Professor
Stuart
Webb
,
linguist
,
University
of
Western
Ontario
For
language
learners
in
a
foreign
language
____________________
?
so
for
example
if
you
were
learning
French
in
Britain
or
English
in
Japan
,
students
may
often
really
____________________
to
learn
more
than
2
,
000
,
3
,
000
words
after
many
years
of
study
.
So
for
example
,
there
was
study
in
Taiwan
____________________
that
showed
that
after
nine
years
of
study
about
half
of
the
students
had
still
failed
to
learn
the
most
____________________
1
,
000
words
.
Now
they
knew
lower
frequency
words
but
they
hadn't
mastered
those
most
important
words
.
Neil
So
Rob
,
don't
waste
your
time
trying
to
learn
every
____________________
word
.
Professor
Webb
spoke
there
about
research
that
showed
students
knew
lower
____________________
words
but
weren't
learning
enough
high
frequency
words
.
Rob
Right
,
and
frequency
here
means
the
number
of
times
something
happens
?
so
the
important
words
to
learn
are
the
high
frequency
ones
?
and
how
many
are
there
____________________
?
Professor
Stuart
Webb
,
linguist
,
University
of
Western
Ontario
For
example
,
with
English
,
I
would
____________________
if
you
learn
the
800
most
frequent
lemmas
?
which
is
a
word
and
its
inflections
?
that
will
account
for
about
75
per
cent
of
all
of
the
English
language
.
So
that
learning
those
800
words
first
will
provide
the
____________________
for
which
you
may
be
able
to
learn
the
lower
frequency
words
.
Rob
____________________
stuff
.
And
good
to
know
I
just
need
to
learn
about
800
words
?
or
what
he
calls
____________________
.
Yes
a
lemma
is
the
simplest
form
or
____________________
form
of
a
word
.
And
the
inflection
here
refers
to
how
the
base
word
is
changed
according
to
its
use
in
a
sentence
.
Knowing
these
things
give
you
a
foundation
?
the
____________________
from
which
you
language
learning
will
develop
.
