BW2/3  +  463673 Sun, 13 Jan 08 03:20 PM What are your English words that you must know and understand? 1) fall,  2)have,  3)be,  4)reach,  5)run,  6)lead,  7)take, 8)as, 9)race 10)see I've so many but now I just put few there..... How about you? BW2/3 Joined on Sat, Oct 22 2005 Contributing Member 1,283 Carpe diem!!

	Ruslana  +  465372 Thu, 17 Jan 08 10:50 AM What are my English words that I must know?.. Frankly, I have no idea. I just know some words, that's all. Ruslana Joined on Sat, Dec 17 2005 Senior Member 3,671

	Doll  +  465753 Fri, 18 Jan 08 09:49 AM Know "be". English can't be without be. Doll Joined on Sat, Mar 10 2007 Senior Member 2,811

	BW2/3  +  466036 Sat, 19 Jan 08 12:37 AM 11)stand, 12)where, when, who, which, why, what, how, 13)set, 14)settle, 15)in, at, on, with, by, BW2/3

	Philip  +  466397 Sun, 20 Jan 08 02:00 AM I frequent another forum where this type of list would be closed almost immediately.  I see no reason for its being here, either.  Sorry! Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,733 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	BW2/3  +  466407 Sun, 20 Jan 08 02:48 AM I bet if you master the most common words, you will improve your English greatly. Another forum closed because of that, they didn't know what they were doing. Go ahead terminate this post based up what you saw on another forum, it will give me great pleasure to see that. Because of these most common words, almost each of them has many different meanings,  one will improve their English drastically if they fully understand them.  It is from my point of view. BW2/3

	Yankee  +  478158 Mon, 18 Feb 08 12:51 AM How many words do you think would be needed for an "adequate" list, BW2/3? You can google many lists of "the most commonly used words in English". Here is one example: http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl1000_list1.htm The first page of that list claims to consist of the top 250 words. Is that enough in your opinion? What about a list of 1000 words? 3000? I agree with you that knowing the various meanings of words will help yourEnglish. However, there are many other aspects of language that are also important. Mohammad Ahsan Ali gave a very good example of one of those aspects: "I'm fine, thank you.  And you?"  It's very useful to also learn standard collocations, phrases and sentences, for example.  By the way, neither 'fine' nor 'thank' appears in the list of the top 250 words (above). Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,494 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain Vocabulary