Menéame Choosing your Vocabulary in a Foreign Language Vocabulary Size Now you have an incredibly efficient way to memorize words, you know how to teach yourself each word, and you know what each word sounds like. How do you choose which words to learn, and how many words do you need to learn? You could memorize a dictionary, but it will take you years. English has around 250,000 words (depending upon how you count them). Other languages will be similarly gigantic. “The maddening thing about these numbers and statistics is that they are impossible to pin down precisely and thus they vary from source to source. Let’s set aside the 20,000 word possibility for a bit and talk about your goals. Fluency and Goal Setting The goal I like to suggest to students is C1 fluency according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Word Coverage and Frequency Lists Going back to Dr. At 80% coverage, it’s clear that the topic has something to do with forests, trees and wood supplies, but it’s not particularly clear what’s going on.
How to Learn Spanish (using free online resources!)Learn Spanish from Music Videos: Shakira’s ‘Lo Hecho Está Hecho’ aka ‘Objection (Tango)’ This is the 6th in a series of posts I’m doing where I help you learn Spanish from music videos and show you how I do it myself (that way you don’t have to wait for me to dissect a Spanish music video, you can go out and start doing it yourself with whatever songs you want and using it to teach yourself Spanish). I’ve done five other similar posts prior to this: the last one on Juanes’ ‘Yerbatero’, the fourth one on Shakira’s ‘Te Aviso, Te Anuncio’, the third one on Shakira’s “Ojos Así”, the second one on Shakira’s “Suerte” and the first one on Shakira’s “La Tortura”. If you’ve got any suggestions as far as artists or songs go please put them in the comments, I’d love to hear them. About This Song This song was originally released in English as part of Shakira’s She Wolf album (the Spanish version of which was called Loba) and was called Did It Again. lila – A night ritual of Gnawa people of Morocco. Source: Hamsa Lila Ground Rules 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The Video The Lyrics Translation and Analysis