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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries) 1st Edition

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The only up-to-date frequency dictionary of Spanish currently available, this is an invaluable tool for all learners of Spanish that provides a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language.

Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the Dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes to ensure maximum ease of access to the information and efficiency of use.

All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence and, where applicable, an indication of major register variation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics, such as animals, weather, materials, and family terms.

A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work

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    0415334292
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    978-0415334297
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    December 6, 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.85 x 0.67 x 9.68 inches
  8. Print length
    296 pages
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Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Has published numerous articles on historical syntax and syntactic and lexical variations in Spanish and Portuguese, linguistic databases, and corpus linguistics. Creator of the Corpus del Espanol (www.corpusdelespanol.org), a 100-million word corpus of Spanish

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (December 6, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415334292
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415334297
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.85 x 0.67 x 9.68 inches
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Linda B
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely fantastic; this is how you should study vocabulary
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2012
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This book represents, in my opinion, the best way to study Spanish vocabulary because it's so efficient. You have the top 5,000 Spanish words ordered by frequency, meaning if you begin at #1 and go on from there, you're learning words in the right order--meaning, the ones that you are most likely to need when reading, listening to or speaking Spanish.

Here's an example of how powerful this method is. The authors make use of a 20,000,000 word corpus, and show how many times each word appears within that corpus. Believe it or not, the top 10 words (with el, la, etc. as one word) account for 7,014,177 words within that corpus--so 35% of the text overall! And by reaching the top 50, you will have covered over 50% of the corpus, or 10,161,171 words. In other words, half of the Spanish you will ever speak, or read, or hear may be represented just in that list. However, they also are kind enough to provide thematic vocabulary lists that cover animals, parts of the body, food, clothes, sports, the weather, professions and more. And as if that weren't enough, they also rank the words by their parts of speech at the end, allowing you to study the most common nouns or adjectives, for example.

Unfortunately, often Spanish textbooks will give you thematic lists as your main vocabulary builder. For example, suppose that (as I did) you have a lesson on family words. Well, only 6 family-related words (hijo, padre, madre, etc.) can be found within the top 1,000 Spanish words. Why should beginning students have to learn words like abuela (#2,408) or sobrino (#3,593)? Likewise, the most frequent specific clothing word in Spanish, traje (suit), is ranked at #1,710. Again, it's plain silly for beginning students to learn zapato (1,932) or camiseta (#4,427) when there are far more important words out there.

What I did, and what I recommend to any beginning Spanish student, is to go through the first 1,000 words and learn them. You cover a massive, massive chunk of the Spanish language in doing so. I feel great knowing that I've studied the top thousand words that I would need to use in Spanish, at least according to their list. Ultimately I'd like to cover the next 500, or even up to #2000 or more.

There is one little quirk about some of these Routledge frequency dictionaries, including the Spanish dictionary. They adjust the raw frequency ratings based on how well it's represented across the sources; e.g. if a word is common in one element of the corpus but rare in many others, they reduce its ranking. While they're smart people and this makes sense, I would perhaps prefer that they stick with the raw frequency (as they do with the German dictionary) and call it a day.

I enjoy these dictionaries so much that I now own the German and French dictionaries as well. This is a brilliant and extremely efficient way to learn vocabulary. I believe it's absolutely worth the price.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the BEST tool for BUILDING VOCABULARY that is out there!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011
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In my five years of speaking Spanish at a fluent level I have never found one book that enabled me to build my vocabulary so EFFICIENTLY! I am preparing to become a judicial interpreter and I felt like I needed to memorize the whole dictionary in order to pass the exams, but in studying randomly I ended up learning how to say things like "hovercraft" that I doubt I will really need to know for anything...ever. I was left thinking, "uhhh, this just isn't practical!" This book however, IS PRACTICAL! I have never seen anything like it and I can't recommend it enough! My only word of caution, particularly for those who are just starting out: take the synonyms with a grain of salt. Right now I just opened it up and the first entry I found with synonyms is "habitación," and it lists "room, bedroom, habitat". Um, true, "habitación" could mean any of those contextually, but as a general rule (for me) room is cuarto, habitación is bedroom, and habitat is hábitat. You'll figure it out as you go, and differentiating between appropriate synonyms is a marker of proficiency & professionalism. I am just saying that if you are a perfectionist, you will want to research the synonymous entries a bit and organize them in your head in order to communicate ideas in their most contextually appropriate sense. Learning another language well is truly a daunting task, but having the right resources makes a HUGE difference - this book is the best tool for building useful vocabulary that I have ever found in almost a decade of searching. Solid 10, 5 stars, two thumbs, etcetera!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Such a smart approach!
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2013
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The concept of this book is brilliant. Majority of book is Frequency Index of 5000 most common words in Spanish, in order. Within this section are really interesting extra boxes of frequency info by topic (example: Animals, and the top 50 most common animal words are given in order). After the Frequency Index, an Alphabetical Index and Part of Speech Index is each given, translations appear for all entries.

Fantastic for Spanish teachers and learners alike (although college or adult learners would probably get the most from this, not sure high school students would benefit from it on its own). I will be using this in adapting my curriculum for my middle school Spanish students. We do not use a textbook so I am lucky enough to be able to bring in resources and get creative. By focusing more on the most frequently used words in Spanish, I'm hoping they will experience understanding Spanish in "the real world" more quickly.
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arty9
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018
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Fantastic. After working my way through this book and memorizing the vocab, I am able to understand about 80-90% of what I read, like when reading a news article or something. A great resource for those who are pursuing fluency but don't want to waste time learning words that are uncommon and therefore not very useful. Only complaint is that the binding seems to be sub-par, a few pages came out after just a week or two. Not a big deal, I just stuck them back in.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I wish they showed you how to pronounce the words like in dictionaries.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2013
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I absolutely love this book. Learning the vocuabulary of a language based on word frequencies is brilliant ! The only attribute that would make this book better would be if they included a pronunciation guide at the beginning of the book and then gave some type of phonetic transcription of each word like they do in dictionaries, so that a new language learner can know how to correctly pronounce the words they are studying. As of right now , one has to already have complete knowledge of how all the sounds of the language are pronounced before one can study from this book.
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Bethany
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource book for teaching or learning Spanish
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016
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Excellent resource book for teaching or learning Spanish. This book is a long waited and much needed addition to the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language. If your a Spanish teacher you NEED to incorporate the knowledge from this book into your teaching. If your learning Spanish this book is very helpful for focusing your learning on the most common vocabulary first.

You cannot find this information on the internet. This book is in my opinion, invaluable.
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DaraghM
2.0 out of 5 stars Content Good. Print Quality Poor
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2012
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I would give this book 4 stars for the content. However, the print quality in the edition I received is very poor. I also have the French equivalent and the print quality is fine. The quality of the print makes the grey boxes almost unreadable and the main text is hard to decipher. It almost looks like a photocopy of another book, which is very odd, as the preview on Amazon looks fine.
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