In the last chapter, we looked at some of the best apps that can help you learn English. We know that learning English can feel like an overwhelming task at times, and that’s totally understandable.

After all, you have to learn and memorize every word in the English language to have “real” conversations… right? While that’s definitely something to work towards, the numbers show otherwise - depending upon your goals, you may find yourself happy hitting, say, the 2500 word mark in English.  Here, we've compiled a list of the 100 most common English words to get you started.
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Nouns

1. time
2. person
3. year
4. way
5. day
6. thing
7. man
8. world
9. life
10. hand
11. part
12. child
13. eye
14. woman
15. place
16. work
17. week
18. case
19. point
20. government
21. company
22. number
23. group
24. problem
25. fact

Verbs

1. be
2. have
3. do
4. say
5. get
6. make
7. go
8. know
9. take
10. see
11. come
12. think
13. look
14. want
15. give
16. use
17. find
18. tell
19. ask
20. work
21. seem
22. feel
23. try
24. leave
25. call

Adjectives

1. good
2. new
3. first
4. last
5. long
6. great
7. little
8. own
9. other
10. old
11. right
12. big
13. high
14. different
15. small
16. large
17. next
18. early
19. young
20. important
21. few
22. public
23. bad
24. same
25. able

Prepositions

1. to
2. of
3. in
4. for
5. on
6. with
7. at
8. by
9. from
10. up
11. about
12. into
13. over
14. after
15. beneath
16. under
17. above

Extras

1. the
2. and
3. a
4. that
5. I
6. it
7. not
8. he
9. as
10. you
11. this
12. but
13. his
14. they
15. her
16. she
17. or
18. an
19. will
20. my
21. one
22. all
23. would
24. there
25. their

If you’re ready to keep going, check out this list with the Top 1000 Most Common Words in English.

Best resources to learn the most common English words

While everyone learns and memorizes differently, there are a few resources that we can recommend to speed up or enhance the process.
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Anki

Anki makes it easy for you to create online flashcards to help you memorize words. You can have it on your desktop, or take it with you on-the-go on your tablet or smartphone by downloading their app.
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Memrise

Memrise is a memorization tool to help you memorize anything with ease, including English words and phrases. In fact, Memrise has dedicated channels that are specifically built for languages like English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and more.
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Learn a Language Challenge
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This is the free challenge we created for you. Every morning, we’ll email 10 of the most common English words (or Spanish, French, etc.) for 100 days. It takes no more than 5 minutes per day to review, and you’ll learn 1,000 of the most common words in 100 days!

That's our list of the most common English words, and the best places to help you continue to learn them! Keep reading and check out Chapter 8 for some English exercises you can do to improve your English.