Guides to learning Spanish vocabulary
Answers to the questions the word lists and the test raise, worked out from the data this site runs on rather than quoted.
How many Spanish words do you need?
The first 1,000 Spanish words cover 72% of film and TV dialogue; all 5,000 cover 85%. What conversation, B1 and fluency actually take.
How long does it take to learn 1,000 Spanish words?
Meeting 1,000 Spanish words takes 1,000 ÷ your daily rate. Keeping them takes review: about 6.2 per word over 16 days, from a real schedule.