Reading progress estimate: have read 454,000 words of chinese (not including graded readers or rereading).
An article I've referenced before, said it would take reading around 92 books (at 120,000 each) or 11,040,000 words, to learn 9000 words in the language and be a fairly fluent reader.
So reading roughly ~11,000,000 words is the goal for me. (To test if the article was true, to experience it and decide for myself how much progress that much reading results in).
So I've read 454,000/11,000,000 or ~4.127% of the amount it suggests. Damn, thats not much lol. (Still, its a lot of reading so far in comparison to nothing.
I WILL say though, that learning 5000 words (according to this article) was reading 20 books of around 120,000 words each. So reading 2,400,000 words. So at 5000 words known, reading becomes a lot easier i'd say? Or at least it makes continuing to pick things to learn words with extensive reading more easy to pick. And out of THAT goal, I'm 454,000/2,400,000 or around 19% there! Now that sounds more like the goal I was aiming for last time I estimated this stuff lol.
If you are also learning chinese? The fact many a webnovel is easily 100k-400k words, and the shorter ones still usually 40k-60k words, means you can knock out this 2.4 million words read goal in around 48 webnovels to 6 webnovels (depending on the reading materials you pick). With the average 120k word novel picks requiring you read around 20 120k word books. So far, I'd say this has somewhat lined up with my experience. I've read over 10 shorter stories - i dont remember how much (dmbj 1 and 2 at around 30-40k each, some kids stories at 20k a piece, some short 20k danmei, one beast fanfic that was 126k, and some 20-40k beginnings of longer books).
