[WalterBright]

I read years ago that:

1. TV vocabulary is 2,000 words

2. High school vocabulary is 10,000 words

3. College vocabulary is 30,000 words

4. English language has 1,000,000 words

This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words!

[jonahx]

> This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words!

Depends what you mean by "proficient". I currently know ~6k Spanish words and would hesitate to self-apply that word. Others might, but damn languages are hard.

[theli0nheart]

Being proficient in a language is really less about memorizing words than it is pronunciation and grammar. Memorization itself is pretty easy.

[Guestmodinfo]

Please someone tell me where to get those 1 million words in decreasing order of difficulty or ascending order of usage along with their meanings and insinuations

[stevesimmons]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists

[bilegeek]

Also worth going through the references of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

[WalterBright]

Sounds like a job for LLMs.