Have you seen these two lists? 100 most common Swedish words / de 100 vanligaste svenska orden http://smart.fm/goals/294227 500 most common Swedish words (words 100-500) http://smart.fm/goals/451607

Yes, but if you look up a word in a written sentence you will probably have an idea what it means the next time. (and also begin learning what context the word is used in.) Also, you'll need to look up every word at least once anyway, so you might as well do that when reading real sentences. If you know a sentence, you know how to express that thought. If you know a word, you only know that word. Sentences are words stringed together with some grammar, so I think they're more interesting than single words. That's just my opinion though. You probably know best how you want to learn, and Taka already posted the link, so you should check that out if you want the words. http://spraakbanken.gu.se/pub/statistik/PAROLE/ has a few lists that could be useful too. Edit: "I can't agree with this point of view. 25 most common written words in english language make about 1/3 of all written material in english." Sure. So if you know those words you know 1/3 of English...? The "feel" I'm talking about is knowing that it's "building site" instead of "building place", even if the words themselves have similar meanings. Anyway, didn't mean to start an argument, so good luck, again. :)

Rather than learning single words I recommend you look at whole sentences and try to understand what they mean. The words in those lists look like they're compiled from old books, so you should only learn them if you want to sound like an old book. For spoken language in written form I recommend blogs, you can search for interesting stuff on http://www.bloggportalen.se/, for spoken Swedish you could watch http://anytime.tv4.se/webtv/, http://www.tv3.se/play and http://svtplay.se/. For written language you could look for books that have been translated into swedish, and compare them to the originals in your mother tongue (or maybe even English for ease of translation if you don't know any nordic languages). I think that reading a sentence, finding a word you don't know, looking it up in a dictionary (like lexin or http://ordbok.nada.kth.se/) is much better than just learning the word by itself. You will need to read a lot in the language you're studying to get a "feel" for the language anyway, so that's what I suggest you do. Also, you should listen to a lot of Swedish, apparently. Read more about this at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/about/newspubs/news/ViewNews.aspx?id=2455&newslabel=hn Lycka till.

I am learning Swedish myself. I found some lists here, not sure if they are written or spoken though. http://runeberg.org/admin/dictionary.html But with the 100 most common words you still can not say anything since there are so many words in Swedish, which makes the other list valuable, if you stroll down a little bit you'll see a list of 2000 common words in Swedish. This will certainly take up some time, lycka till!