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Learning Strategies #154 - The Easiest Way to Learn Spanish Words: The “Core Words” Method

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

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discover effective strategies and tips for learning Spanish

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Want to boost your vocabulary so you can speak more of the language?

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If you're a beginner, the best way is to focus only on a special set of words, the core words,

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and you'll see why in just a bit.

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But first, if you don't yet have access to our language learning system, sign up for a free lifetime account right now.

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Just click the link in the description to get your free lifetime account.

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What are core words?

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So imagine this.

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You're a beginner.

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You download a vocabulary app and it starts teaching you words like economics, xylophone,

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and zebra.

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If you're a beginner, these are not exactly useful words, right?

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Well, that's the exact opposite of what core words are. And that's just an example of how to learn vocab the wrong way.

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So if you see an app teaching you that run far, far away. Core words are a special set of words all beginners should start with.

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They're words we use most in daily life. Words like I, you, yes, no, this and that.

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And this is where you should start learning vocab as a beginner.

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The top 100 core words make up about 50% of everyday conversations.

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The top 200 core words cover 60 to 70%.

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If you go to 300, that's 80% of everyday conversations. So if you start with the core words first, instead of learning random words, you'll start understanding everyday conversations sooner than later. Even if you don't understand everything and you can only pick out a few words, you're on the right track. So how do you get started learning the core words?

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How to get the core 100 words? This part is for people that are using our learning system.

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With our system, you get the core 100 words for free. Just head to the vocabulary menu on

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our site and click on 100 most common words. And the way it works is you get all the words

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upfront. Each word comes with a picture,

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