Week 5: High Frequency Words
by Stefania Bufano
This series focuses on Fluent Forever’s alphabetical list of the 625 most commonly used words in any language, presented 10 words at a time with their Italian translation.
“Not all words are created equal: we use certain words far more often than others…We get a lot of mileage out of our most frequent words…With only a thousand words [of your target language] you’ll recognize nearly 75 percent of what you read. With two thousand, you’ll hit 80 percent.”
–Gabriel Wyner, Fluent Forever
Word bank:
| big/large | grande |
| bill (noun) | il conto / una bolletta /una banconota |
| billion | un miliardo |
| bird | un uccello |
| black | nero |
| blind (adj.) | cieco |
| blood | il sangue |
| blue | blu |
| boat | la barca |
| body | il corpo |
Practice these high-frequency words on Quizlet.
Level: Give it a Try
- Un miliardo is a very grande number.
- There are different types of bills. In a restaurant, one says, “il conto
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Thank you for sharing, Stefania!
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