[yosito]

Fair, you're not gonna give a speech with 200 words, but if it's the right 200 words (the most used ones) you can find a way to communicate almost anything. My point is that with memorizing just 200 words, there are creative ways to express everything and you can use that as a good base to start using the language and your progress will grow exponentially from there with minimal memorization. With 200 words of English, you might not know what "a pinch" is, but you know enough to have the conversation and figure it out even if the person you're talking to only speaks English.