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Download a FREE list of the 5,000 most common Spanish words.
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Aren't you tired of Spanish courses including uncommon, irrelevant words like "the archeologist checked the coordinates of the Olmec ruins in Guanajuato"? The time you waste learning rare words could be better used learning more common and actually useful words, like hotel, airport, water, sugar and so on. If you focus on common words, you can make faster progress in Spanish. Spoken Spanish has more than a hundred thousand words, but with just the 1,000 most common words, you can cover 79% of spoken Spanish, and with just the 5,000 most common words, you can cover almost 90% of spoken Spanish. The problem is, until now there hasn't been a list of common words that represented spoken Spanish. So I decided to create one.
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To create this word list, I downloaded thousands of subtitles of movies and TV shows from from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and more. This corpus, or database, is a good reflection of how Spanish is actually spoken across the Spanish-speaking world. I then used a corpus analysis software to find the words with the highest contextual diversity, that is, the words that appear in the largest number of different movies and TV shows. Research has shown time and again that the most common words in movies and TV shows are the words most familiar to native speakers of a language. Say what you want about Spanish language TV and movies. Love them or hate them, the truth is that they're a better reflection of real life speech than newspapers and books. And when I say the most common words, I mean the words with the highest contextual diversity, that is, the words that appear in the biggest number of different contexts.
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The FREE PDF you're about to download is the result of these efforts. I'm using this data to create my own Spanish-from-zero course, called "Spanish Input". It will be the first Spanish course ever that's laser focused on teaching you the most common words, while at the same time using comprehensible input as the main, but not the only, learning method. No nonsense about archeologists, coordinates and Olmec ruins. You need to make sure every minute you spend with a course is a minute that gets you closer to fluency. I hate people wasting my time (that's why I don't have WhatsApp), so I won't waste your valuable time with this course. The first level of the Spanish Input course is still a couple months away, and until then I'll keep you posted on the progress of this project. The course will be made available on a new paid membership section on my YouTube channel, Spanish Input. In the video below you can learn more about the research behind the creation of the Spanish Input word list.
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The Spanish Input word list is free, but if you want you can donate a couple of bucks for coffee. =)
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The Spanish Input word list is free, but if you want you can donate a couple of bucks for coffee. =)
To get it for free, just type "0" in the price field.