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Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2014 02:11:12PM 0 points [-]

Starting with the most common 100 words. These account for 50% of all communication.

This. I don't get why so many language courses teach you (say) the names of a dozen different foodstuffs before teaching you how to say “one of those”. IMO that's silly.