A Language Learning Strategy: The survival guide of languages

by Jeremy Jenkins, Susan Jenkins (Editor)

It is said that William Shakespeare had a working vocabulary of around 3,000 words and that the average person today, gets by with 300. This is not the number of words Shakespeare knew, but the average number of words he used on a daily basis. If we can get by with 300 words or less in an average day, and there are 365 days in a year, you should be able to learn the basics of a new language every year by only learning one new word per day. The 300 words we use today aren't going to be the exact same 300 words we use tomorrow. Some words will be the same, and others won't. The question then becomes, which words and phrases will I definitely use every day without fail? This book seeks to pinpoint those words and phrases while weeding out the less useful ones. The goal is to thrive in the new language, but first you must learn to survive.

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 28, 2020