Vocabulary
Helpful articles and tips for learning English and Spanish through reading. Strategies, grammar guides, and vocabulary building.
Most Frequent English Words: a Practical Core With Examples
A small English core does a huge share of daily work. Here is a usable high-frequency set, examples for multipurpose words like get and to, and a reading method that makes them stick.
Why a 3000-Word Monthly Quota Is a Myth (Read + Phrases Instead)
You pass Anki reviews, then freeze in a real article. A huge monthly word quota is usually marketing math. Read near your level, save phrases, review lightly, and track finished pages - not a vanity counter.
How to Check Your English Vocabulary Size for B2
You can score high on flashcards and still freeze on a real article. How to check your English vocabulary size on a page you care about, with a practical 15-minute loop.
Paper Vocab Notebooks: When They Break Reading Flow
Full notebook, blank mind when you speak? Paper still helps for deliberate lists. Mid-story stop-and-copy often stalls reading. Three frictions, a fair comparison, and a reading-first capture loop.
Why Spanish Words Fade: Forgetting Curve + Spaced Review
Evening Spanish list, morning blank? See what the forgetting curve actually measured, a simple review ladder, cards vs context, and how Spanish phrases stick better in real sentences.
Passive to Active Vocab: Why You Freeze When Speaking
You follow a series, then blank out in real talk. That gap is usually retrieval and production, not zero knowledge. Here is how to move words from recognition toward use - gently, with sound and phrases.
Polyglot Method: How to Learn Words in Context
Polyglots rarely live in bare word lists. They meet language inside real messages. A practical method with four layers of context and a short daily reading loop.
Top 50 Most Common Spanish Words: a High-Frequency Starter List
These 50 Spanish words are the high-frequency glue that holds sentences together. Here is the list by category, why flashcards alone fail, and how to meet the words in real text.
15-Minute Rule: Daily Vocab Without Free Time
No free evening? Protect 15 minutes a day for interesting reading, a few words in context and a short review. A small daily habit beats a weekend marathon.
Phrasal Verbs in Context: Learn Them from the News
Know look and up, miss look up? A practical news method for phrasal verbs: 2-5 units per article, full sentences, split forms, and a 15-minute weekday loop.
How the MovaReader Language Map Works
The language map is a vocabulary compass, not an exam. Guests see level ranges; your percentage appears after you sign in, pick English or Spanish and mark words you actually know.
How Large a Vocabulary for Reading Comprehension?
Reading comprehension is not "I know 4,200 words in an app." It is how many words on this page you already recognize. Here is how 95% and 98% work - and what to do next.