I finished reading Spy: Highspeed London by Arno Strobel. This book felt noticeably more difficult despite me knowing approximately the same number of words as the previous books I've read. I suspect this is because it was written by a German native speaker instead of being translated. I've also decided that I'll try and track the amount of conversation and listening practice that I do. I'm not going to religiously track my listening but I will total up the number of hours that I listen to podcasts. I've also totaled up the number of pages I've read and included my usual anki stats.
I ended up taking two online vocabulary tests that gave me estimates of 5736 and 7700 words known. I personally feel that these are both overestimates and are likely the result of me making educated guesses. I also estimated my reading speed at just under 80 words per minute. This is a much lower than the average speed I've seen quoted in various papers but it may be lower because I'm not targeting reading material with 98% lexical coverage. I'll measure it again in the future to see if it improves.
I've also managed to find two different list of German science fiction award winning novels. Science fiction is my favorite genre so I'm going to try and make my way through a few of the books on these lists starting with the ones made both lists the year they won. I've started on "Das Schiff" and I'm enjoying it so far.
If anyone is interested here are links to the award lists I found as well as the science fiction forum I've been browsing and the vocabulary tests I took.
Award lists:https://www.literaturpreisgewinner.de/s ... tion-preishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher ... tion_Preishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurd_La%C3%9Fwitz_AwardSci fi forum:https://www.scifi-forum.de/forum/off-to ... cher-forumVocab tests:https://www.arealme.com/german-vocabulary-size-test/en/https://wortschatz.tk/Total conversation hours: 5 hours
Total tracked listening hours: 4 hours
Total pages read: 3595
Lexical coverage for Spy: Highspeed London
Sample #| Unknown Words | Total Words | Estimated Known Vocabulary%Sample 1 | 19 | 244 | 92.21%
Sample 2 | 18 | 224 | 91.96%
Sample 3 | 10 | 217 | 95.39%
Sample 4 | 16 | 247 | 93.52%
Sample 5 | 20 | 229 | 91.27%
Sample 6 | 16 | 209 | 92.34%
Sample 7 | 18 | 227 | 92.07%
Sample 8 | 8 | 187 | 95.72%
Sample 9 | 11 | 215 | 94.88%
Sample 10 | 13 | 226 | 94.25%
Total | 149 | 2225 | 93.3%
Anki Stats:New: 184
Due: 429
Learning: 13
Relearning: 21
Young: 197
Mature: 1272
Total: 1664