Why don't language courses get you to memorise vocab starting with the single most used word in the language (determined using some huge corpus) and then just working down the list? They're usually done by theme, so you end up knowing 'purple' or 'ankle' far earlier than needed.
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Replying to @robertwiblin
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@duolingo, at least in recent curricula revisions, the trivial themes serve as scaffolding for grammatical concepts. The groceries unit in
teaches about negation et al:pic.twitter.com/wGsgLgEUUt
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Replying to @maxkriegers @duolingo
We couldn't do this by preselecting common words that aren't around a particular theme?
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Replying to @robertwiblin @duolingo
Good point. If you're learning FR/DE/RU/ES, you might like @Lingvist. They do it by frequency and even let you build custom courses with topics you care about if you pay them.pic.twitter.com/dCcjIriF3g
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