，也就是说大约1200到2000个。
How many words do you need to learn in order to communicate in most situations?
需要掌握多少单词才能在大多数情况下进行语言交流？
A vocabulary of between 1500 to 2000 words should be enough for most circumstances. The more you know the better because even though you can control the words you use, you can't control the other person. Because of this, you need to learn more words to understand well than you need to speak well.
在大多情况下掌握1500到2000单词就足以用来交流了。当然单词掌握的越多越好，因为即使你可以控制自己使用的单词量，但你却不能控制别人的单词量。因此，听得懂英语要比说好英语需要更多的词汇量。