One Response to “studying a foreign language based on word frequency”

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   Sargon's Lover 11 July 2008 at 7:35

   Actually memorising a core of 500 frequently used words is the way language is taught in some countries.

   I could be a wag and tell you that I could teach you 500 words of the Bavarian dialect of German, and that is really all you would ever need to know. ;-p