jansegersYou're absolutely right ...
How to learn any language in six months
Chris Lonsdale | TEDxTalk LingnanUniversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
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The absolute minimum seems to be the 120 word survival vocabulary
English Language Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. This article presents a language syllabus containing approximately 120 items [based on] analysis of guide books, and personal experience.
Paul NATION & Daniel CRABBE 1991
On the official website of Paul Nation you find his survival vocabulary list for Italian
(and for several other languages)
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation
Italian survival vocabulary pdf
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/publications/paul-nation/survival-italian.pdf
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The second round of vocabulary is the old 400 Babel Fish word list
http://web.archive.org/web/20140215005309/http://fluent-forever.com/the-method/vocabulary/base-vocabulary-list/
[ http://archive.is/XaQuX ]
followed by the new 625 Babel word list
https://fluent-forever.com/the-method/vocabulary/base-vocabulary-list/
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Next level is around 850 words
Basic English by Ogden
http://ogden.basic-english.org/
which should provide enough words to talk in a very basic way about everything
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Next level is the 1500 word level
for example the list of the Voice of America
VoA Simplified English
http://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/about/wordbook/VOA-Special-English-WordBook.pdf
At which level you should be able to express yourself about any subject.
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The 2000 word level of the General Service List (West)
is still considered to be the starting level of autonomous self-progression.
http://www.auburn.edu/~nunnath/engl6240/wlistgen.html
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To ennoy reading it is generally considered one needs to know some 3000 words
and this are the lists you are complaining about :-)
There are two versions both called "the new general service list"
This is one of them:
http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/
There is the Oxford 3000 list and the Webster 3000 list, etc.
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If you don't want to use a dictionary all the time while reading; you'll need up to 7500 - 9000 words
but knowing all these words, don't mean you can really speak the language at all...
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Using the 1500 word of VoA Simplified English actively, is far more important for speaking purposes.
At this same level, there is also Globish by Jean-Paul Nerrière with a slightly different list of words...