Common Spanish words you need to know
Planning a trip to a Spanish-speaking country? Chances are you’ll meet some locals who can speak English. But starting a conversation with them in Spanish will make a huge difference to your traveling experience.
The Spanish language is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and its beauty lies in its words.
The Spanish language is estimated to be made out of a total of 250000 words with the largest Spanish dictionary having over 100000 words. This can seem a really big and frightening number to someone wanting to start learning Spanish, but here’s the good news: you only need to know roughly 5% of the total words to be fluent in Spanish. This translates into knowing only the 5000 most common Spanish words in order to be able to have fluent conversations in Spanish.
What’s even more encouraging is that knowing as little as 100 words helps you understand half of the words in an article or book written in Spanish. Learn the most common 1000 words and you get to a 75% understanding of texts in Spanish. Also, each new word you learn helps you guess the meaning of up to 125 words you have never seen before. This means that knowing only 1000 words helps you guess up to 125000 Spanish words. Doesn’t seem that frightening now, right?