Yes, a lemma is the simplest form or base form of a word.

是，词元指是某个词最简或最基本形式。

And good to know I just need to learn about 800 words, or what he calls lemmas.

很高知道我只需要学习大约800个词，或者那样，词元。

For example, with English, I would suggest if you learn the 800 most frequent lemmas-which is a word and its inflections-that will account for about 75 percent of all of the English language.

以英语为例，我会建议如果你学习了800个最常见词元——这指是一个词以及它曲折变化——这样就占据了所有英语语言75%。