“Unlocking Creativity: How the 80/20 Rule Can Transform Your Writing Process”
So if you learned the 3000 most common German words, you’d be able to understand half the words you come across in a typical German document.
In fact, it gets better than that. If you run the calculation out a bit further, you’ll see that by learning just the 100 most common German words, you’d be able to understand about a third of the words you find in a typical German document.
That’s actually pretty amazing. You could learn 100 words in a week. And you’d be able to read a German newspaper and see those words all over the place. Even with that very limited vocabulary, you might be able to get the drift of an article.