Frequency List?

[El Lobo]

Hi

I have a strategy.

I am attending a pre-intermediate class.

I have purchsed software which will allow me to listen and speak.

My 3rd and final frontier will be to learn vocabulary and for that I would be grateful if I could source a list of the 1000 (or 2 or 3) most used words in the language. I have a technique where I can list them 100 at a time and go across a page hiding the previous column, interpreting them from Spanish - English - Spanish - English say about 5 times.

I'll hit 100 words each day and when I have finished that, I'll do the same until I get to 1000.

Then I'll go back and start again with the first 100 until I have mastered the 1000. Then I'll move on.

So if someone could provide a list of these, with English interpretations, then I would be most grateful.

Gracias!

[Rusty]

Learning vocabulary from lists doesn't make much sense to me, but there are many such lists on the internet.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Spanish1000 (this is a frequency list, and contains 10,000 words)

http://quizlet.com/50590/1000-top-used-spanish-words-flash-cards/
http://wordsgalore.com/wordsgalore/languages/spanish/spanish1000.html
http://www.101languages.net/spanish/most-common-spanish-words/
http://www.englishnspanish.com/learn/words

[poli]

Focus on verbs.
to be able to = poder
to be = ser or estar
to want = querer
there are/is = hay (the verb haber)
to have = tener
to go = ir
You may want to master the tenses of all these verbs.

The nouns are pretty easy because many of them have the same roots as English nouns.

[El Lobo]

Thanks folks.

Over the past few weeks I have learned the present tense conjugations of the top 25 ar verbs, the top 25 er verbs and the top 25 ir verbs.

I understand them and have reviewed the other moods so know what I have to learn.

My strategy now is to get a vocabulary. I reckon I will know the top 1000 words in about 3-4 weeks.

From there, I can start reading newspapers etc.

All the while I will be attending a class and listening to this listening / speaking only software.

Since I posted above, I have broken the top 1000 words from wiktionary onto 20 no. 50 word tables. This is just an element of my approach and will hopefully provide a good base.

Thanks though - full steam ahead. I know it may take me a year to have any conversational Spanish, but I will keep plugging away.

Gracias
El Lobo :)