You're keeping abouta third of whatyou learn.
Here's the one-page sheet that gets the rest back, and the handbook that explains why it works. Same 10 minutes whatever language you're learning, and the ~650 words worth knowing first come in yours.
Two files. The handbook, worked in Spanish, and the word list in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Take more than one.
You're keeping about a third of what you learn.
Here's the 10 minutes that gets the rest back.
Ebbinghaus measured this in 1885. It has been replicated every decade since, most recently in 2015.
The post-lesson debrief handbook
Worked in Spanish · your own language is in the word list
The 10-minute debrief, in 5 steps
A worked example, then the blank sheet
Every study named, none paraphrased
What doing it by hand really costs
Karpicke & Roediger, Science, 2008. Every study cited in the book, in one checkable list.
You're paying full price for 6 words in every 20
Think back to your last lesson, or your last real conversation in the language. Without checking your notes, name 5 new words from it.
Most people get 2, maybe 3. That's not a discipline problem. In 1885 Hermann Ebbinghaus measured how fast memorised material decays and the answer was brutal: most of it gone within days for new, unconnected material. Researchers reran the experiment in 2015 with modern methods and got the same curve.
So here's the uncomfortable maths. You spend an hour, and money if it's a lesson. You learn 20 new words. If nothing brings them back, you keep about 6. The correction that made you go "ohh" at minute 23 is unrecoverable by Thursday.
The fix is 10 minutes and a system, and it starts before any flashcard app.
The finding the whole sheet is built on
Karpicke and Roediger, in Science, 2008. Students learned 40 Swahili-English pairs. Then the researchers changed one thing: what happened after a word was first answered correctly.
Same words. The 36% group ran about 80 more study trials, every one after the word had already been recalled once. The paper reports 36% and 33% for its two dropped-from-testing conditions.
Step 1 of the sheet in the book is a brain dump you write before opening your notes. That's the 80% column, and it's the whole reason the dump comes first. Reading your notes back is the other one.
Every worked example in the handbook is Spanish, and the cover says so. The 5 steps don't change by language. What has to be in yours is the word list, and that's the second file.
Send me the sheet
With the handbook it sits in, and the word list in whichever language you're learning. Free, and you can print any of it.
- No account to make, and no card, ever
- Every study named, with its year, so you can go and check it
- One click unsubscribes, and the files stay yours
Use a real address, that's where the files go.
What's actually in it
It's a workbook. The first 4 pages give you the arithmetic and the whole method, so you can run it after your next lesson without reading the rest. Everything after that is either something you do or something that makes the doing believable.
The bill you're already paying
Learn 20 new words in an hour and keep about 6 of them. The arithmetic, the three numbers behind it, and the whole method in four moves, so you know what you're doing before any chapter starts.
The ten-minute debrief
The product. 5 steps with a time budget on each: brain dump from memory, mine the corrections, list what you reached for and didn't have, schedule all of it, one line to your tutor. A worked example filled in by hand, then the blank sheet, then the checklist. You can run it tonight.
Why ten minutes works
Ebbinghaus measuring the decay curve in 1885, Cepeda and colleagues measuring how long to leave a word before you review it, and Karpicke and Roediger in Science: 80% recall a week later for the group that got tested, about 36% for the group that kept restudying and ran about 80 more study trials doing it.
The words worth the effort
Why frequency order works, the point where it quits being useful, and how to run 10 a day without drowning. One row of the list, turned into one finished card, start to end.
Lessons that hold
Five ground rules to agree with a tutor once: target language only, who takes the notes, recording, what to send beforehand. Plus the message to copy and paste, and how to check they actually did it.
25 lines to steal
The exact things to say in the most expensive hour of your week. Getting corrected more, and more honestly. Mining the words you reach for. Escaping work and the weather. One page to keep open during the lesson.
Anki, done right, and what it costs
FSRS on, the retention setting, the daily caps, and the three-part card the research supports: a picture, native audio, and the word blanked out of a real sentence. Then the hours, counted honestly, in a table.
If you have a date
A trip, an exam, a move. Work backwards: the weekly word arithmetic, where the review load peaks, and what to cut first when you fall behind.
Keep the log
A 24-row lesson log and a capture sheet for the words you reached for and didn't have. Then every study cited in the book, in one checkable list, including the note on the two numbers we couldn't source.
Chapters 4 and 5 assume you're working with a tutor. They're marked, and everything else runs on any conversation you have in the language.
Four findings the whole book hangs on
Lessons fade, fast
Ebbinghaus measured the decay curve in 1885. Most new, unconnected material is gone within days. A 2015 replication with modern methods found the same shape.
Spacing resets the curve flatter
Catch a word right before it slips and it lasts longer next time. A 2006 meta-analysis pooled 317 experiments and spaced review beat massed review in essentially all of them. This is about as settled as learning science gets.
Retrieval beats re-reading
Karpicke and Roediger, in Science in 2008: students who were tested on foreign vocabulary remembered about 80% a week later. Students who kept restudying the same words, and ran about 80 more study trials doing it, remembered about 36%.
Your streak is lying to you
A 400-day streak measures that you opened an app 400 times. Tapping the right tile tests recognition. Speaking to a human needs recall. The book gives you the honest score instead: of the words you learned 30 days ago, how many can you still produce cold?
Every study named in the book is listed at the back with its year, so you can go and check it. More on the research: the science page.
What a week actually looks like
People imagine this is an hour a day. It isn't, and the book is specific about the numbers so you can decide before you start.
Tuesday, 7pm. Your lesson. You've sent one line beforehand saying what you want out of it, which is chapter 4's whole trick. Your tutor takes the notes, not you, so you're actually talking. You record it, with permission, because you will not remember minute 23.
Tuesday, 8pm. The 10 minutes that decide everything. You dump what you remember before checking anything, because pulling it out of your own head is the strongest review you'll do all day. Then the corrections, then the words you reached for and didn't have. Then you card them. Then one line about next time.
Wednesday to Monday. 10 to 20 minutes of reviews a day, first thing, before anything new. Tuesday's cards come back on a schedule that stretches as you get them right. You add 10 words a day from the list if you have room, and skip that on the days you don't.
The last Sunday of the month. 5 minutes. You test yourself on 20 items you learned 30 days ago and write the number down. That number is the only honest measure of whether any of this is working, and watching it climb is the part people say keeps them going.
Roughly 30 minutes on a lesson day, 15 on the others, plus the card-building, which grows with you and which the book counts honestly in the next section.
"Can't I just use a language app for this?"
You can, and plenty of people do for years without being able to hold a conversation. Here's the mechanism, because it's worth understanding rather than taking on faith.
Most apps test recognition. They show you a word and 4 options, or ask you to tap tiles into a sentence. You pick the right one, you feel a small win, the streak goes up. But recognising a word you're looking at and producing it from nothing while a human waits are different skills, and only one of them is conversation.
That's the gap people fall into after months of daily practice: the streak is real, the recall isn't. Chapter 2 covers the evidence, and chapter 8 gives you the log that measures the honest version.
The second problem is that a generic app can't know what you got corrected on last Tuesday. The words worth the most to you are the ones you already tried to say and couldn't. No app with a fixed syllabus has access to those. Your own conversations do, which is why the debrief comes before the word list.
There's a chapter in here that argues against us
Chapter 6 is a full setup guide for Anki, which is free, and which competes directly with the app we sell. It's in the book because it works: FSRS on, the retention setting, the daily caps, and the three-part card format the research supports.
It also counts the hours. Building cards properly, with a picture, native audio and the word blanked out of a real sentence, takes real minutes per card, every week, forever. The chapter puts that in a table and lets the number land. It comes out at 1.5 to 2 hours a week of pure admin, on top of the reviews.
We left the number in because you'd find out anyway, in week 3, which is where most self-built systems quietly die. If those 2 hours sound fine, go and do it by hand. The book gives you everything you need for that, and we'd rather you learn the language than buy our app.
The method was never the hard part. Doing it after every single lesson is.
Who this is for
It's for you if
- You've put real money or real months into this language and it isn't accumulating.
- You take notes you never open again.
- You've tried an app streak and can't produce the words when a human is waiting.
- You have a date coming: a trip, an exam, a move.
- You'd rather run a system by hand than pay for one, at least for now.
It's not for you if
- You want a course that teaches you the language. This organises what you're already being taught.
- You're dabbling. This asks for 10 minutes after every conversation, and it's worth nothing if you run it twice.
- You want passive listening and no admin. Every method in here asks something of you.
- You enjoy tuning your deck settings more than speaking. Chapter 6 will make you sad on purpose.
- You're after a 4-page cheat sheet. This expects to be worked through.
The obvious ones
Is it actually free?
Yes. One email gets you the handbook and the word list, which is its own file in whichever language you're learning. You'll also get a short 5-day course on the science underneath, and one click stops that.
Do I need a tutor for this to work?
For most of it, no. The debrief works on any conversation you have in the language, including a lesson, a language exchange or a call with a relative. Chapters 4 and 5 are the two that assume a tutor, they're labelled, and they read fine as a preview of what hiring one would buy you.
Do I need the Verbamor app to use it?
No. The book is the method run by hand, deliberately. It names the free tools, including Anki, and counts the hours that route costs you. If those hours are the problem, the app is there. The method is the same either way.
What language is it in?
The handbook is in English and every worked example in it is Spanish. The method doesn't change by language: same 5 steps, same 10 minutes, same sheet, and a Portuguese correction goes on the sheet exactly where a Spanish one does. The word list is the part that has to be yours, so it's a separate file and you pick from Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Take more than one if you're learning more than one.
Is it for beginners?
It works from your first conversation and it still works at B2, because the debrief is built around your own gaps rather than a fixed syllabus. The word list is most useful in your first year.
Can I print it?
That's the point. A4, print-ready, and the pages meant for a pen are marked so you know which ones to send to the printer. The debrief sheet is designed to be run once per lesson.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every claim with a study behind it names the study and the year, in a list at the back. Two numbers in the book have no paper behind them and there's a page that says which two.
Why are you giving this away?
Because the method was never the hard part. Doing it after every single lesson is. The book is the honest version of that argument, including the chapter that walks you through setting up a free competitor properly.
The book is the method. The app is the labour.
Every chapter has a note in the margin saying what that step costs you by hand and what Verbamor does instead. The short version: you record the lesson, and the rest happens without you.
It transcribes the recording, pulls out the corrections and the words you reached for and didn't have, builds a card for each one with a picture, native audio and the word blanked out of a real sentence, schedules the reviews so they come back right before you'd forget, and reports your true retention. Same method the book teaches, same research behind it.
The handbook is free either way, and it's complete. If the 1.5 to 2 hours a week is the part that would kill it for you, that's what we sell.
The annual plan starts with 7 days free.
The two things you're actually wondering
“Is this really free, or is there a catch later?”
Really free. No card, no account, no trial that starts counting down. You get both files at full length, and you can print them, keep them and hand them to someone else. We sell a subscription app, and the handbook tells you how to run the whole method without it, including a full setup guide for a free competitor.
“What happens to my email address?”
It gets you the 2 files, then 5 short emails about the research behind them, one a day. After that it goes quiet. We don't sell it, rent it, or pass it to anyone, and there's an unsubscribe link in every email that works on the first click. Unsubscribing doesn't take the files back.
Send me the sheet
It comes inside the handbook, with the word list as a second file. If the debrief sheet is the only thing you ever use, it'll still have been worth the email.
- The handbook, plus the word list in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese
- Print what you want, the pages meant for a pen are marked
- One click unsubscribes, and the files stay yours
Use a real address, that's where the files go.
This is the part that comes in your language
The handbook teaches a method, and a method survives translation: a Portuguese correction goes on the sheet exactly where a Spanish one does. Words don't work like that. So the word list is its own file, and it comes in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, built from that language rather than translated out of another one.
A small set of high-frequency words carries most of what gets said in a real conversation. Learn those first and you stop drowning. Learn them in a random order and you waste months. So the list runs in frequency order, printed in full, at 10 a day: about 9 weeks from the top of the sheet to the bottom.
Next to every word there are 3 empty boxes: seen it, said it, stuck. That's what turns a word list into something useful. Seen it is cheap and means almost nothing. Said it out loud to a human is the one that counts. Stuck is what you tick a month later, when it came back without effort.
It used to be 11 pages in the middle of the handbook, which is where readers put the book down. It's its own download now, so the book stays finishable and the list stays printable.
Spanish 646 words, most common first
The first 150 of them, in frequency order. The download has all 646, with the 3 tick boxes on every row, laid out to print.
| # | Spanish | English | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ir (vamos) | to go | verb |
| 2 | pequeño / pequeña | small | adjective |
| 3 | fácil | easy | adjective |
| 4 | preguntar (pregunta) | to ask | verb |
| 5 | cerrado / cerrada | closed | adjective |
| 6 | decir (dice) | to say / to tell | verb |
| 7 | el agua | water | noun |
| 8 | comer (comen) | to eat | verb |
| 9 | grande | large, big | adjective |
| 10 | triste | sad | adjective |
| 11 | roto / rota | broken | adjective |
| 12 | la ropa | clothing | noun |
| 13 | el café | coffee | noun |
| 14 | sucio / sucia | dirty | adjective |
| 15 | el hospital | hospital | noun |
| 16 | beber (bebe) | to drink | verb |
| 17 | el pelo | hair | noun |
| 18 | el tráfico | traffic | noun |
| 19 | la cocina | kitchen | noun |
| 20 | bailar (bailan) | to dance | verb |
| 21 | la canción | song | noun |
| 22 | la calle | street | noun |
| 23 | el mercado | market | noun |
| 24 | cocinar (cocina) | to cook | verb |
| 25 | hola | hello | interjection |
| 26 | pelear (pelean) | to fight | verb |
| 27 | peligroso / peligrosa | dangerous | adjective |
| 28 | pensar (piensa) | to think | verb |
| 29 | caminar (camina) | to walk | verb |
| 30 | besar (besa) | to kiss | verb |
| 31 | enojado / enojada | angry | adjective |
| 32 | difícil | difficult | adjective |
| 33 | nuevo / nueva | new | adjective |
| 34 | ancho / ancha | wide | adjective |
| 35 | temprano | early | adverb |
| 36 | cuando | when | conjunction |
| 37 | la comida | meal | noun |
| 38 | abierto / abierta | open | adjective |
| 39 | la parada | (bus) stop | noun |
| 40 | él | he | pronoun |
| 41 | viejo / vieja | old | adjective |
| 42 | ellos / ellas | they | pronoun |
| 43 | bueno / buena | good | adjective |
| 44 | eso | it | pronoun |
| 45 | yo (yo) | I | pronoun |
| 46 | el ejército | army | noun |
| 47 | usted | you (formal) | pronoun |
| 48 | el segundo | second (unit of time) | noun |
| 49 | escuchar (escuchen) | to listen | verb |
| 50 | ayer | yesterday | adverb |
| 51 | el abogado / la abogada | lawyer | noun |
| 52 | hoy | today | adverb |
| 53 | ella | she | pronoun |
| 54 | malo / mala | bad | adjective |
| 55 | mañana | tomorrow | adverb |
| 56 | nosotros | we | pronoun |
| 57 | delicioso / deliciosa | delicious | adjective |
| 58 | duro / dura | hard, tough | adjective |
| 59 | el fan | fan (admirer) | noun |
| 60 | el artista / la artista | artist | noun |
| 61 | mismo / misma | same | adjective |
| 62 | disparar (disparó) | to shoot | verb |
| 63 | el menú | menu | noun |
| 64 | diferente | different | adjective |
| 65 | la salsa | sauce | noun |
| 66 | sed (sed) | thirst / thirsty | noun |
| 67 | equivocado / equivocada | wrong (incorrect) | adjective |
| 68 | encontrar (encuentra) | to find | verb |
| 69 | alegre | happy, joyful | adjective |
| 70 | trabajar (trabaja) | to work | verb |
| 71 | hambre (hambre) | hunger / hungry | noun |
| 72 | este / esta | this | adjective |
| 73 | estrecho / estrecha | narrow | adjective |
| 74 | hermoso / hermosa | beautiful | adjective |
| 75 | sonreír (sonríe) | to smile | verb |
| 76 | el sacerdote | priest | noun |
| 77 | la cita | date (romantic) | noun |
| 78 | muerto / muerta | dead | adjective |
| 79 | rico / rica | rich | adjective |
| 80 | el paraíso | heaven | noun |
| 81 | el soldado | soldier | noun |
| 82 | llamar (llama) | to call | verb |
| 83 | el infierno | hell | noun |
| 84 | largo / larga | long | adjective |
| 85 | suelto / suelta | loose, free, untied | adjective |
| 86 | saltar (salta) | to jump | verb |
| 87 | jugar (juegan) | to play | verb |
| 88 | la alergia | allergy | noun |
| 89 | vivo / viva | alive | adjective |
| 90 | correr (corre) | to run | verb |
| 91 | la muerte | death | noun |
| 92 | pobre | poor | adjective |
| 93 | probar (prueba) | to taste / to try (food) | verb |
| 94 | grueso / gruesa | thick | adjective |
| 95 | la empresa | company (business) | noun |
| 96 | sordo / sorda | deaf | adjective |
| 97 | la religión | religion | noun |
| 98 | el departamento | flat / apartment | noun |
| 99 | oír (oye) | to hear | verb |
| 100 | feo / fea | ugly | adjective |
| 101 | derretir (derrite) | to melt | verb |
| 102 | arder (arden) | to burn | verb |
| 103 | ese / esa | that | adjective |
| 104 | delgado / delgada | thin | adjective |
| 105 | cortés | polite | adjective |
| 106 | tocar (toca) | to touch | verb |
| 107 | ciego / ciega | blind | adjective |
| 108 | la reunión | meeting | noun |
| 109 | el autor / la autora | author | noun |
| 110 | joven | young | adjective |
| 111 | el actor | actor | noun |
| 112 | oler (huele) | to smell | verb |
| 113 | grosero / grosera | rude, disrespectful | adjective |
| 114 | colgar (cuelga) | to hang | verb |
| 115 | ruidoso / ruidosa | loud, noisy | adjective |
| 116 | el kilogramo | kilogram | noun |
| 117 | cerrar (cierra) | to close | verb |
| 118 | poco profundo / poco profunda | shallow | adjective |
| 119 | cien (100) | one hundred | number |
| 120 | enero | January | noun |
| 121 | el pollo | chicken | noun |
| 122 | la llave | key | noun |
| 123 | jalar (jala) | to pull | verb |
| 124 | el letrero | sign (posted sign) | noun |
| 125 | el equipaje | luggage | noun |
| 126 | empujar (empuja) | to push | verb |
| 127 | la piel | skin | noun |
| 128 | recto / recta | straight (direction) | adverb |
| 129 | el sueño | dream | noun |
| 130 | el verbo | verb | noun |
| 131 | el sábado | Saturday | noun |
| 132 | el pantalón | pants / trousers | noun |
| 133 | el jugador / la jugadora | player (in a game or sport) | noun |
| 134 | el diente | tooth | noun |
| 135 | la semana | week | noun |
| 136 | octubre | October | noun |
| 137 | cuál / cuáles | which | pronoun |
| 138 | quinto / quinta | 5th (fifth) | adjective |
| 139 | el traje | suit | noun |
| 140 | la relación | relationship | noun |
| 141 | la ubicación | location | noun |
| 142 | el metro | subway / metro | noun |
| 143 | el cobre | copper | noun |
| 144 | el pez | fish | noun |
| 145 | las llaves | keys | noun |
| 146 | estar de pie (está de pie) | to stand (be standing) | verb |
| 147 | el mundo | world | noun |
| 148 | la falda | skirt | noun |
| 149 | el hombre | man | noun |
| 150 | la ciencia | science | noun |
French 628 words, most common first
The first 150 of them, in frequency order. The download has all 628, with the 3 tick boxes on every row, laid out to print.
| # | French | English | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aller (allons) | to go | verb |
| 2 | petit / petite | small | adjective |
| 3 | facile | easy | adjective |
| 4 | demander (demande) | to ask | verb |
| 5 | fermé / fermée | closed | adjective |
| 6 | dire (dit) | to say | verb |
| 7 | l'eau | water | noun |
| 8 | manger (mangent) | to eat | verb |
| 9 | grand / grande | large | adjective |
| 10 | triste | sad | adjective |
| 11 | cassé / cassée | broken | adjective |
| 12 | le vêtement | clothing | noun |
| 13 | le café | coffee | noun |
| 14 | sale | dirty | adjective |
| 15 | l'hôpital | hospital | noun |
| 16 | boire (boit) | to drink | verb |
| 17 | le cheveu | hair | noun |
| 18 | le trafic | traffic | noun |
| 19 | la cuisine | kitchen | noun |
| 20 | danser (dansent) | to dance | verb |
| 21 | la chanson | song | noun |
| 22 | la rue | street | noun |
| 23 | le marché | market | noun |
| 24 | cuisiner (cuisine) | to cook | verb |
| 25 | bonjour | hello | interjection |
| 26 | se battre (se battent) | to fight | verb |
| 27 | dangereux / dangereuse | dangerous | adjective |
| 28 | penser (pense) | to think | verb |
| 29 | marcher (marche) | to walk | verb |
| 30 | embrasser (embrasse) | to kiss | verb |
| 31 | fâché / fâchée | angry | adjective |
| 32 | difficile | difficult | adjective |
| 33 | nouveau / nouvelle | new | adjective |
| 34 | large | wide | adjective |
| 35 | tôt | early | adverb |
| 36 | quand | when | adverb |
| 37 | le repas | meal | noun |
| 38 | ouvrir (ouvre) | open | verb |
| 39 | s'arrêter (s'arrête) | stop | verb |
| 40 | il | he | pronoun |
| 41 | vieux / vieille | old | adjective |
| 42 | ils / elles | they | pronoun |
| 43 | bon / bonne | good | adjective |
| 44 | je | I | pronoun |
| 45 | l'armée | army | noun |
| 46 | tu | you (singular, informal) | pronoun |
| 47 | deuxième (2e) | second | adjective |
| 48 | écouter (écoute) | to listen | verb |
| 49 | hier | yesterday | adverb |
| 50 | l'avocat | lawyer | noun |
| 51 | aujourd'hui | today | adverb |
| 52 | elle | she | pronoun |
| 53 | mauvais / mauvaise | bad | adjective |
| 54 | demain | tomorrow | adverb |
| 55 | nous | we | pronoun |
| 56 | délicieux / délicieuse | delicious | adjective |
| 57 | dur / dure | hard | adjective |
| 58 | le fan | fan | noun |
| 59 | l'artiste | artist | noun |
| 60 | même | same | adjective |
| 61 | photographier (photographie) | to shoot | verb |
| 62 | le menu | menu | noun |
| 63 | différent / différente | different | adjective |
| 64 | la sauce | sauce | noun |
| 65 | assoiffé / assoiffée | thirsty | adjective |
| 66 | faux / fausse | wrong | adjective |
| 67 | trouver (trouve) | to find | verb |
| 68 | content / contente | happy | adjective |
| 69 | travailler (travaille) | to work | verb |
| 70 | affamé / affamée | hungry | adjective |
| 71 | ce / cet / cette / ces | this | pronoun |
| 72 | étroit / étroite | narrow | adjective |
| 73 | beau / belle | beautiful | adjective |
| 74 | sourire (sourit) | to smile | verb |
| 75 | le prêtre | priest | noun |
| 76 | le rendez-vous | date (romantic) | noun |
| 77 | mort / morte | dead | adjective |
| 78 | riche | rich | adjective |
| 79 | le ciel | heaven | noun |
| 80 | le soldat | soldier | noun |
| 81 | appeler (appelle) | to call | verb |
| 82 | l'enfer | hell | noun |
| 83 | long / longue | long | adjective |
| 84 | ample | loose | adjective |
| 85 | sauter (saute) | to jump | verb |
| 86 | jouer (jouent) | to play | verb |
| 87 | l'allergie | allergy | noun |
| 88 | vivant / vivante | alive | adjective |
| 89 | courir (court) | to run | verb |
| 90 | la mort | death | noun |
| 91 | pauvre | poor | adjective |
| 92 | goûter (goûte) | to taste | verb |
| 93 | épais / épaisse | thick | adjective |
| 94 | l'entreprise | company | noun |
| 95 | sourd / sourde | deaf | adjective |
| 96 | la religion | religion | noun |
| 97 | l'appartement | flat | noun |
| 98 | entendre (entend) | to hear | verb |
| 99 | laid / laide | ugly | adjective |
| 100 | fondre (fond) | to melt | verb |
| 101 | brûler (brûle) | to burn | verb |
| 102 | mince | thin | adjective |
| 103 | poli / polie | polite | adjective |
| 104 | toucher (touche) | to touch | verb |
| 105 | aveugle | blind | adjective |
| 106 | la réunion | meeting | noun |
| 107 | l'auteur | author | noun |
| 108 | jeune | young | adjective |
| 109 | l'acteur | actor | noun |
| 110 | sentir (sent) | to smell | verb |
| 111 | impoli / impolie | rude | adjective |
| 112 | accrocher (accroche) | to hang | verb |
| 113 | fort / forte | loud | adjective |
| 114 | le kilogramme | kilogram | noun |
| 115 | fermer (ferme) | to close | verb |
| 116 | peu profond / peu profonde | shallow (depth) | adjective |
| 117 | cent | one hundred (100) | number |
| 118 | janvier | January | noun |
| 119 | le poulet | chicken | noun |
| 120 | la clé | key | noun |
| 121 | tirer (tire) | to pull | verb |
| 122 | le panneau | sign | noun |
| 123 | le bagage | luggage | noun |
| 124 | pousser (pousse) | to push | verb |
| 125 | la peau | skin | noun |
| 126 | tout droit | straight (direction) | adverb |
| 127 | le rêve | dream | noun |
| 128 | le verbe | verb | noun |
| 129 | le samedi | Saturday | noun |
| 130 | le pantalon | pants | noun |
| 131 | le joueur | player | noun |
| 132 | la dent | tooth | noun |
| 133 | la semaine | week | noun |
| 134 | octobre | October | noun |
| 135 | quel / quelle / quels / quelles | which | pronoun |
| 136 | cinquième (5e) | 5th | adjective |
| 137 | le costume | suit | noun |
| 138 | la relation | relationship | noun |
| 139 | l'endroit | location | noun |
| 140 | le métro | subway | noun |
| 141 | le cuivre | copper | noun |
| 142 | le poisson | fish | noun |
| 143 | être debout (est debout) | to stand | verb |
| 144 | le monde | world | noun |
| 145 | la jupe | skirt | noun |
| 146 | l'homme | man | noun |
| 147 | la science | science | noun |
| 148 | l'emploi du temps | schedule | noun |
| 149 | septembre | September | noun |
| 150 | l'épouse | wife | noun |
Italian 623 words, most common first
The first 150 of them, in frequency order. The download has all 623, with the 3 tick boxes on every row, laid out to print.
| # | Italian | English | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | andare (vado) | to go | verb |
| 2 | piccolo / piccola | small | adjective |
| 3 | facile / facile | easy | adjective |
| 4 | chiedere (chiede) | to ask | verb |
| 5 | chiuso / chiusa | closed | adjective |
| 6 | dire (dice) | to say / to tell | verb |
| 7 | acqua | water | noun |
| 8 | mangiare (mangiamo) | to eat | verb |
| 9 | grande / grande | large, big | adjective |
| 10 | triste | sad | adjective |
| 11 | rotto / rotta | broken | adjective |
| 12 | il caffè | coffee | noun |
| 13 | sporco / sporca | dirty | adjective |
| 14 | l'ospedale | hospital | noun |
| 15 | bere (beve) | to drink | verb |
| 16 | i capelli | hair | noun |
| 17 | il traffico | traffic | noun |
| 18 | la cucina | kitchen | noun |
| 19 | ballare (ballano) | to dance | verb |
| 20 | la canzone | song | noun |
| 21 | la strada | street | noun |
| 22 | il mercato | market | noun |
| 23 | cucinare (cucina) | to cook | verb |
| 24 | litigare (litigano) | to fight / to argue | verb |
| 25 | pericoloso / pericolosa | dangerous | adjective |
| 26 | pensare (pensa) | to think | verb |
| 27 | camminare (cammino) | to walk | verb |
| 28 | baciare (bacia) | to kiss | verb |
| 29 | arrabbiato / arrabbiata | angry | adjective |
| 30 | nuovo / nuova | new | adjective |
| 31 | largo / larga | wide | adjective |
| 32 | presto | early / soon | adverb |
| 33 | quando | when | conjunction |
| 34 | il pasto | meal | noun |
| 35 | lui | he | pronoun |
| 36 | vecchio / vecchia | old | adjective |
| 37 | loro | they | pronoun |
| 38 | buono / buona | good | adjective |
| 39 | esso | it | pronoun |
| 40 | io | I | pronoun |
| 41 | l'esercito | army | noun |
| 42 | tu (Tu) | you (singular informal) | pronoun |
| 43 | ascoltare (ascolta) | to listen | verb |
| 44 | ieri | yesterday | adverb |
| 45 | l'avvocato | lawyer | noun |
| 46 | oggi | today | adverb |
| 47 | lei | she | pronoun |
| 48 | cattivo / cattiva | bad | adjective |
| 49 | domani | tomorrow | adverb |
| 50 | noi (Noi) | we | pronoun |
| 51 | delizioso / deliziosa | delicious | adjective |
| 52 | difficile / difficile | difficult | adjective |
| 53 | il fan | fan | noun |
| 54 | l'artista | artist | noun |
| 55 | lo stesso / la stessa | same | adjective |
| 56 | scattare (scatta) | to shoot (a photo), to take a photo | verb |
| 57 | il menù | menu | noun |
| 58 | diverso / diversa | different | adjective |
| 59 | la salsa | sauce | noun |
| 60 | assetato / assetata | thirsty | adjective |
| 61 | sbagliato / sbagliata | wrong, mistaken | adjective |
| 62 | trovare (trovato) | to find | verb |
| 63 | felice / felice | happy | adjective |
| 64 | lavorare (lavora) | to work | verb |
| 65 | affamato / affamata | hungry | adjective |
| 66 | questo / questa | this | adjective |
| 67 | bello / bella | beautiful | adjective |
| 68 | sorridere (sorride) | to smile | verb |
| 69 | il prete | priest | noun |
| 70 | l'appuntamento | date (romantic) | noun |
| 71 | morto / morta | dead | adjective |
| 72 | ricco / ricca | rich | adjective |
| 73 | il paradiso | heaven | noun |
| 74 | il soldato | soldier | noun |
| 75 | chiamare (chiama) | to call | verb |
| 76 | l'inferno | hell | noun |
| 77 | lungo / lunga | long | adjective |
| 78 | sciolto / sciolta | loose, untied, free | adjective |
| 79 | saltare (salta) | to jump | verb |
| 80 | giocare (giocano) | to play | verb |
| 81 | l'allergia | allergy | noun |
| 82 | vivo / viva | alive | adjective |
| 83 | correre (corre) | to run | verb |
| 84 | la morte | death | noun |
| 85 | povero / povera | poor | adjective |
| 86 | assaggiare (assaggia) | to taste | verb |
| 87 | spesso / spessa | thick | adjective |
| 88 | l'azienda | company (business) | noun |
| 89 | sordo / sorda | deaf | adjective |
| 90 | la religione | religion | noun |
| 91 | sentire (sente) | to hear | verb |
| 92 | brutto / brutta | ugly | adjective |
| 93 | sciogliersi (si scioglie) | to melt | verb |
| 94 | bruciare (brucia) | to burn | verb |
| 95 | quel / quella | that (demonstrative adjective) | adjective |
| 96 | magro / magra | thin | adjective |
| 97 | educato / educata | polite, well-mannered | adjective |
| 98 | toccare (tocca) | to touch | verb |
| 99 | cieco / cieca | blind | adjective |
| 100 | la riunione | meeting | noun |
| 101 | l'autore / l'autrice | author | noun |
| 102 | giovane / giovane | young | adjective |
| 103 | l'attore | actor | noun |
| 104 | annusare (annusa) | to smell | verb |
| 105 | maleducato / maleducata | rude, impolite | adjective |
| 106 | appendere (è appeso) | to hang | verb |
| 107 | il chilogrammo | kilogram | noun |
| 108 | chiudere (chiude) | to close | verb |
| 109 | cento | one hundred | number |
| 110 | gennaio | January | noun |
| 111 | il pollo | chicken | noun |
| 112 | tirare (tira) | to pull | verb |
| 113 | il cartello | sign (notice, placard) | noun |
| 114 | il bagaglio | luggage / baggage | noun |
| 115 | spingere (spinge) | to push | verb |
| 116 | la pelle | skin | noun |
| 117 | dritto / dritta | straight (direction) | adverb |
| 118 | il sogno | dream | noun |
| 119 | il verbo | verb | noun |
| 120 | sabato | Saturday | noun |
| 121 | i pantaloni | pants / trousers | noun |
| 122 | il giocatore | player | noun |
| 123 | il dente | tooth | noun |
| 124 | la settimana | week | noun |
| 125 | ottobre | October | noun |
| 126 | quale | which | pronoun |
| 127 | quinto / quinta | 5th (fifth) | adjective |
| 128 | l'abito | suit (formal) | noun |
| 129 | la relazione | relationship | noun |
| 130 | la posizione | location, position | noun |
| 131 | la metropolitana | subway / metro | noun |
| 132 | il rame | copper | noun |
| 133 | il pesce | fish | noun |
| 134 | la chiave | key | noun |
| 135 | stare (sta) | to stand / to be | verb |
| 136 | il mondo | the world | noun |
| 137 | la gonna | skirt | noun |
| 138 | l'uomo | man | noun |
| 139 | la scienza | science | noun |
| 140 | il programma | schedule, program | noun |
| 141 | settembre | September | noun |
| 142 | la moglie | wife | noun |
| 143 | l'aereo | plane (aircraft) | noun |
| 144 | amare (ama) | to love | verb |
| 145 | il dottore / la dottoressa | doctor | noun |
| 146 | perdere (perde) | to lose | verb |
| 147 | fermarsi (si ferma) | to stop | verb |
| 148 | la temperatura | temperature | noun |
| 149 | la bevanda | beverage, drink | noun |
| 150 | il tavolo | table | noun |
Portuguese 642 words, most common first
The first 150 of them, in frequency order. The download has all 642, with the 3 tick boxes on every row, laid out to print.
| # | Portuguese | English | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ir (vou) | to go | verb |
| 2 | pequeno / pequena | small | adjective |
| 3 | fácil | easy | adjective |
| 4 | perguntar (pergunta) | to ask | verb |
| 5 | fechado / fechada | closed | adjective |
| 6 | dizer (diz) | to say | verb |
| 7 | a água | water | noun |
| 8 | comer (come) | to eat | verb |
| 9 | grande | large, big | adjective |
| 10 | triste | sad | adjective |
| 11 | quebrado / quebrada | broken | adjective |
| 12 | a roupa | clothing, clothes | noun |
| 13 | o café | coffee | noun |
| 14 | sujo / suja | dirty | adjective |
| 15 | o hospital | hospital | noun |
| 16 | beber (bebe) | to drink | verb |
| 17 | o cabelo | hair | noun |
| 18 | o trânsito | traffic | noun |
| 19 | a cozinha | kitchen | noun |
| 20 | dançar (dançam) | to dance | verb |
| 21 | a música | song | noun |
| 22 | a rua | street | noun |
| 23 | o mercado | market | noun |
| 24 | cozinhar (cozinha) | to cook | verb |
| 25 | olá | hello | interjection |
| 26 | brigar (brigam) | to fight | verb |
| 27 | perigoso / perigosa | dangerous | adjective |
| 28 | pensar (pensa) | to think | verb |
| 29 | caminhar (caminhar) | to walk | verb |
| 30 | beijar (beija) | to kiss | verb |
| 31 | com raiva | angry | adjective |
| 32 | difícil | difficult | adjective |
| 33 | novo / nova | new | adjective |
| 34 | largo / larga | wide | adjective |
| 35 | cedo | early | adverb |
| 36 | quando | when | adverb |
| 37 | a refeição | meal | noun |
| 38 | aberto / aberta | open | adjective |
| 39 | a parada | stop (bus stop) | noun |
| 40 | ele | he | pronoun |
| 41 | velho / velha | old | adjective |
| 42 | eles / elas | they | pronoun |
| 43 | bom / boa | good | adjective |
| 44 | isso | it / that (near listener) | pronoun |
| 45 | eu | I | pronoun |
| 46 | o exército | army | noun |
| 47 | você | you | pronoun |
| 48 | o segundo | second (unit of time) | noun |
| 49 | escutar (escuta) | to listen | verb |
| 50 | ontem | yesterday | adverb |
| 51 | o advogado | lawyer | noun |
| 52 | hoje | today | adverb |
| 53 | ela | she | pronoun |
| 54 | ruim | bad | adjective |
| 55 | amanhã | tomorrow | adverb |
| 56 | nós | we | pronoun |
| 57 | delicioso / deliciosa | delicious | adjective |
| 58 | duro / dura | hard, tough, rigid | adjective |
| 59 | o fã | fan (admirer) | noun |
| 60 | o artista | artist | noun |
| 61 | mesmo / mesma | same | adjective |
| 62 | atirar (atira) | to shoot | verb |
| 63 | o cardápio | menu | noun |
| 64 | diferente | different | adjective |
| 65 | o molho | sauce | noun |
| 66 | com sede / sedento / sedenta | thirsty | adjective |
| 67 | errado / errada | wrong | adjective |
| 68 | encontrar (encontra) | to find | verb |
| 69 | feliz | happy | adjective |
| 70 | trabalhar (trabalha) | to work | verb |
| 71 | faminto / faminta | hungry | adjective |
| 72 | este / esta | this | adjective |
| 73 | estreito / estreita | narrow | adjective |
| 74 | bonito / bonita | beautiful / pretty | adjective |
| 75 | sorrir (sorri) | to smile | verb |
| 76 | o padre | priest | noun |
| 77 | o encontro | date (romantic) | noun |
| 78 | morto / morta | dead | adjective |
| 79 | rico / rica | rich | adjective |
| 80 | o paraíso | heaven | noun |
| 81 | o soldado | soldier | noun |
| 82 | chamar (chama) | to call | verb |
| 83 | o inferno | hell | noun |
| 84 | longo / longa | long | adjective |
| 85 | solto / solta | loose / free | adjective |
| 86 | pular (pula) | to jump | verb |
| 87 | brincar (brincam) | to play | verb |
| 88 | a alergia | allergy | noun |
| 89 | vivo / viva | alive | adjective |
| 90 | correr (corre) | to run | verb |
| 91 | a morte | death | noun |
| 92 | pobre | poor | adjective |
| 93 | provar (prova) | to taste | verb |
| 94 | grosso / grossa | thick | adjective |
| 95 | a empresa | company (business) | noun |
| 96 | surdo / surda | deaf | adjective |
| 97 | a religião | religion | noun |
| 98 | plano / plana | flat / level | adjective |
| 99 | ouvir (ouve) | to hear | verb |
| 100 | feio / feia | ugly | adjective |
| 101 | derreter (derretendo) | to melt | verb |
| 102 | queimar (queima) | to burn | verb |
| 103 | esse / essa | that | adjective |
| 104 | magro / magra | thin, slim | adjective |
| 105 | educado / educada | polite | adjective |
| 106 | tocar (toca) | to touch | verb |
| 107 | cego / cega | blind | adjective |
| 108 | a reunião | meeting | noun |
| 109 | o autor / a autora | author | noun |
| 110 | jovem | young | adjective |
| 111 | o ator | actor | noun |
| 112 | cheirar (cheira) | to smell | verb |
| 113 | rude / ruda | rude, impolite | adjective |
| 114 | pendurar (pendura) | to hang | verb |
| 115 | barulhento / barulhenta | loud, noisy | adjective |
| 116 | o quilograma | kilogram | noun |
| 117 | fechar (fecha) | to close | verb |
| 118 | raso / rasa | shallow | adjective |
| 119 | cem (100) | one hundred (100) | number |
| 120 | janeiro | January | noun |
| 121 | o frango | chicken | noun |
| 122 | a chave | key | noun |
| 123 | puxar (puxa) | to pull | verb |
| 124 | a placa | sign | noun |
| 125 | a bagagem | luggage | noun |
| 126 | empurrar (empurra) | to push | verb |
| 127 | a pele | skin | noun |
| 128 | em frente (frente) | straight / ahead | adverb |
| 129 | o sonho | dream | noun |
| 130 | o verbo | verb | noun |
| 131 | o sábado | Saturday | noun |
| 132 | a calça | pants / trousers | noun |
| 133 | o jogador | player (athlete) | noun |
| 134 | o dente | tooth | noun |
| 135 | a semana | week | noun |
| 136 | outubro | October | noun |
| 137 | qual | which | pronoun |
| 138 | quinto / quinta | fifth (5th) | adjective |
| 139 | o terno | suit (men's) | noun |
| 140 | o relacionamento | relationship | noun |
| 141 | a localização | location | noun |
| 142 | o metrô | subway / metro | noun |
| 143 | o cobre | copper | noun |
| 144 | o peixe | fish | noun |
| 145 | as chaves | the keys | noun |
| 146 | ficar de pé (fica) | to stand | verb |
| 147 | o mundo | world | noun |
| 148 | a saia | skirt | noun |
| 149 | o homem | man | noun |
| 150 | a ciência | science | noun |
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