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by GABRIEL WYNER fluent-forever.com
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Copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Wyner Published digitally worldwide via the Fluent Forev Forever er website and blog Fluent-Forever.com Cover design: Sandra Salsbury Illustrations: Sandra Salsbury (illustratingreddit), Zach Weiner (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal), Michelle Czajkowski (Ava (Ava’’s Demon), Christopher Hastings (The Adventures of Dr. McNinja), Katie Tiedrich (Awkward Zombie), Chris Jones (Captain Excelsior and Snowakes), Anthony Clark (Nedroid), Andrea Tsurumi (her website), Der-shing Helmer (The Meek) and Jess Fink (Chester 5000 XYV). First Edition by Gabriel Wyner !"#$%&'!()$*$)+,(-
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Table of Contents Contents
Introduction
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The 625: Story Order
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The 625: Alphabetical Order
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The 625: Thematic Order
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The 625: Sample Translated Pages
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Your first 625 words
W elcome elcome to the Most Awesome Word Word List You
seems the most apple-like. As a result, you’ll have a harder time remembering pomme, and even if
Have Ever Seen! These words will form the foundation of your next new language. They’re some
you do remember, you’ll take much longer to nd it. And unfortunately, that’s not even the end of the story. While you’re having this mental ght,
of the most frequent words you’ll encounter in any language, and they’re all relatively easy to learn using pictures. In addition, because these words are grouped together into stories, they will be much easier to memorize when compared with the typical word lists that you nd in language textbooks and classrooms, where you learn colors one day, types of vegetables the next day, members of the family the following day, etc.
you’ve probably just made the situation a little worse for next time. Every time you think of two things at once, they interconnect. So if you’re busy thinking about pommes, poires and pêches, and you’re not particularly sure which one’s which, then you’re jumbling those three fruits together into a messy jam of “Fairly “Fairly confusing French fruits that start with the letter P.” You’ll be more likely to remember all three fruits the next time you try to
What’s the story behind these lists?
The resear research ch on this topic revo revolves lves arou around nd the concept of interference.1 Here’s the idea: Suppose you’re living in Paris, taking a beginning French class. One day, you learn a bunch of fruit names: une pomme (apple), une poire (pear), une pêche (peach). A few days later, you see an apple at a fruit stand and try to recall the word in
retrieve the word for pear or peach. I’ve run into this problem quite a bit on my own, especially in French, where I learned a lot of similar words at the same time. I still have problems remembering whether sept is 6 or 7, or whether jaune is yellow or green.
French. Your brain jumps into action, looking for your word through several possible routes. It’s a fruit! It’s a French word word I learned a few days ago! It starts with a P!
Looking at the numbers
The conce concept pt of interference has been researched in a lot of diff erent erent contexts, and I’ve linked ve related studies at the end of this article, if you’d
And because you happened to learn three French fruits that start with the letter P (and all on the same day), you’re kind of screwed. Memo-
like to read more.
One of the
rst
studies (Waring, 1997)
ries compete. When you try to recall your word, your three French fruits get into a kind of mental
gave test subjects a group of three to six words
tug-of-war, while you try to gure out which one
(apple = tisahl, pear = nugaw), and recorded how
and their “translations” into a fake foreign language
1 For more on interference, check out this Wikipedia article: En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_theory
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long it took each subject to memorize the trans-
and again one week later. In both cases, the kids
lations. Half of the subjects got a group of closely
had a harder time remembering similar words:
related words (jacket, shirt, sweater), and half got unrelated words (frog, car, rain). The researchers would quiz subjects subjec ts (what’s the word for “jacket”?) until they could remember every new translation within three seconds (‘jacket’ is…ummm…iddek!), and recorded the number of times they needed to repeat the tests until a subject successfully memorized a word. These are their results:
And they took longer to nish every similar-
word quiz, taking an average of 5.8 minutes to nish, compared to 4.9 minutes for unrelated-word quizzes.
So What Are Our Options, Then?
Similar words took more than 35% longer to
When you go by the numbers, learning similar
learn, at 11.3 11. 3 repetitions for a group of similar words, words,
words at the same time is a terrible idea. Granted, it
compared to 7.2 repetitions for a group of unrelated
feels a lot more comfortable; you can feel like you’ve
words. This This isn’t particularly efficient.
accomplished something whenever you learn new words (I learned all the colors today!), but given the
Still, time isn’t everything. What about reten-
detrimental eff ects ects it has on learning, we need some
tion? Once you memorize a group of similar or unre-
other options. So what are our alternatives?
lated words, how well do they stick?
In a 2008 study, researchers tested these
In most studies, the alternative to word
groups involved learning a jumble of totally un-
ideas in a school, teaching Turkish kids 40 unrelat-
related words, and that works quite well. If you’ve
ed English words (peg, key, rat, sun) and 40 related
browsed through my website or Appendix 5 of my
words (20 foods and 20 animals) in a classroom
book, you’ve probably run across my list of 625
setting, and testing them afterwards on how well
words to learn in every language.
they could match English words and pictures. They tested them immediately after each lesson
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The rst version of that list was presented
room, try on, cash register– rather than words that
in typical groups (animals, professions, etc.), but
t
based upon the research, I started playing around
and coat. They’re related words, rather than simi-
with the idea of an alphabetical list. Normally, an
lar words, and there’s a huge diff erence erence between
alphabetical list would solve the similar word prob-
them.
lem at the expense of adding a new problem: the words would all sound similar. similar. But if you start with
an alphabetical list in English and then translate it
words. Subjects needed approximately 10% fewer
into your target language, you basically create a
repetitions to learn a group of words like “frog, hop,
randomly ordered list anyway. So I put my English
slimy, pond, croak, and green,” when compared
word list in alphabetical order, translated it into
with “cloud, erase, social, office, lose, and risky“:
in the same category, like sweater, shirt, jacket,
Learning related words – words that form
stories – worked even better than totally random
Hungarian, and learned that list. In practice, I found that memorizing words was much easier. I stopped getting my greens confused with my yellows (although I still get six confused with seven; I didn’t follow my own advice when it came to numbers, and Hungarian’s six and seven – hat and hét – are extremely similar looking).
Alphabetical lists are also a lot easier to use;
I could just skim through a Lonely Planet Phrasebook, circle my A-words, then circle my B-words, and after 30 minutes, I had good translations for every word in my list. As such, I decided to supply
Why? When you learn related words, they
an alphabetical list in my book and added an alphabetical list to my website.
form close associations with each other – frog con-
help you remember the cluster of words later.
nects with green and pond. These associations will
But alphabetical and random orders aren’ aren’tt
an especially satisfying way to learn (“I learned
This happened with your three French fruits
10 random words today” is not as rewarding as
– pomme, poire and pêche – too, but in that case,
“I learned all the fruits today!”), and fortunately,
the words were so similar that they interfered with
they’re not our only options. In one of the earliest
each other; you couldn’t remember which was
studies, researchers tried out groups of words that
which.
shared the same theme. These are words that tell a story – sweater sweater,, wool, navy blue, striped, changing
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In our frog story, however, the words are all diff erer-
website and in Chapter 4 of the book.2 Learn each
ent enough that you won’t have trouble confusing
of your words individually, on its own terms. Play
them, and so the net result is a set of words that’s
Spot-the-Diff erences erences with Google Images and dis-
easier to remember. These sets of words can also
cover what makes French grenouilles diff erent erent from
provide you with the sense of accomplishment
English frogs. Find personal connections for vert
that’s missing from random or alphabetical lists (“I learned the slimy-green-frog story today!”). This
(green) and use mnemonics to remember the genders of your étangs (ponds). This process will build
makes the learning process more fun, which makes
up memorable associations within each word, and
you more likely to stick with it.
make those words much easier to recall long term. By virtue of the fact that you’re learning words like woman at the same time as you’re learning to wear
What’s this list and how do I use it?
and skirt, you’ll nd that those words stick even bet-
This is the exact same list of 625 words that
ter, because they’ll naturally form associations with
I provide in Appendix 5 of the book and on my website. The primary diff erence erence is that I’ve grouped
each other. Those associations will be further reinforced by the illustrations on top of each page.3 All
those words into 89 little stories that will help build
in all, this word list will help you learn your rst 625
associations between those words and make them
words faster, and make that process substantially
faster to memorize, easier to retain long term, and
more fun. Enjoy!
more fun to study. I’ve also commissioned illustrations of each of those stories to further reinforce the associations between the words (and to make the
4 Sources for further reading
word lists much more pleasant to use).
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new words in semantic sets versus semantically
To T o save you some time time,, I’ve also commi commission ssioned ed
unrelated sets (Erten, 2008)
professional translators to go through the 625 word lists and give you good, common translations for
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each word, accurate phonetic transcriptions, gen-
Semantic category eff ects ects in second language word learning (Finkbeiner, 2003)
der and/or counter words (when appropriate to the
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language) and added commentary when there are
The negative eff ects ects of learning words in semantic sets: A replication (Waring 1997)
a few diff erent erent translations that could be used for a
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given English word.
Eff ects ects on vocabulary acquisition of presenting
The eff ects ects of semantic and thematic clustering on the learning of second language vocabulary
Use this list in the exact same way you’d use
(Tinkham, 1997)
a random or alphabetical list, as I describe on my 2 If you’re using Anki, you’ll nd a guide to the ashcards you’ll be using here: hp://uent-forever.com/gallery/simple-word-ashcards 3 Remember, you’ll be playing Spot-The-Dierences and nding your own illustraons for each word in this list. The illustraons you’ll nd throughout this list are only here to help reinforce the associaons between your words and make them easier to remember. 4 I’ll try to keep updated, non-pay walled links to these arcles on this page: hp://uent-forever.com/ecient-way-to-learn-vocabulary
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Your First 625 Words
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earth – sky – up – moon – 1 – white – dot – star
©2014 Michele Czajkowski
Friday – waiter – to stand – back (body) (b ody) – pain
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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to count – 101 – young – dog – park – to jump
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
spring – September – 20 – shallow – river ice – to melt
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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verb
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
to kiss – neck – to touch – body – sex (the act) marriage
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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Janu Ja nuar ary y – 1s 1stt – ne new w – sp spor ortt – exer exerci cise se – he heal alth thy y
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
5 – foot – short shor t (vs tall) – woman – to wear ear – ring – tight – skirt
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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deaf – parent (= mother/father) – loud telephone – baby – to cry cr y – tear (drop)
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
dark – theater – king – to love – 1001 – night
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noun
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Winter – 2nd – August – to walk – cold – north town – rain – wet – gray
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to buy – gift – bicycle bic ycle – it – money
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clothing – store/shop – sign – to sell long – loose – pants – pocket – price – 80
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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70 – million – year – old (vs new) – hard – stone mountain – to fall – dead
©2014 Katie Tiedrich
adjective
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truck – tire – ground – to carry – weight
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
0 – curved – circle – number
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December – warm – beach – sand – island – heaven
©2014 Michelle Czajkowski
pig – 4 – leg – dirty – to dig – soil/earth to eat – corn – plant
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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family – to sit – down – glass – bottom – boat camera – photograph – sea
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
artist – copper – tool – beautiful – clay – lamp – 30 centimeter – tall
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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cheap – hotel – 7 – day – plastic – bed
©2014 Chris Jones
court – lawyer – quiet – voice – billion dollar – contract – to sign
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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evening – 11 – 15 – home – lock lo ck – to sleep
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heart – disease – doctor – to push – needle medicine – alive
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cat – to follow – 3 – blind – mouse
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paper – letter – bank – manager – job – yes happy – man
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you (plural) – 8 – chair – restaurant – narrow table – dinner – wine – chicken – soup – spoon
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
31 – date – May – snow – shoes – to go – forest wind – to shake – thin – leaf
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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wife – small/little – diamond – wedding – dress Sunday – to throw – rice
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
June – Thursda Thursday y – 2 – team team – 22 – playe playerr – foot ball – fan
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to beat – horse – strong – animal – to pull heavy – box
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
clock – 9 – 40 – morning – sun su n – light – coffee nose – to smell
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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front – bathroom – window to see – eye – garden
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
to catch – 6 – kilogram – ugly – flat – fish
©2014 Der-shing Helmer
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you (singular) – to learn – 10 – finger – computer program (computer) – technology
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
I – to cook – egg – breakfast – kitchen – good cup – orange – juice
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train station – drug – to pay – prison adult – 12 – month
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
102 – temperature – hot – dry – Summer sweat – February – pool
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
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nature – to sing – yellow – bird – wing – tree wood – thick – root
©2014 Jess Fink
13 – floor – building – to pass by – death
©2014 Christopher Hastings
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to draw – pen – image – to hang – wall – art
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
18 – hole – game – to play – green – yard – to lose
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big/large – hand – male – movie – actor
©2014 Zach Weiner
boy – piece – lemon – sugar su gar – cake fork – plate – 17 – April
©2014 Michelle Czajkowski
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Wednesday – market – food – lunch bread – beef – banana
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
shoulder – bag – left – side – to lift
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she – to lie down – bedroom – ceiling – fan – air time – 16 – afternoon
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
plane – (train) ticket – inside – airport straight – back (direction)
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cell phone – network – 90 – minute to call – friend – to laugh
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
sister – to swim – lake – water
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neighbor – to build – 81 – square – meter house – orange – paint
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
brother – 60 – second – high – hill race (sport) – to run – fast
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president – to win – election – Tuesday Tuesday November – 3rd
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Saturday – bar – 21 – beer – bottle – bad student – university
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race (ethnicity) – skin – color human – (≠ animal) – to fight – sad
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nice – secretary – outside – office bus – 62 – library – card
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light (vs dark) – blue – shirt – police – gun to shoot – murder
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Teacher – school – 50 – half – 100 – to teach child (= boy/girl) – pencil – note
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girl – dream – to smile – queen q ueen – sex (gender) female – gold – head – rich
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author – 52 – week – to write – 1000 page – book
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club – slow – music – to listen (music) instrument (musical)
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south – west – location – 51 – space (outer space) – to fly
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Monday – train – 82 – east – direction – poor mother – to work – city
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science – magazine – brain – to think nuclear – heat – energy
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91 – gasoline – engine – car – transportation to drive – bridge – to turn – right – to stop
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72 – hour – to clean – coat – blood – stain expensive – bill
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low – valley – farm – to feed – cow – milk to mix/stir – cheese
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we – 4th – July – to hear (a sound) to explode – red
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husband – face – beard b eard – 10000 short (vs long) – black – hair
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lip – tooth – to speak/say consonant – sound
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14 – 92 – to nd – country – deep – ocean wave – no – map – edge – world
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to taste – salt – oil – pork – apple
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61 – street/road – corner – church – priest – to marry
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grandfather – hat – suit – weak – knee to pray – God – peace
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newspaper – reporter – attack – army metal – ship – to burn – 19 – 41 – war
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silver – material – laptop – to close
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October – 5th – seed – to grow – pink flower – to cut
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Fall – season – March – camp – daughter to wake up – soft – grass – toe
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key – apartment – door – 111 – they – to live
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roof – old (vs young) – sick – grandmother to wash – soap – clean
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famous – band – top – radio – song 100000 – person – crowd – to dance
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he – mean – to kill – son – knife hell – fire – religion
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71 – victim – poison tea – to die
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patient – injury – to break – arm – bone hospital – room – 42
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to bend – tongue – to open mouth – vowel
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110 – pound – light (vs heavy) – soldier brown – dust dus t – pattern – T-shirt T-shirt
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father – to watch watch (TV) (T V) – 32 – inch – television wide – screen – to drink – cool – beverage
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The 625: In Alphabetical Order
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Your first 625 (In Alphabetical Alpha betical Order) The first entries for each letter are in bold.
actor adjective adult
black blind (adjective) blood
clay clean (adjective) clean (verb)
disease doctor dog
afternoon air airport alive animal apartment apple April arm army art artist
blue boat body bone book bottle bottom box (noun) boy brain bread break (verb)
clock close (verb) clothing club (the location) coat (noun) coffee cold color (noun) computer consonant contract (noun) cook (verb)
dollar door dot down draw (verb) dream (noun) dress (noun) drink (verb) drive (verb) drug (noun) dry dust (noun)
attack (noun) August author (noun) baby back (body) back (direction) bad bag (noun) ball banana band (music) bank bar (location)
breakfast bridge (noun) (noun) brother brown build (verb) building burn (verb) bus buy (verb) cake call (verb) camera camp (noun)
cool (adjective) copper corn corner (noun) count (verb) country (USA, Spain) court cow crowd (noun) cry (verb) cup curved cut (verb)
ear Earth east eat (verb) edge egg eight eighteen eighty election electronics eleven energy
bathroom beach beard beat (verb) beautiful bed bedroom beef beer bend (verb) beverage bicycle
car card carry (verb) cat catch (verb) ceiling cell phone centimeter chair (noun) cheap cheese chicken
dance (verb) dark date (May 7) daughter day dead deaf death death December deep diamond die (verb)
engine evening exercise (noun) expensive explode (verb) eye (noun) face (noun) fall (season) fall (verb) family famous fan (electric)
big/large bill (noun) billion bird
child church circle (noun) city
dig (verb) dinner direction dirty
fan farm(sport) (noun) fast father
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February feed (verb) female fifteen fifth (5th) fifty fight (verb)
hair half hand hang (verb) happy hard hat
kitchen knee knife lake lamp laptop laptop laugh (verb)
million minute mix/stir (verb) Monday money month moon
find (verb) finger fire (noun) first (1st) fish (noun) five flat (adjective) floor flower fly (verb) follow (verb) food foot (body part) foot (measurement) (measurement) forest fork forty four fourteen fourth (4th) Friday friend front game garden
he head healthy hear (a sound) heart heat (noun) heaven heavy hell high hill hole horse hospital hot hotel hour house human hundred husband I ice image inch
lawyer leaf learn (verb) left (direction) leg lemon letter library lie down (verb) lift (verb) light (/dark) light (/heavy) light (noun) lip listen (music) (verb) location lock (noun) long loose lose (verb) loud love (verb) low lunch magazine
morning mother mountain mouse mouth movie murder (noun) music narrow nature neck needle neighbor network new newspaper nice night nine nineteen ninety no north nose note (on paper)
gasoline gift girl glass go (verb) God gold good grandfather grandmother grass gray green ground grow (verb) gun
injury inside instrument (musical) island it January job juice July jump (verb) June key kill (verb) kilogram kilogram king kiss (verb)
male man manager map March market marriage marry (verb) material May mean (/nice) medicine melt (verb) metal meter milk
November nuclear number ocean October office oil old (/new) old (/young) one open (verb) orange (color) orange (food) outside page pain
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paint pants paper parent park (location) pass (verb) patient (noun) pattern pay (verb) peace pen pencil person photograph piece pig pink plane plant (noun)
rice rich right (direction) ring river roof room (in a house) root run (verb) sad salt sand Saturday school science screen sea season second (2nd)
six sixteen sixty skin skirt sky sleep (verb) slow small/little smell (verb) smile (verb) snow (noun) soap soft soil/earth soil/eart h soldier son song sound s ound
tea teach (verb) teacher team tear (drop) technology telephone television temperatu temperature re ten theater they thick thin think (verb) third (3rd) thirteen thirty thousand
plastic plate play (verb) player pocket poison (noun) police pool poor pork pound (weight) pray (verb) president
second (time) secretary see (a bird) seed sell (verb) September seven seventeen seventy sex (gender) sex (the act) shake (verb) shallow
soup south space (outer space) speak/say (verb) spoon sport spring (season) square stain stand (verb) star stone stop (verb)
three throw (verb) Thursday ticket (train) tight time (noun) tire (of a car) toe tongue tool tooth top touch (verb)
price priest prison program (computer) pull (verb) push (verb) queen quiet race (ethnicity) race (sport) radio rain (noun)
she ship shirt shoes shoot (a gun) short (long) short (vs. tall) shoulder sick side sign (noun) sign (verb)
store/shop straight street/road strong student sugar suit (noun) summer sun Sunday sweat (noun) swim (verb)
town train (noun) train station transportation transportati on tree truck Tuesday turn (verb) twelve twenty twenty – one (etc.) two
red religion reporter restaurantt restauran
silver sing (verb) sister sit (verb)
T-shirt table tall taste (verb)
ugly university up valley
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verb victim voice (noun) vowel waiter wake up (verb) walk (verb) wall war warm (adjective) wash (verb)
watch (TV) (verb) water (noun) wave (ocean) we weak wear (verb) wedding Wednesday week weight west
wet (adj.) white wide wife win (verb) wind (noun) window wine wing winter woman
wood work (verb) world write (verb) yard year yellow yes you (singular/plural) young zero
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The 625: In Thematic Thematic Order
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our irst in Thematic rer with notes: ey ey ateory wors (i.e. wors (i.e. animal) are designated with a little superscript C (ike this ). earn these C
words word by using - other pictures/words on your flashcards (i.e. animal dog, cat, fish...). Check out the pecial cenarios section of the Gallery in the book to see an nd
example, or watch the second half of the ickstarter webinar recordings. asiy onfoune maes (i.e., girl looks like daughter) are designated with an asterisk (ike this this). hese are groups of words that will use very similar images (girl/daughter, marriage/wedding). marriage/weddi ng). earn these words by adding a personal touch (i.e., the name of a daughter you might know) or an additional word or two in your target language (i.e., daughter might might go with mother/father ). ). gain, see the pecial cenarios section of the nd
Gallery for examples, or watch the ickstarter webinar. nima: dog, cat, fish, bird, cow, pig, mouse, horse, wing, animal C
Transortation: train, plane, car, truck, bicycle, bus, boat, ship, tire, gasoline, engine, (train) ticket, transportation C
ocation: city, ocation: city, house, apartment, street/road, airport, train station, bridge, hotel, restaurant, farm, court, school, office, room, town, university, club, bar, park, camp, store/shop, theater, library, hospital, church, market, country (U, France, etc.), building, ground, space (outer space), bank, location C
othin: hat, othin: hat, dress, suit, skirt, shirt, -shirt, pants, shoes, pocket, coat, stain, clothing C
oor: red, green, blue (light/dark), yellow, brown, pink, orange, black, white, gray, color C
eoe: son*, daughter*, mother, father, parent ( mother/father), baby, man, woman, brother*, sister*, family, grandfather, grandmother, husband*, wife*, king, queen, president, neighbor, boy, girl, child ( boy/girl), adult ( man/woman), human ( animal), friend (dd a friends name), victim, player, fan, crowd, person C
ob: eacher, ob: eacher, student, lawyer, doctor, patient, waiter, secretary, priest, police, army, soldier, artist, author, manager, reporter, actor, job C
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Society: religion, Society: religion, heaven, hell, death, medicine, money, dollar, bill, marriage*, wedding*, team, relationship, race (ethnicity), sex (the act), sex (gender), murder, prison, technology, energy, war, peace, attack, election, magazine, newspaper, poison, gun, sport, race (sport), exercise, ball, game, price, contract, drug, sign, science, God rt: band, song, instrument (musical), music, movie, art eeraes: coffee, tea, wine, beer, juice, water, milk, beverage C
oo: egg, cheese, bread, soup, cake, chicken, pork, beef, apple, banana, orange, lemon, corn, rice, oil, seed, knife, spoon, fork, plate, cup, breakfast, lunch, dinner, sugar, salt, bottle, food C
ome: table, chair, bed, dream, window, door, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, pencil, pen, photograph, soap, book, page, key, paint, letter, note, wall, paper, floor, ceiling, roof, pool, lock, telephone, garden, yard, needle, bag, box, gift, card, ring, tool ectronics: clock, ectronics: clock, lamp, fan, cell phone, network, computer, program (computer), laptop, screen, camera, television, radio oy: head, neck, face, beard, hair, eye, mouth*, lip*, nose, tooth, ear, tear (drop), tongue, back, toe, finger, foot, hand, leg, arm, shoulder, heart, blood, brain, knee, sweat, disease, bone, voice, skin, body Nature: sea*, ocean*, river, mountain, rain, snow, tree, sun, moon, world, Earth, forest, sky, plant, wind, soil/earth, flower, valley, root, lake, star, grass, leaf, air, sand, beach, wave, fire, ice, island, hill, heat, nature C
Materias: glass, metal, plastic, wood, stone, diamond, clay, dust, gold, copper, silver, material C
MathMeasurements: meter, centimeter, kilogram, inch, foot, pound, half, circle, square, temperature, date, weight, edge, corner Misc Nouns: map, Nouns: map, dot, consonant, vowel, light, sound, yes, no, piece, pain, injury, hole, image, pattern, noun , verb , adjective C
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C
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Use these last three ou er adete as adete as labels to help distinguish between very
similar-looking similar-lookin g words (i.e., to de er death ou dead adete) adete)
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Directions: top, bottom, side, front, back, outside, inside, up, down, left, right, straight, north, south, east, west, direction C
Note
ou may not find all of these in your glossary, and you may have trouble finding pictures
even if you do. hats fine. kip them for now, or use my collection of images for directions and prepositions at Fluent-Forever.com/ppendix Seasons: ummer, pring, Winter, Fall, season C
Numbers: , Numbers: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , million, billion, , , , , , number st
Note
nd
rd
th
th
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f you search for a number uo oe do to tre three youll three youll find pictures of
objects ( apple, monkeys, etc.). his usually works until . hen search for the digits (, , ). oull find colorful numerals, address signs, etc. Use these images (picture of hotel room ) instead of text () these pictures easier to remember and they dont get mixed up as easily. Months: anuary, Months: anuary, February, arch, pril, ay, une, uly, ugust, eptember, ctober, ovember, ecember Note
oull usually find pictures of holidays and weather. dd in the number of each month (-
) to get more specific. Days of the week: onday, week: onday, uesday, Wednesday, hursday, Friday, aturday, unday Note
oull usually find pictures of people going to work on ondays and partying on
Fridays/aturdays, Fridays/atu rdays, etc. o get more specific, use an image of a weekly calendar with weekends greyed out and indicate which day you want. have an English-free one at FluentForever.com/ppendix.. Forever.com/ppendix Time: year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, morning, afternoon, evening, night, time C
Note
oull find pictures of clocks and calendars. f needed, define each time division in terms of
another time division, i.e. x muto ( (ora ora), ), ora ora x (muto (muto ont worry about plural forms (you dont need the word for minutes yet) Verbs: work, play, walk, run, drive, fly, swim, swim, go , stop, stop, follow, think, speak/say, eat, drink, kill, die, smile, laugh, cry, buy*, pay*, sell*, shoot(a gun), learn, jump, smell, hear* (a sound), listen* C
(music), taste, touch, see (a bird), watch (), kiss, burn, melt, dig, explode, sit, stand, love, pass
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by, cut, fight, lie down, dance, sleep, wake up, sing, count, marry, pray, win, lose, mix/stir, bend, wash, cook, open, close, write, call, turn, build, teach, grow, draw, feed, catch, throw, clean, find, fall, push, pull, carry, break, wear, hang, shake, sign, beat, lift Note
For verbs, youll probably need to learn your languages word for verb and add it to any
verb that could masquerade as a noun (to ( to vs vs a a ). ). give you guidelines for this in the pecial cenarios section of the books Gallery, or in the discussion of flashcards at the end of the ickstarter webinar recording. ecties: long, short (vs long), tall, short (vs tall), wide, narrow, big/large, small/little, slow, fast, hot, cold, warm, cool, new, old (new), young, old (young), good, bad, wet, dry, sick, healthy, loud, quiet, happy, sad, beautiful, ugly, deaf, blind, nice, mean, rich, poor, thick, thin, expensive, cheap, flat, curved, male, female, tight, loose, high, low, soft, hard, deep, shallow, clean, dirty, strong, weak, dead, alive, heavy, light (heavy), dark, light (dark), nuclear, famous Note
For a few of these adjectives, you may need to learn your languages word for adjective
and add it in cases of ambiguity (i.e., to ea vs ea vs a ea room). ronouns: , you (singular), he, she, it, we, you (plural, as in yall), they. Note
ake sure you read about these in your grammar book before adding them. anguages
divide their pronouns into many categories. ungarian, for instance, has words words for you (singular informal, singular formal (for acquaintances), acquaintances), singular official (for teachers, policemen, bureaucrats), plural informal, etc.), and depending upon how you count, apanese either has o o pronouns or to to of of pronouns. Well need to have some pronouns o in in order to deal with grammar ater , so youll want to find at least a few words to refer to yourself or someone else. oull find a good explanation of pronouns (and a list of them) in the beginning of your grammar book. ote that you dont dont yet need hm need hm her h ther et Well get them later, when we discuss grammar. ow do you learn these without translations Use pictures of people pointing at themselves/each other. other. have a collection of these at Fluent-Forever.com/ppendix if your Google mage searches dont turn up anything good. Use these images, and if your language, like ungarian, has different sorts of pronouns for different sorts of relationships (i.e., friends vs acquaintances), then take a few minutes to think of some people youd use these pronouns with. Use their names on your flashcards.
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habillement – magasin – panneau – vendre long – ample – pantalon – poche – prix – quatre-vingts
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
Part of Speech (and gender)
French Word
habillement
m. noun
magasin
m. noun
panneau
m. noun
vendre
verb
long
adjective
ample
adjective
pantalon
m. noun
poche
f. noun
prix
m. noun
quatre-vingts
card. number
Pronunciation in IPA
English Translation
Notes
abijmɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃ pa.no
clothing
1
store/shop
2
sign
3
vɑ̃dʁ lɔ̃ ɑ̃pl pɑ̃.ta.lɔ̃ pɔʃ pʁi ka.trə.vɛ̃
to sell long loose
4
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Familie – sitzen – hinunter – Glas Boden – Boot – Kamera – Foto – Meer
©2014 Sandra Salsbury
German Word
Part of Speech (and gender/plural form)
Familie
f. noun (pl. Familien)
sitzen
verb
hinunter Glas
adverb n. noun (pl. Gläser)
Boden
m. noun
Boot
n. noun (pl. Boote)
Kamera
f. noun (pl. Kameras)
Foto
n. noun (pl. Fotos)
Meer
n. noun (pl. Meere)
Pronunciation in IPA
Notes
ami.ljə
family
zn
to sit
nnt ɡla
down glass
1
bodn
bottom
2
bot
boat
kaməʁa
camera
oto
photograph
m
sea
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