You do not need every word. You need the right few hundred, in the right order. This is the map: what to learn first, and what it buys you.
Function words and the verbs of daily life. Half of everything anyone says to you.
See the hundred →The next four hundred: home, work, feelings, time. Enough to hold a conversation.
Browse the set →Where you stop translating in your head and start reading for pleasure.
See the list →Start the First 100 as a deck. Ten a day, drilled the way you will actually use them.