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| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5917 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 47 24 July 2009 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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In case anyone's interested: in addition to the 1000-word list for Italian on Wikipedia, there is also an unformatted list of 70k+ words from TV and movie subtitles here.
There same link has the same thing for Spanish and German - the German list goes up to almost 400k words!! Edited by Lizzern on 24 July 2009 at 2:56pm 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 18 of 47 24 July 2009 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for those! Too bad they aren't formatted... Also a bit annoying is how they include proper names on the list. Edited by ellasevia on 24 July 2009 at 3:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sofiane17 Newbie Algeria Joined 5624 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: French, English | Message 19 of 47 02 August 2009 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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hello
where can I find the most common words on German 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 20 of 47 02 August 2009 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Look up frequency lists in Wiktionary. There is a range of lists for languages, including German.
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| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6726 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 21 of 47 03 August 2009 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Liz, Thanks for your post! I'm sorry for not responding earlier, I did not see your post until now for some reason. I agree with your message :) I've actually been studying Hungarian for about 3 years now and consider myself somewhere in the ballpark of basic fluency (I have been 'assessed' by friends who say I'm around intermediate, but I'm not so certain about that!). I've worked through FSI and Assimil and a number of other programs (Teach Yourself & Colloquial, Pimsleur etc). I also work with a teacher once a week. I read, watch DVDs, listen to music... all of those things using authentic materials. I just wanted to have a look at the top 3000 words and learn any I didn't know. 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 22 of 47 03 August 2009 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, basic fluency in Hungarian would just be a dream... And is, I guess, which is the problem. I might get back to it again though after I finish Italian!
Go for it :-) Liz 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6057 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 23 of 47 03 August 2009 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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These vocabulary books from the
German 'lex:tra' series seem pretty good. I've got the DAF (German) version, and there's English, French and Spanish as well, which would all have 4000 vocabulary words in German with the counterpart and an example sentence in the target language. According to their blurb, 4000 words are enough to understand 95% of any given text and to be able to use a language at a high level, and their list is based (for German at least) is based on a 'new, more scientific sample'. I haven't really used it yet, but I'm pleased to have it on the bookshelf. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| draoicht Groupie Ireland Joined 6321 days ago 89 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 47 04 August 2009 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||
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For Spanish there is "A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish" by Mark Davies
Link Product Description from Amazon ”A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish is an invaluable tool for all learners of Spanish providing a list of the 4,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 20-million word corpus which is evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency based list plus alphabetical and part of speech indexes. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence plus an indication of major register variation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics.” It says 4000 but it actually has 5000. Interesting paper here from Mark Davies where he says that a vocabulary of the top 3000 words would allow you to understand 88.2% of non-fiction, 89.6% of fiction and 94% of speech. Link 1 person has voted this message useful |
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