A fast language learning method based on top recurrent words
Every language, including the English language is a living entity that is constantly growing and changing, acquiring new words every year. Some of these words may be imported from another language, some may be from the same language but with modified meaning and use like the word cool in English for example, while other words might be completely genuine. This is due to the fact pointed out by Shanon that the combinations of a language alphabet is not fully utilized.
Concerning the English language, it is found that in spite the increasing size of the lexicon, the most frequent words in English remain the same.
Even though, this subject was extensively covered in literature, we made another visit to the topic. Thirty books were taken that cover several subjects. These subjects include: novels, Romans, history, autobiography, psychology, stories, geography, poetry and other topics from news on the Internet.
The total number of words considered exceeded 2.5 million words. Our findings that are listed in the following table agree with previous studies and highlights the prevalence of the most common words of English language.
Total Number of Words= 2,586,473
Table for Selected First Words, their number of appearance, and the percentage of this number as to the total number of words in these books.
From the table it is found that most recurrent 50 words constitute 33% of the English language, While the first 250 words constitute more than 50% of the language.
Among the list of the 100 most frequent words in the English vocabulary are restrictive determiners like definite articles and possessive pronouns as well as prepositions, conjunctions, verbs, helping verbs and a variety of other essential parts of speech.
Similarly, the numbers one through six, which function as nouns, pronouns and adjectives, are included among the 500 most frequent words. Helping verbs also called auxiliaries, which include have, had, has and will, was, is, were, etc., consistently rank among the most frequently used words.
International differences between American English, British English and Australian variations, does not affect the most frequent words in English which are extremely consistent.
The facts described above are utilized to establish a fast learning system for English language. To avail this system, subscribe. You will receive our news letter on what can be called customer designed learning program. The objective is to enable you to acquire the first 1000 words which constitute 66% of the English language over a period of 3 months, divided as to 50 words, 100 words, 200 words, etc. The newsletter will contain the selected top words together with sentences using them and the vocabulary in these sentences.
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Every language, including the English language is a living entity that is constantly growing and changing, acquiring new words every year. Some of these words may be imported from another language, some may be from the same language but with modified meaning and use like the word cool in English for example, while other words might be completely genuine. This is due to the fact pointed out by Shanon that the combinations of a language alphabet is not fully utilized.
Concerning the English language, it is found that in spite the increasing size of the lexicon, the most frequent words in English remain the same.
Even though, this subject was extensively covered in literature, we made another visit to the topic. Thirty books were taken that cover several subjects. These subjects include: novels, Romans, history, autobiography, psychology, stories, geography, poetry and other topics from news on the Internet.
The total number of words considered exceeded 2.5 million words. Our findings that are listed in the following table agree with previous studies and highlights the prevalence of the most common words of English language.
Total Number of Words= 2,586,473
Table for Selected First Words, their number of appearance, and the percentage of this number as to the total number of words in these books.
| Number of Selected First Words | Number of Words in the Subset | Percent |
| 30 | 685383 | 26.50 |
| 50 | 854403 | 33.03 |
| 80 | 996872 | 38.54 |
| 100 | 1063252 | 41.11 |
| 150 | 1177135 | 45.51 |
| 200 | 1257791 | 48.63 |
| 250 | 1318285 | 50.97 |
| 350 | 1410478 | 54.53 |
| 500 | 1509797 | 58.37 |
| 700 | 1606602 | 62.12 |
| 1000 | 1711982 | 66.19 |
| 1500 | 1832929 | 70.87 |
| 2000 | 1920343 | 74.25 |
| 2500 | 1988075 | 76.86 |
| 3000 | 2042203 | 78.96 |
| 3500 | 2086843 | 80.68 |
From the table it is found that most recurrent 50 words constitute 33% of the English language, While the first 250 words constitute more than 50% of the language.
Among the list of the 100 most frequent words in the English vocabulary are restrictive determiners like definite articles and possessive pronouns as well as prepositions, conjunctions, verbs, helping verbs and a variety of other essential parts of speech.
Similarly, the numbers one through six, which function as nouns, pronouns and adjectives, are included among the 500 most frequent words. Helping verbs also called auxiliaries, which include have, had, has and will, was, is, were, etc., consistently rank among the most frequently used words.
International differences between American English, British English and Australian variations, does not affect the most frequent words in English which are extremely consistent.
In addition to the above, it is found that among these 30 books including words that exceeded 2.5 million words a considerable amount of words appeared only once, twice, 3 times, 4 times, 5 times, etc. These words and their frequency is listed in the following table.
Number of Words That appear
Only 1 to 7 times:
Only 1 to 7 times:
appear Only n times | Number of Words |
1 | 24847 |
2 | 8388 |
3 | 4654 |
4 | 3056 |
5 | 2265 |
6 | 1729 |
7 | 1434 |
