When you are learning a new language, what consists most of the vocabulary?
Nouns, verbs or adjectives. I'd say noun.
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SW-User
Yeah. Nouns are often the easiest to learn bc they're the most fixed compared to verbs that get conjugated. Also to adjectives which are gender/number specific in many languages.
jarvis919 · 26-30, M
@SW-User yes. there is no linguistic dispute about this. it's not a mysterious question. nouns are less abstract, verbs are more abstract. nouns are necessary first in order to use verbs. children use nouns first, and the General Service List has more nouns than verbs. this has been known and documented for decades, and polyglots and linguists learning languages that have never been studied before always begin with nouns. it's something well understood and universal.
article in journal of language: "Verbs express relations among nouns, and which relation a particular speaker has in mind is rarely accessible from observation alone. Hence, verbs are learned in the context of a vocabulary of known nouns". nouns come first.
in a way it doesn't matter because a person should learn a lot of vocabulary quickly in the beginning. the first 2000 as quickly as possible. nouns, verbs, adjectives, everything. but if a person was learning more slowly, or has to use the langauge immediately, the answer is nouns.
article in journal of language: "Verbs express relations among nouns, and which relation a particular speaker has in mind is rarely accessible from observation alone. Hence, verbs are learned in the context of a vocabulary of known nouns". nouns come first.
in a way it doesn't matter because a person should learn a lot of vocabulary quickly in the beginning. the first 2000 as quickly as possible. nouns, verbs, adjectives, everything. but if a person was learning more slowly, or has to use the langauge immediately, the answer is nouns.
