Why I can't speak English Part 2 Why I can't speak English Part 2 This thought blown my mind away for a little and I said to myself, okay, my vocabulary is around 6000 words, but obviously, it includes both most popular words and less popular ones. What if I learn exactly TOP 3000-5000 of the most popular words and will master using them so perfectly so that I don’t need a single second trying to translate the word in my head. I thought this way I could finally have a major progress in the way I speak. This idea deprived me of a sleep. I started gathering the set of Top-5000 most popular words, avoiding 100500% obvious words, like mother, father, cat, dog, etc. Then I made a little test. All words seemed perfectly familiar to me, I needed no time memorizing them, but! When I tried a reverse translation test (from my language to target language), I faced so much troubles with the very easiest words that just completely blown me away. And all this happened with such obvious words that I doubted at first as to whether I need them in my set at all. After this reverse translation test I finally understood that my vocabulary is not 6000 words as I thought before; because when it comes to speaking, vocab shrinks so hard that it can reach roughly a level of 500-1000 words. So, starting from yesterday I learn the most popular words that I knew before, but now I only try to translate from my own language to the target language. And in couple months I’m gonna compare the results. God bless those who managed to read to this point! :)