How the words we teach English language learners changed

Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed by Guestmodinfo on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:21PM (#49146959)

Please someone tell me where to get those 1 million words in decreasing order of difficulty or ascending order of usage along with their meanings and insinuations

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Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed by stevesimmons on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:26PM (#49146998)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists

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Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed by bilegeek on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:44PM (#49147161)

Also worth going through the references of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

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Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed by WalterBright on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:26PM (#49146996)

Sounds like a job for LLMs.

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Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed by mahdi7d1 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:02PM (#49148274)

Only if you mean llms finding already compiled lists on the internet. Since they would be too inefficient for actually compiling a list themselves.

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