crosslaa01 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4281 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 15 28 May 2013 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone, I have been looking for a comprehensive German frequency list or dictionary
but I haven't had much luck. I found a couple of 1 thousand word lists but these included
the same word conjugated differently. I wondered if anybody knows of some good
comprehensive frequency lists/dictionaries? Thanks in advance.
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fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4525 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 2 of 15 28 May 2013 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
Langenscheidt has a dictionary of 4000 most frequent German words. The words are divided
into categories like life, human body, education etc. And then each category has 2 sub-
groups for ranking between 1-2000 and 2001-4000 . This is more likely a vocabulary study
book because it contains also example sentences for every single word.
Edited by fireballtrouble on 28 May 2013 at 2:01pm
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crosslaa01 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4281 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 3 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for your reply, I've heard of the book before, have you used it yourself? if so
how did you find it?
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fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4525 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 4 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
I'm using it, I find it helpful. I think words are chosen really well. It can be useful
if you feel a gap for your vocab, especially in order to ensure yourself to be confident
of your passive "word count".
My reason that I use this book is that I'm a false beginner, I have been learning German
with assimil and I need my vocab lack to be compensated. Resolving the gender&plural form
learning problem, too. But if you are a learner who definitely needs to see words in
reading texts to learn them, or if you are an audio learner, it can be boring :)
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crosslaa01 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4281 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 5 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
It sounds like I'm in a similar position to you, I'm using assimil as well and trying to
find words to put into my "goldlist". Thanks for the advice I'll look into buying this
book now.
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crosslaa01 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4281 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 6 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:30pm | IP Logged |
I forgot to ask, what is the title of the book? Langenscheidt seem to have a few
different ones, it's not Deutsch als Fremdsprache is it?
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fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4525 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 7 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
It's "Basic German Vocabulary"
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crosslaa01 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4281 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 8 of 15 28 May 2013 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
Oh yes I see it now, thanks!
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