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Don't focus your efforts on the number of words that you know but try to learn them naturally by continuing to read "Le Monde". You'll increase your vocabulary naturally. The words will be firstly learned passively so you will be able to recognise them and after you will be able to use them actively by speaking or by writing. You can still learn artificially with lists, but I think that words are less remembered this way.

Hi Mark, I do languages exchanges and some lessons, record all the new words into your own personal course on memrise and plant 15 words in the morning and 15 in the evening. There's also top 1000, top 4000 word lists on memrise by other users. When you get bored of that you can try books on topics you like. I have a full french beginners cookbook, not because I can't cook, but because I can learn all the vocab while doing something I have to anyway. Creating word clouds from news articles is another visual way of learning the important words. Try copying an article from www.rfi.fr and pasting it into www.wordle.net

Il n'y a pas de "bonne" ou de "mauvaise" façon. Il y a seulement des façons mieux adaptées pour certaines personnes. La meilleure façon pour toi est la façon qui continue à t'intéresser, jour après jour !