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| yong321 Groupie United States yong321.freeshe Joined 5338 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes  Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 17 April 2015 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Could anybody recommend a Japanese word frequency list with English translation for each word? Top 100, 500, 1000, or more words, any one is fine. I do need the English translation on the side. Thanks very much!
I find this http://www.offbeatband.com/2010/12/the-most-commonly-used-ja panese-words-by-frequency/ The lists are very good but without translation, they're not very useful to a beginner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4145 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 7 17 April 2015 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps try Epwing2Anki?
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4464 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 3 of 7 17 April 2015 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language
Routledge Frequency Dictionaries 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5276 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 7 17 April 2015 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Agreed with Medulin. I have rather liked Routledge Frequency Dictionaries.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4461 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 7 18 April 2015 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
So how do you know they're very good :-) Somewhat more seriously, why do you want a list of words? If you are learning from a set of textbooks, I'd make (or look for) lists of the vocabulary that the textbooks use, as that's what you really need right now. (I use Anki to handle learning vocabulary, but there are plenty of other methods available). Otherwise you could look at the memrise.com JLPT N5, N4 and N3 courses (in that order). The JLPT is the Japanese language proficiency test. I found it pretty useful to help me keep on top of my studies. You don't need to do the exams: the vocabulary itself is pretty useful and supplements my text books (Minna No Nihongo) quite nicely. As for the original lists, even though they don't have a translation, you can copy+paste any word into an online dictionary (such as tangorin.com) and see the word in kana (so you can pronounce it) and a translation. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Yrek Pentaglot Newbie Poland Joined 3383 days ago 34 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Polish*, Japanese, Korean, English, Mandarin Studies: Vietnamese Studies: Hungarian, Mongolian | Message 6 of 7 26 June 2015 at 2:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Not exactly what you want but
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/ It's jlpt list (10 000 words) and another list of common words. On the website you can look up the word in a dictionary and see example sentences, but not all links work (Jim Brenn is down). I think you can also find these lists in shared anki sets. Edited by Yrek on 26 June 2015 at 2:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4593 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 7 of 7 27 June 2015 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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If what you are after are frequency lists, I second Medullin's post. The Routledge Frequency Dictionary is awesome.
I also have the list you found, and it's very useful, but it's been sourced from light novels. Since light novels target a younger demographic, you'd find a lot of common usage words, especially towards the beginning. All you have to do is copy/paste the words in an online dictionary and you'd have your meanings. Tangorin and Jisho are good places to start. Rikaichan/Rikaisama are also browser pop-up dictionaries that you could find useful. Jpod101 I think has a 2000-4000 frequency list, but it probably require a paid subscription, if that's something you're willing to do. If you use a textbook, or something like Assimil, as dampingwire said, the individual chapters have word lists. Assimil have a glossary at the end of its volumes, with all the words used in the book in alphabetical order, as well as their meanings. The Memrise site, and the site Yrek mentioned, both have JLPT lists. Add to that the Tanos website. Here's the link. He also has kanji and grammar points and a lot of very useful tips. And shared Anki decks have a lot of frequency lists. However, I'm not sure how it is now since they removed a ton of decks based on copyright grounds. Might be worth checking the Anki shared decks page and see if you find anything interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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