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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6454 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 9 of 47 13 July 2009 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Sprachbund Octoglot Newbie Denmark Joined 5640 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Spanish, French, Dutch Studies: Italian, Latin, Arabic (classical), Russian | Message 10 of 47 13 July 2009 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a lot!
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6280 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 11 of 47 14 July 2009 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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The ISBNs are:
ISBN 0-415-13791-8 ISBN 0-415-13792-6 It was published by Routledge in London and New York in 1996. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5917 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 12 of 47 14 July 2009 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've used it to measure progress but never for actual study (cause I don't do wordlists, flashcards, etc. - ever), not really in an ongoing sort of way, I just skim over them to see how many of the most important words I've learned. If something I don't know is high up on the list I'll look it up but that's about it. If you're into memorizing words just like that then by all means go for it, but context, input and of course a decent course will take care of so much of it for you, and you'll have more fun doing it that way than just sitting down with a long list (imho). I wouldn't want to start that way - especially when it comes to Hungarian, Assimil's course is great! So I'd say use it to check yourself, once you feel like you know a fair bit it'll be rewarding and worthwhile to have a glance at a list and see how far down the list you can get before you see more unfamiliar than familiar words. It can be fun that way, watch the list of your own knowledge grow.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6280 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 13 of 47 14 July 2009 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Frequency lists can help with the problem of knowing which, out of the thousands upon thousands of words in an L2 you potentially might learn, are actually worth learning at an early stage.
If you are learning a language in part through literature, you don't necessarily pick up a current vocabulary. One of the first German words I learned at university was Antlitz, which means "countenance", and is roughly as common as its English translation, ie. not very. But I was reading a 19th century German novel and it was on one of the first pages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6150 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 14 of 47 20 July 2009 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
I had never tried it until today when I read your post, but I am finding it pretty interesting and helpful. Thanks for giving me the idea! Edited by ellasevia on 20 July 2009 at 12:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6150 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 15 of 47 23 July 2009 at 2:23am | IP Logged | ||
Where did you find one for Portuguese? Could I have the link? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6280 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 16 of 47 24 July 2009 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are books published by Oleander, called Arabic Key Words and Latin Key Words. They give 2,000 words considered to be the most common. There may be other languages offered, these are the two I saw in a visit to Foyles.
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