Er no thanks, that really is just a list. But then that's just where
language teaching was in the 1940s. Things have come on a bit since then.
Lists with brains (ie organised by cognate, stem, or in meaning groups
a la Louw Nida) can be a very helpful language tool at the beginning stage
(what the British used to call O-levels). For learning a modern language
most learners benefit from these vocabulary builders which give the core
1000 words which enable one to start to walk rather than crawl. There's
nothing wrong with getting core vocabulary under the belt in a methodical
way e.g. I bought Dr Liaw Yock Fang's _Indonesian Vocabulary 1001 Essential
Words_ last year; sounds really Mickey Mouse right? Yet three months later
I was reading novels. Okay admittedly it's an easy language but the point
stands, learning vocabulary by cognate is a lot less painful than looking
up in the dictionary every word that hits you "as you meet it" in the first
real text.
The "lists" by Robert Van Voorst (blessed by Raymond Brown) and Thomas
Robinson (blessed by Larry Hurtado) are as good or better than anything
available for mainstream languages. Though they seem to have now been
eclipsed by Warren Trenchard's Students Complete Vocabulary Guide
($9.95 CBD)... this is what I will be giving for Xmas presents.
Are they mentioned on the Little Greek page? I can't remember
Cheerio
Steven