So what is word usage frequency? And how can I help you to become a more effective language learner? So I first came across this concept back in 2010, when I came across a book called fluent in tree once by Benny Lewis. So when I came across this book first I was quite challenged by it, it was completely different to what I taught language learning was about and how to approach language learning. In the book, he talked about speaking a language from day one, and I was wondering what the hell is that all about? I didn't know that that was possible.

I at that stage, I gone to university. I was spending I spent about one year in France at that stage, maybe two years, I think in total, I'd never came across this idea. The one thing that made me open to it was the fact that I can remember at one stage living in Luxembourg, most people living or people living there who spoke five languages, children's both five languages. And I was always curious about why they saw that as something normal and natural, whereas if they were in another country, people be wondering how the hell are they Like speaking five languages and thinking that's normal. So that always intrigued me. So I think I was always looking for something to explain that.

So when I read that book, I made a commitment to learn Spanish in Italian within six months. That was my goal at that time. When I made a commitment, I started coming across word usage frequency. So this was the article that I came across the sources there is an article called how many words you need to know to be fluent in Spanish, or any other language and which should you be learning just Google that and you'll find the article. This is the core piece of the article that attracted me. So it says, it gives you a breakdown of the words how many words need to learn to be at different levels in the language.

So as you see here, it's broken down quite well. I was focused on the 2500 words, these constitute those that should enable you to express everything you could possibly want to say, albeit often by awkward circum circumlocutions. That's basically just a way of saying of how we you're expressing herself. So yeah, I focused on that when I saw that document it made it more manageable for me once I saw it the specific number. I reverse engineer the process always said, How many words need to learn per week? I broke the words down into nouns, adjectives, verbs for tenses.

I Oh, yeah. So I basically started Googling what are the 100 most common words in French, and then I started looking at how many of these are nouns, how many these are adjectives? What I'm going to do to give you an example, I'm going to put 50 of the most common words that are used in French. From my perspective, from my experience, that once I found out I'm gonna put you into sentences too, because when it comes to language learning is a lot of it's actually pattern recognition. So when you learn words, within sentence, you're subliminally learning you're taking into Word structure a bit more. I use grammar in a bit different way than I used to use it.

When I was growing up to the education system. I always saw grammar as a way to learn the language before you actually speak. So I taught you need to learn the rules and how things reformed All of this before you begin to speak, now we use it more as a reference point. So when I learned a new language is more pattern recognition, so I learn new phrases, they'll start figuring the language out, I'll start playing with it. I'll use grammar didn't explain why things are done in a certain way as I learned the language and speak, so I use it in tandem. So I'm going to put a document together on the 50 most common words in French, you can use that as an example of how you go about breaking down the language.

So I'd advise googling things like what are the most common words in French, whatever language you're learning, put in 100, the most 100 most common words, start googling things like that. Basically, word is a frequency. This concept will help you to have more fun with the language to start thinking differently or asking new questions having a bit more curiosity a bit more fun with the language and when you start doing this, you start turning it into an adventure. It's that's gamifying the process. I'm going to recommend some tools and the final module will actually help you with this. There's tools out there that make the process a lot More fun and enjoyable when it comes to language learning.

So I hope this is a new concept for you what is the frequency it can be has a potential to be a game changer for you when it comes to language learning if you take on board what it is and you start doing some research bowlers. Thanks for watching next video we're going to talk about verbs. So see you then