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| KCor Groupie United States Joined 5010 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes  | Message 1 of 9 02 August 2011 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not aware of anyone having posted something similar to this, but I assume it might
still be useful to some other people. I'm at a point where all I want to do is read in German now in order to expand vocabulary and become more acquainted with the flow of speech. However, when I read I have a tendency to get caught on words I don't recognize and want to stop to look them up immediately before I proceed. This surely is disruptive when it comes to my reading and I'd really like to improve the flow. This got me wondering about how I could do such a thing and I came up with an idea. The majority of my reading is from .PDF eBooks downloaded from the internet, so I take that .PDF file and use a word frequency counter (http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/PDF-Word-Count-Freque ncy-Statistics-Software- Download-69915.html <-- Shareware version, but there are plenty to be found with Google) to establish the most reoccurring words in the text. I then take those most frequently used words and memorize their meaning. After that I'm ready to go. ---------- Maybe this is already a rather common method for some of you, but I just thought of it and figured it may be useful for some other people out there. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wompi Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4958 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: German*, Spanish, English Studies: Czech | Message 2 of 9 02 August 2011 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice trick :) thanks.
Haven´t thought about this yet. I think this combines well with the word lists method from Iverson. If you take the common words you still don´t know and memorize these, you can then also be asure that the words get frequently repeated during reading. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 9 02 August 2011 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you tried using parallel texts and/or pop-up dictionaries? Both address the same problem, in a way I find much less painful.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 4 of 9 03 August 2011 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think this is a great idea. You could do the same with news articles before reading them.
I wanted to do something like this a long time ago with Hindi, but at the time I couldn't find any free word counting software. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5233 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 5 of 9 04 August 2011 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know of a program that can do this with Chinese characters?
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| Wompi Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4958 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: German*, Spanish, English Studies: Czech | Message 6 of 9 04 August 2011 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I´ve tried this also with Czech but it seems that the program has Problems if the chars are not ANSI. Like č, š etc.
Did I do anything wrong? Edited by Wompi on 04 August 2011 at 8:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KCor Groupie United States Joined 5010 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes | Message 7 of 9 04 August 2011 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | ||
No, that particular program I linked won't recognize umlauts either. A quick Google search will easily turn up some better programs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5830 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 8 of 9 04 August 2011 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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If anyone finds a good one for Mac, let me know, I did some searching and found an OK one but it also can't handle
special characters like the esperanto ĉ, ŝ, ŭ. :/ I didn't test it on Japanese but don't expect it could handle it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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