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User:Dr.Keith/Basic words

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These are the first words you should learn when learning a foreign language. Use this list as a basis for flashcards. It consists of important words that may not be in the phrasebook, but should be accompanied by the phrasebook if you plan on using the foreign language for hitchhiking (and why not?)

Latin-based languages

  • thanks
  • what
  • to be
  • no
  • I
  • one
  • to have
  • not
  • to go
  • you
  • to know
  • here
  • with
  • to make/do
  • yes
  • hello
  • my
  • to speak
  • to [prep]
  • there
  • thing
  • for
  • want
  • where
  • these/those
  • come
  • your
  • very
  • in
  • when
  • think
  • why
  • bring
  • for
  • name
  • to understand
  • orange [color]
  • to hear
  • left
  • red
  • some-[-body,-place]
  • to walk
  • straight ahead
  • too
  • yellow
  • sixty
  • hard
  • hundred
  • three
  • without
  • soft
  • little
  • five
  • big
  • more
  • thirty
  • difficult
  • seventeen
  • fifty
  • country
  • some
  • street
  • to drive
  • time
  • easy
  • fifteen
  • far
  • thousand
  • forty
  • purple
  • learn
  • sixteen
  • ten
  • six
  • blue
  • eleven
  • day
  • ninety
  • right [direction]
  • thirteen
  • two
  • believe
  • the, a/one
  • eight
  • town
  • to feel
  • person
  • city
  • twenty
  • on/off
  • fourteen
  • time
  • hour
  • four
  • correct
  • nine
  • twenty-one
  • less
  • seventy
  • see
  • minute
  • eighteen
  • nineteen
  • near
  • language
  • green
  • eighty
  • white
  • seven
  • black
  • twelve