I only need 1000 words
Hi all,
Today’s blog is simply about vocabulary… you can learn word after word with vocabulary books and games, but how commonly are those words used?
Well, we have a list provided to us by About.com’s ESL page.
They’ve managed to rank the top 1000 most commonly used words in English. Looks like the list was created by a guy named Jerry Jones. I don’t know how - maybe by using Google? Anyway, the most common word is… “the.” Well, I admit, that’s not much of a surprise, and not very exciting, but it gives you a chance to see the truly important everyday-use words.
To be sure, your vocabulary will need more than 1000 words for you to be fully fluent. However, many of the top 1000 words are the building blocks of English. To really test yourself, take some of the most common verbs and nouns and try to make collocations out of them. See what collocations are here.
