The first module works with basic vocabulary, required for the understanding of simple questions and elaboration of small sentences and dialogues.

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They inject the narrative of humanity with a fresh shot of adrenaline, and they reinvent the basic vocabulary of a cultural tradition.

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Authorities took Lynn Cameron to a hospital, where she was discovered to have only a basic vocabulary of 30-40 words, according to Smith.

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The classes have a basic level and are focused on the elementary and fundamental notions for the touristic service, stimulating the learning of a basic vocabulary for a better communication with the foreign visitor.

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Unlike archaeological radiocarbon dating based on the fixed rate of decay of the carbon-14 isotope, there is simply no fixed rate of decay of basic vocabulary, which would allow us to date ancestral proto-languages.

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Basic money vocabulary is a good place to start.

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Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.

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