2000 Most Common Spanish Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your Spanish Vocabulary with 2000 Spanish Phrases (Spanish Language Lessons Mastery)

Lingo Mastery has embarked on a mission – to make Spanish more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘Learning a new language can be compared to starting to swim as a child; it’s actually one of the best analogies you can make about it. At first, you’ll stand on the shore or the edge of the pool and look at that great mass of liquid, wondering just how you’re going to start. After all, if you don’t get it right, you’ll start drowning and your interest in learning probably won’t last much longer after that. So you wait patiently and lick your lips in anticipation. Finally, you dare to make a move and jump inside. What you do next will decide just what kind of a person you are. I use this comparison because many people are too afraid to dare to jump into that pool and take a chance at learning a new tongue — a language that can open new doors for you in your future and become a tool that you’ll use to communicate with an entirely fresh community. There are over 570 million Spanish (Castilian) speakers in the world; four continents with nations that speak Spanish as a native language (twenty-one nations to be precise), and many of the biggest companies in the world will value a worker that speaks two languages and is able to travel to different places in the world — remember that there is a strong oil and gas presence in Latin America and many of the biggest-paying companies are involved in the extraction and processing of both resources! If you’ve picked this book up, you’re already made good progress in learning the language. This book can give you an incredible tool in learning the Spanish language: vocabulary. Now you’ve just got to learn how to use it.’ The technique is based on a 1964 study - Learning the first thousand (1000) most frequently used words of a language will allow you to understand 76.0% of all non-fiction writing, 79.6% of all fiction writing and an astounding 87.8% of all oral speech. Learning the top two thousand (2000) most frequently used words will get you to 84% for non-fiction, 86.1% for fiction, and 92.7% for oral speech. Learning the top three thousand (3000) most frequently used words will get you to 88.2% for non-fiction, 89.6% for fiction, and 94.0% for oral speech. The specifics of the language are outlined (especially the importance of masculine and feminine) and then the lessons begin. Examples - ‘Mi’ – My - Mi carro está estacionado ahí. My car is parked there. Yo – I - Yo quiero lograr todo lo que me propongo. I want to achieve everything I set out to do. Ya – Already/Now - Disculpa, no esperaba que ya estuvieras aquí. I’m sorry; I didn’t expect you to be here already. Cómo – How - Mi mama quiere saber cómo fue que hiciste este desastre. My mother wants to know how it was you did this disaster. And so it proceeds with one of the more accessible adjuncts to mastering the Sapasih vocabulary in a manner that places words in context and thus – easy to remember! The technique is solid and the lessons well taught. This is a very fine introduction to Spanish, appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, March 18

Good for learners and veteran. Covers almost all aspects of life and has native speakers’ voice.

The book lists 2000 common Spanish words, each one with the English equivalent, a sample Spanish sentence, and the English translation of the sentence. The sample sentences show the words in actual use and the context helps the reader better understand the words. There are also a few swear words in the list, which was surprising to see but interesting to learn anyway. I have some constructive criticisms, though. The conjugated forms of the verbs are treated as separate entries (for example: "tiene", "tienes", and "tenemos" count as three entries; "puedo", "puede", "podemos", "podría" count as four entries). This is fine for learners who do not want to bother yet with learning conjugation rules and would rather brute force memorize the verb forms in the meantime, but I think putting the base form instead would have freed up space to include more common verbs. Or at the very least, group these similar entries together, so readers can see them together and perhaps understand the conjugation that way.

If you're comfortable highlighting and creating flashcards in the Kindle app, this book will be a solid investment. I would not recommend it if you are just starting to learn Spanish, however. "2000 Most Common..." is for those who have had a general introduction to the basic grammar and know at least the general structure of Spanish. That is fairly easy to obtain online with free YouTube sites like YouStudySpanish, etc.

I'm sorry, language pilgrim, this is (almost surely) not the book you're looking for. Word lists can mean a lot, but when they say, "in context," you had better ask what context that is. In this case, we're talking about a context where "Jack" is more common than Maria or Juan, and "Carlitos" is more common than Carlos. Of course, another question is "what is a word." In this case, "va" is a different word than "ir", and "vayase" is a word, and actually more "common" than "vaya." [Grammar explanation: "va" is the third person singular present form of the verb "ir", "vaya" is the command or subjunctive form of the same, and "se" is the third person singular reflexive pronoun, which when appended to the verb "vaya" makes it literally "go yourself," more like "get out of here," or even perhaps a very mild form of "f... you." Here is a bit of a technical understanding as to how this can happen. First, begin with a specific corpus--body of text. Based on the description and the word lists, this is probably the subtitles of a movie or movies used in some curriculum, not otherwise specified in this book. Second, use as your definition of a word any collection of letters with a space or punctuation to the left and the right. Third, run this list through a computer and sort by frequency. Fourth, provide an English "gloss" and one or two Spanish examples of usage in context. These may have been provided by a language teacher somewhere or from a list available online, of which there are many. So, if you happen to be hearing the same body of text, this may be very helpful. If this body of text is representative, or you are happening upon it in your natural order of exploring the language, this may also be helpful. And finally, there is nothing wrong with another word list, since there is no bad way to learn more language. There may even be someone out there who actually knows 2000 words of Spanish, as defined above, and these are exactly those words. To its credit, let me add that when I just seached for "most common Spanish words," I got a number of word lists, some of which were far more bizarre than this one. It seems to be a current language learning thing. Aside from a few swear words (which are no doubt common ones!) and those funky common names, the first thousand words in the list were all very common words, although they didn't begin with words like "el," "los,", "la", and "las," "que", "a", "en," and so forth, which are clearly among the very most common words in a language like Spanish, so someone must have excluded them from this list using some criteria. [English explanation: the four forms of "the," and three very common prepositions, and, no, I didn't base this on any corpus, though a quick check of CREA: El Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual shows these are seven of the top 11. And, yes, that's a real thing!] PS In case you're wondering, the first form of "ir" in the CREA list is "va" at 161, second is "fueron" at 180, and "ir" itself shows up at 426 :-). The first name is Jack...oh, I mean Jose, followed by Maria.

If your learning Spanish, it’s a good purchase

I can speak Spanish now with this book, very easy to read English

I learn language by list of frenquence words like this book, and I use also the app anki, it's the best app to learn lamguage, therefore, I need copy the sentence and put in the anki, the problem is the limit of copy in this book. For this reason, I didn't like this book.

I bought it because I assumed it'll do the job, but it's embarrassingly bad. There are some mistakes, but also there are names from time to time, or often you'd see the same verb in different forms. On top of that you'd find words in singular or plural like "problem" and "problems". There's no explanation on how to pronounce some of them, the only good thing in this book is that you have example sentences but when everything else is bad, then this is not relevant. Plus it's a digital book printed by Amazon so even the book print looks trash. Instead buy yourself Frequency Dictionary and you'll have something very professional that you'll use for many years on. Pay more and get way more rather than buying this book and being embarrassed to lend it to anyone. It won't help you with anything!

This book details 2000 words that it is saying are the most common in Spanish. I don't know every word in here, but there is a lot of Spanish words that I have heard off that are covered. The book states that if the words have been learned, the learner would have increased their understanding of non-fiction works to 84%, fiction to 86.1%, and oral speech to 92.7%. The way the book is laid out is that it gives the word a number and then displays the Spanish word alongside the English translation. I liked the example sentences, which were given in Spanish and in English as it shows how they relate. A couple of examples are: 19- Con – With Por favor, me da una hamburguesa con queso y papas fritas. Give me a cheeseburger with fries, please 1048- Ventana – Window ¡Me vas a tener que pagar la ventana tras romperla! You’re going to have to pay the window you broke! 1587- Recordar – Remember ¿Cómo no voy a recordar esos momentos felices? How wouldn’t I remember those happy moments? In example 1587, this isn't a literal translation, and we must not try to translate everything literally, as I would have translated it as "How am I not going to remember those happy moments", however, you would have to take into the context of the sentence into account. Overall I think that the book is good and it can help with your studies