alt Hacker News> This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words!
Depends what you mean by "proficient". I currently know ~6k Spanish words and would hesitate to self-apply that word. Others might, but damn languages are hard.
> Depends what you mean by "proficient".
I thought I was pretty clear - you could understand at the level of television. Television scripts are dumbed down.