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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6157 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 1 of 19 06 October 2007 at 8:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Right now I feel very frustrated about language learning in general, because I want to start studying russian (or japanese), but I constantly fail on the first step.
I have started to believe that I am the kind of person who would benefit from learning vocab from word lists before I start to read texts and articles etc. (I've already tried the latter without any success). I also have a hard time finding good words and their correct translations. Since my current abilities are very limited I find it hard to extract common words from web sites. So my humble question is if anyone here has russian or japanese word lists with high frequency words. I really don't want to be a lazy idiot who wants somebody else to do the hard word for me. But if you have a word list, and if you would like to share it, I would be infinitely grateful! Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Thomas Newbie Japan rhinospike.com Joined 6059 days ago 38 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Swedish | Message 2 of 19 06 October 2007 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a word list for the JLPT 4 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). It's in alphabetical order. You might want to shuffle the words up when memorizing.
http://www.spurrymoses.com/jlpt/4/jlpt4_vocab-list.html The JLPT 3 word list is here: http://www.spurrymoses.com/jlpt/3/jlpt3_vocab-list.html Level 4 is more basic than Level 3 Edited by Thomas on 06 October 2007 at 8:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kveldulv Senior Member Italy Joined 6753 days ago 222 posts - 244 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian* | Message 3 of 19 06 October 2007 at 9:21am | IP Logged | ||
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And here's a word list for Russian http://www.artint.ru/projects/frqlist/frqlist-en.asp
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6072 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 4 of 19 06 October 2007 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
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In 1996, Routledge published a Russian Learners' Dictionary by Nicholas Brown that is essentially a 10,000 word frequency list. I have found this very useful. It was published in London and New York.
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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6157 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 5 of 19 08 October 2007 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the links! This is great.
William Camden: That dictionary does indeed look useful. I'll buy it later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6072 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 6 of 19 08 October 2007 at 10:32am | IP Logged | ||
Russian has been relatively well supplied with frequency lists over the years, perhaps because the language lends itself to analysis like that (I have yet to see a German frequency list, for example). The problem is deciding what a word is. The texts used to sample words can skew things a bit. Even in the case of Brown's excellent work, words he thinks of as relatively low frequency (in the 8,000-10,000 range) sometimes seem to me more common than the position would suggest. But it is definitely worth ordering. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Redwolf Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6343 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Danish Studies: Spanish, French, Arabic (Written), Italian, Icelandic, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 7 of 19 13 October 2007 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is another frequency list: http://www.learnrussianfree.com/
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6064 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 8 of 19 16 October 2007 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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This site has vocabulary for all 4 JLPT levels, as well as common words not found in the JLPT lists. http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/
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