vividvega:

I am trying so hard to not get my hopes up with you

rufflet:

Angry customer: “Well maybe I’ll just take my business somewhere else!”

Me:  

darasteine:

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences
The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences
The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences
The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences
The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences
The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences
The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences
The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

• ‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    
• Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    
• Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    
• Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    
• Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

• Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    
• People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    
• Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    
• Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    
• Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    
• Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

• General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    
• Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    
• Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    
• Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

• Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    
• Demonstrative: this, that.    
• Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    
• Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    
• Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

• Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    
• Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    
• General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    
• Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

• arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

• Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    
• Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    
• Demonstrative: this, that.    
• Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    
• Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    
• Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

• Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    
• Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    
• Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    
• Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

• Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    
• Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    
• Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   
  

languageekk:

·       бе́дный - бога́тый (poor - rich)

·       безопа́сный - опа́сный (safe - dangerous)

·       большо́й - ма́ленький (big - small)

·       всегда́ - никогда́ (always - never)

·       гря́зный - чи́стый (dirty - clean)

·       дли́нный - коро́ткий (long - short)

·       дорого́й - дешёвый (expensive - cheap)

·       друго́й - похо́жий (different - similar)

·       живо́й - мёртвый (alive - dead)

·       интере́сный - ску́чный (interesting - boring)

·       краси́вый - уро́дливый (beautiful - ugly)

·       лёгкий - сло́жный (easy - difficult)

·       ме́дленно - бы́стро (slow - fast)

·       ме́ньше - бо́льше (less - more)

·       молодо́й - ста́рый (young - old)

·       мя́гкий - твёрдый/жёсткий (soft - hard)

·       но́вый - ста́рый (new - old)

·       норма́льный - стра́нный (normal - weird)

·       пра́вый - ле́вый (right - left)

·       пусто́й - по́лный (empty - full)

·       ра́но - по́здно (early - late)

·       свобо́дный - за́нятый (free - busy)

·       споко́йный - не́рвный (calm - nervous)

·       тёмный - све́тлый (dark - light)

·       тёплый - холо́дный (warm - cold)

·       тяжёлый - лёгкий (heavy - light)

·       у́мный - глу́пый (clever - stupid)

·       хоро́ший - плохо́й (good - bad)

·       ча́сто - ре́дко (often - seldom)

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