Quite misleading. This is just an explanation of how he assembled a word list to memorize - the top 1000 unique words used in two TV shows. Making word lists is not even close to the hardest thing about learning a language quickly, and 1000 words is not really a working vocabulary.<p>Additionally, this does not handle <i>most</i> of the things you'll find annoying about assembling word lists. Imagine doing the same thing with English - you'll probably find "eat", "eating", "ate", "eaten", "buy", "bought", "buying", "buys" all in the top N "words", but that's hugely redundant information.<p>Another issue I've encountered when doing this sort of thing is that often you get words that have multiple meanings, and without actually understanding the context, you don't know which one is the common meaning, and most common words are <i>hugely</i> overloaded - you can't get a proper gestalt understanding of the concepts represented by a word just from reading the (often complicated) dictionary entry.<p>I'm very sympathetic to this kind of thing, since I've done similar things many, many times, but I think the author way over-sells what's happening here, and is likely to run into many problems with this in the future.