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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4930 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes  Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 1 of 4 24 October 2015 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In my workplace, I was asked to make a German-English glossary which is categorized by the theme. So far what I have done:
- Directions - Days - Months - Seasons - Locations - Buildings - Weather - Color - Daily Tools and Furnitures - Clothes and Accessories - Occupations - Animals - Food and Beverage - Tastes - Flowers - Metal - Numbers - Mathematical Operation - Measurements - Units - Shapes - Solid figures - Sky Objects - Punctuations - Zodiacs - Animal Body Parts - Parts of Plants - Abbreviations - Vehicles - Sports - Musics - Body Parts - Office Tools - Vehicle Parts Problem is, it still didn't reach the amount of target page. And we can't add anything into the existing category since they have been layouted in the book. Do you have any suggestions what new categories should I add? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4804 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 4 24 October 2015 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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May I ask what is the nature of the desired outcome? There are many already existing glossaries, vocab books, and wordlists of various kinds, so it is a bit hard to imagine what kind of result do you need and get ideas. What should the user gain from the wordlists? The target is general public, your colleagues going to German branch of your company, students going to exchanges, immigrants starting their life in the country,...?
My ideas so far: Food and Beverages 2 Food and Beverages 3 ... you get the idea. Or, if you need to make new wordlists, you can expand on the subjects already touched For example: Mathematical Operations, Measurements, Units, that obviously calls for Physics, or even Mechanics, Electricity... No need to go into too much scientific detail, but it is extremely useful to know the basic terms vast majority of natives knows and sometimes uses. Or Flowers + Parts of Plants: you can add Gardening, Agriculture Daily Tools and Furniture and Food and Beverage: Cooking Utensils, Household Maintenance,... Color + Clothes and Accessories: Materials One thing I've noticed: Most thematic vocabularies, dictionaries and wordlists I'v seen shared one mistake. They were quite exhaustive when it came to nouns (which is great, you need tons of those) but very poor when it came to the verbs related to the cathegories, adjectives, adverbs and so on. But you trully need those as well. Edited by Cavesa on 24 October 2015 at 5:52pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4804 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 4 24 October 2015 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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ah, posted double: on both forums. I'll repost there, since it is a more alive place, if you don't mind
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4930 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 4 of 4 24 October 2015 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's really a good idea. I can add solid, liquid, gas, etc.
It's OK. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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