Cleartext pulls its 1,000 words from Google’s list of the 20,000 most common, featuring such classics as “you,” “and,” and, of course, “the.”. Cleartext is influenced by the book ...

Each of the 1,000 keys represents one of the most common English words, arranged alphabetically across the five panels. Naturally, that excludes words like "chrysanthemum," but some favorites ...

Last week marked the launch of the 1000 words campaign, an initiative that challenges Brits to build basic proficiency in a foreign language. By Anne Merritt 02 October 2013 • 7:00am ...

Here are 15 basic English words that have remained etymological mysteries. 1. Dog. English has the word hound, which is clearly related to other Germanic words like Hund, ...

It goes without saying that memorising the 1,000 most common words in Lingala, French or Chinese is not going to make anyone a fluent speaker. That would have been an unrealistic goal.