Learning those 800 words first will provide the foundation
They knew lower frequency words but
I would suggest if you learn the 800 most frequent lemmas
Knowing these things give you a foundation –
After nine years of study about half of the students had still failed
The research showed that students knew lower frequency words
A lemma is the simplest form
Students may often really struggle
The inflection refers to how the base word is changed
that will account for about 75 per cent of all of the English language.
to learn the most frequent 1,000 words.
according to its use in a sentence.
they hadn't mastered those most important words.
for which you may be able to learn the lower frequency words.
the basics from which you language learning will develop.
but weren't learning enough high frequency words.
or base form of a word
to learn more than 2,000, 3,000 words after many years of study