Learning Spanish？ Improve your LISTENING with ＂The Devoted Friend＂ ｜ Part 1

"The Devoted Friend" is a short story in easy Spanish, based on Oscar Wilde's classic. This Spanish version was written using a list of the 1,000 most common words in conversational Spanish, so it's meant for learners who have reached a very basic level of the language. The story is 2,436 words long, and there are only 20 unique words outside the list of the top 1,000. Only one word is outside the list of the top 5,000: invierno, but even this word is not really rare in Spanish. This means that every single word in this story is totally worth learning. See below for more statistics.

**VIDEO CHAPTERS**
00:00 Common words
02:21 First listen: No subtitles
04:31 Explanations
08:09 Second listen: Spanish subtitles
10:19 About translations
11:46 Third listen: Spanish + English subtitles
13:56 Conclusion

Most "comprehensible input" videos and "short stories for beginners" books just throw random words at you with no sense of priority. However, if you want to learn Spanish in an efficient way, you should focus all your energies on the most common words in conversational Spanish, the ones you'll hear all the time. This is the reason why this story is laser-focused on super common words, the ones among the top 1,000.

**COMPLETE STATISTICS**

*Total running words in the story: 2,446 words

*Total unique words: 460

*Unique words among the top 1,000: 440

*Unique words among the top 5,000 but not among the top 1,000: 19
arroz
caballo
caja
canal
dormido
escalera
flores
funeral
generoso
jardín
Juan
lluvia
madera
pedazo
recuperar
saco
techo
tocó
vender

*Unique words outside the top 5,000: 1
invierno