2,000 kata yang menutup ~85% percakapan harian. Sumber: Oxford 3000 + NGSL list. Dikelompokkan per kategori untuk hafal lebih cepat. Plus teknik memorization legendaris.
Riset linguistik menunjukkan: 2,000 kata teratas = 85-90% bahasa harian. Native speaker dewasa pakai ~20,000 kata, tapi 90% percakapan pakai 2,000 inti yang sama berulang.
Hafal 2,000 ini = bisa komunikasi survival level di hampir semua situasi.
Hafal kata terisolasi = hilang dalam 1 minggu. Hafal kata dengan konteks (kalimat, gambar, story) = retention 5-10× lebih kuat. Pakai Anki + sentence mining.
| KATEGORI | JUMLAH KATA | CONTOH |
|---|---|---|
| Verbs (kata kerja) | 500 | be, have, do, go, see, want, work |
| Nouns (benda) | 800 | time, people, year, day, world, family |
| Adjectives | 300 | good, big, new, important, beautiful |
| Adverbs | 150 | very, also, really, now, often, just |
| Prepositions | 50 | in, on, at, to, for, with, about |
| Pronouns | 30 | I, you, he, she, we, they, it |
| Conjunctions | 20 | and, but, or, because, when, if |
| Numbers & Time | 100 | one, two, today, tomorrow, week |
| Body parts | 50 | head, eye, hand, leg, heart |
Algorithm hitung kapan kamu akan lupa kata, lalu show di waktu tepat. 20 menit/hari = 1,500 kata setahun.
Hafal kata dalam kalimat utuh, bukan terisolasi. Konteks bantu otak retrieve. Pakai immersion source: film, lagu, artikel.
Visualisasikan rumah sendiri. Taruh kata di lokasi spesifik. "Apple di pintu, banana di sofa." Recall via spatial memory.
Belajar 1 root + variations. Mis. create → creation, creative, creator, creativity. 1 hafalan = 5 kata.
Banyak English word dari Latin/Greek root. Tahu "bio" = life, "logy" = study → unlock biology, biography, ecology, geology.