Vocabulary sources and licence

The English Together starter bank contains 3,000 entries: the 2,809 headwords of the New General Service List 1.2 and 191 additional everyday words and expressions.

Source and attribution

Based on the New General Service List by Charles Browne, Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Original NGSL project and downloads. Source accessed 22 October 2026.

Changes for English Together

German translations, simple English definitions and usage notes were generated for English Together. The selection was expanded with 191 entries, alphabetised and formatted. Source FALSE/TRUE entries were normalised to false/true. Definitions explain selected meanings; words can have other meanings.

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