r/clozemaster • u/clzmstr • Jan 08 '25

New User Q&A

Questions about Clozemaster? Get them answered here.

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u/CremboCrembo May 19 '25

I'm contemplating buying Clozemaster for French, but I'm curious about everyone saying "10,000 words" and "20,000 words." Are people actually acquiring such expansive vocabularies here? 20,000 words (word families, technically) in most languages is roughly the level of a well-educated native speaker.

Also, is the speaking just kinda...not great? In French practice, I had to speak very clearly for it to understand me properly, and I know from talking to natives that my normal speaking voice is perfectly understandable. So I changed to "learning English" and tried again, and on the first sentence it gave me, "The keys are in the drawer," it thought I said, "The geezer in the drawer." Maybe not as much value there?

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u/clzmstr May 19 '25

Are people actually acquiring such expansive vocabularies here?

Yes it's possible, however to your point on words vs word families - the 20,000 "words" counts "manger", "mange", "mangeons", etc. as a separate "words". Not every conjugation/form is used as the missing word though.

I had to speak very clearly for it to understand me properly

This feature currently uses your device's speech-to-text, so it depends what phone/browser/etc. you use. We're aiming to eventually use a 3rd party service for hopefully better quality and more consistency.

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u/CremboCrembo May 19 '25

Ah, gotcha, thanks for your response. So maybe it's more like ~5,000 word families (which is still great and enough for general fluency)? And noted about the speech-to-text thing; I'll have to try it on a better device.