SomeCallMeChris Wrote:I don't think Core5k is at all an unreasonable amount of frequency-list words.
It's true. The reality is you're going to need more than 10,000 words if you want to call yourself fluent. I think its better to get it over with it and get those words into your head so you can move on to reading. Once you can read, you'll learn the usages and common patterns aka the living breathing language.
SomeCallMeChris Wrote:If you feel like you want a more personal connection with your deck...
Make another deck. I have a 10k core deck and a personal reading vocab list deck. The latter has thousands of words that don't even show up in my core deck but I would still consider them fairly common.
